The Ziska Family

Dear Friends,

We want to wish you a joyful and blessed Christmas as well a wonderful new year!!

After a being sick much of November (bronchitis & 10 days of laryngitis – tough while doing “deputation”) I´m doing well again. My voice is back and the energy levels are back. On Dec. 7 I had my last chemotherapy in Seattle. Once again, I am having only mild side effects. PTL!!

From Dec. 10- 19 we were in western Illinois visiting churches and friends. On Sunday I delivered my last sermon for these 6 months in the USA, and we made a bunch of visits. (Brenda was still struggling a bit with bronchitis.) Then in the evening it was time to pack the suitcases again.

Yesterday we flew to Atlanta. I have two sisters who live north of the city with their families – i.e. 5 grown children with five grandchildren. We´ll be visiting these families until Friday. Then we fly onto Delaware, where my brother and his wife live. His 4 sons (including 3 wives and one granddaughter) will be gathering there. We´ll spend the Christmas holiday with all of them.

Dear Friends,

We are coming to the close of our time in the Pacific NW. Daniel got back to Vienna already yesterday. On Dec. 7 I get my final chemotherapy here in Seattle. (Presumably the chemo series will be continued in Vienna after the start of the new year.)

Next week Brenda and I fly to Illinois to visit three of our supporting churches in the western part of the state. Then we spend Dec. 19-29 with family members on the East Coast. By Dec. 30 we should be back in Vienna.

As you remember from our presentations in the past months Vienna is both a spiritually needy and humanly attractive place. The latter has once more been documented by a major international agency: 

Vienna: For the 3rd time in a row, the world's Most Livable City