Making and having a Happy Christmas

Life is as hectic as ever as we work towards Christmas day. Christmas has got to be about thinking about others and not just oneself and the family. Christians can't solve all the problems in the world, but they can solve some. People say to us in the UK that it's different for us as we live and work in such a poor area. Whilst it's true that it's different it doesn't mean there aren't needs all around you where you are in the more afluent places of the world. It's a question of attitude, commitment and understanding what Christianity and Christmas really involves.

Thursday saw our Pastor Frank Dyer School here in Patos present the Christmas story for civil servants in the centre of Patos for the 6th year in succession. Just the trip from the outskirts of town to the centre is a major adventure for these poor kids! They did very well and one of the boys who has been very ill asked if he could give his testimony at the end of the play! We said sure, and off he went telling the adults there straight that he was there thanks to the prayers of God's people and that God had healed him. All off his own back from the heart! Beautiful and powerful! PTL!

Yesterday Sacha took her daughters' pediatrician to a poor borough of Patos to give all the children medical check-ups, medication, personal hygiene kits, shoes and toys. Boy what emotion there was there!

I have prepared my sermon for this Sunday in Patos and now we're off up the mountains to inaugurate a playground for very poor rural kids in the Glória community in Imaculada County. Happy Christmas!