Our Christmas children’s outreach event was a huge
success. Thanks to everyone that donated
to make this special day possible! We
hosted 80 children and their families.
Each child and their family received a simple lunch and enjoyed games
with a clown. They all heard a simple
presentation of the gospel, and each child went home with a small gift, bag of
candy and cookies, and a piece of Passover bread (a Christmas tradition here.) (Passover bread is sweet bread with raisins
and sprinkles.) There were a lot of
happy kids!
It was also a blessing to see the people of our mission
serving the Lord eagerly. They helped to
decorate, make and serve the lunch, organize gifts, and pass them out. Then they all stayed to help us clean up
afterward. It’s exciting to see our
friends serving their community gladly.
We also discussed our plans for Christmas Eve. Everyone from our mission will be gathering
at our house to have Christmas dinner together.
What an incredible honor to be able to have more than 30 Ecuadorian
friends here to celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior, after being here
for only 3 short months. God is
good! May you focus on the greatest gift
at this time of year – Christ gave us himself!
Merry Christmas!
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