A New Season

Greetings from Venilla, Anbalagan and Sridhar,

Happy New Year to all of you. We hope this year will an amazing year. We wanted to take this opportunity to share with you how our month has been. We are so happy that The Daily Bean turned 2 this past month! 

Playing a game at our employee Christmas party

We were able to sit down during our staff meeting and share the goodness of God. God has been so faithful to us, and we have seen him move on our behalf. During the past 2 years, The Daily Bean was able to expand and reach out to more customers! We had an amazing celebration of both our 2 year anniversary and Christmas with our team.

Dinner at Christmas Party

For Anbalagan, from the New Year, God has been teaching him about a season of harvest. He feels that the season of "sowing" is done in his business, and he will begin to see the fruits soon. The verse Psalm 128:2 says: "When you eat the labor of your hands: you shall be happy." Even though it's been tough loosing some of our long-term employees, I am trusting on this verse that the Lord has promised me. I truly believe this year will be a year of harvest for the Daily Bean, and we will see the fruit of our hard work. 

Ice Cream after the Christmas Party at Polar Bear

This month has been a wonderful month for Sridhar. It has been a great season of celebration and sharing the love of Jesus with our employees and families. We were able to take a few days off for Christmas to celebrate with our families. This was Shobha's and my first Christmas together after being married. We celebrated with both of our families, and we were very loved. God's been so gracious to us and His love has continually covered us. Both Shobha and I were able to sit back to take some time and see how God has been walking us through this past year and just be grateful for his hands over our lives.

Group photo

This month has been an awesome month where God's been teaching Venilla about the life of Moses. There are three things I learned from his life. First, Moses was a man of faith. Second, he was humble, and third, he loved God and his people. 
Moses was a man who had a strong faith, and he centred his life on God's promises. Even though he doubted himself so many times, he eventually overcame the doubts. He listened to God and followed him. Moses loved his people even though they fought a lot and questioned Moses on so many things. He was still with them till the end. He rescued them from the Egyptians. He trusted God and his process. In the same way, God has been teaching me to trust Him and His process. He wants us to be faithful to Him and to trust that whatever happens, He will turn it into good.


Prayer Points:

1) For God's grace in this new season in 2020.

2) For the Lord to lead the right employees to us who will commit to working with us for a long time. 

3) That we would have wisdom in managing at the employees. 

4) For God to move in our former landlord's heart to give us the remaining deposit. 

5) That we would be good stewards of what God has blessed us with.