"For I know the plans I have for you" declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" Jeremiah 29:11 Dear friends, Another year has passed. Usually, during the last days of every year, most people contemplate what happened in the past year and try to envision and plan their next steps. Last year, in my New Year's message , I wrote that "2015 was a year filled with fear and uncertainty." When I composed last year's me ssage, it was a few weeks after Brussels was locked down beca use of fear s of a terrorist attack. Unfor tunately, this became a reali ty when a double bomb attack took place Brussels on the 22nd of March , followed by other terrorist attacks in Nice and more recently in Berlin. Moreover, the humanitarian tragedies that came as a result of conflicts around the world, especially in the Middle East, were also prevalent this year and they are expected to continue to shock...