We are blessed to announce the arrival of our dear little bundle- Christiana Lois Jacobson!  She is the fifth such package Ashley and Andrew have received and so is welcomed by three brothers and a sister too.  She arrived Monday, March 2 (after we all held our breath through Leap Year Day), at 5:08 p.m.  She was 21″ and weighed 7# 14oz.

Little Christiana is named for the heroine of John Bunyan’s A Pilgrim’s Progress, part II.  In the shadow of her humble, homey life, she leads her children on the way of the King toward the Celestial City.  Christiana, we pray this for you always… that you will hear the King’s voice at an early age and will walk sure and steadily toward his Kingdom and that God would make you a bringer of pilgrims, helping many along the path to the King.