Dear Loved Ones,
Some of you remember when we lived in Kenya and had huge Christmas preparations culminating with a three-day Christmas musical for our town and hosting a Christmas Open house for up to 200 businesses acquaintances and friends. I suppose in our minds we keep building up to that sort of Christmas and in Botswana the shock and disappointment of ministry at Christmas just leaves us with our mouths open in exclamation!
All around town people have put up decorations in the shops and the malls(! Yes we have them!) have Christmas trees and very skinny Father Christmases. But the actual weekend of Christmas everyone is GONE! Today we had 20 including about 10 or more children! Almost everyone will have left town by tomorrow. Of course, traditionally in Botswana there was no worship of Jesus Christ and people that worked away from their homes in the village all returned there for the holiday time. Usually at Christmas, the temperature is soaring over 100 degrees and people just rest!
We will take this time to do just that REST! The responsibility of the school and the new property has us completely worn out. I can’t believe that I will not even be cooking on Christmas Day. We have been invited to two homes, one of our church members has invited us for lunch and some missionary friends for supper. They have both suggested that we do not bring anything!
This morning, we gave small gift bags with a Christmas puzzle and some stickers and sweets to our church children. We are thankful for a family in one of our supporting churches who sent the gift bags and stickers for us to use.
May each of you have a wonderful Christmas focused on the gift of the Saviour of the Nations!
Reaching the Unreached,
Steve, Pam Derek and Devin
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