We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your families (if the Lord allowed).
Many of you have asked what we did for Christmas or how our Christmas went… we hope this helps give you a glimpse of what Christmas was like for us this year…
Christmas (and New Year is celebrated the same) here is a long day and starts early. We have bread for breakfast as a community around 5am (which means Seth gets up way before that to bake it fresh) and then church begins at 7am (Seth teaches Sunday school class then the main service begins once Sunday school is over.)
We added a time of questions and prizes to make Sunday on Christmas more fun. After church was over, we had a big lunch with the community and once everyone had their fill, then everyone was off to the “mandatory siesta”.
Later that night, we have prayer study (as we usually do on Sunday nights), and then a time of prayer. We added a time of questions and prizes for the kids and youth to get them more excited for the night. This ended around 9pm… needless to say, it was a very different and busy Sunday for us this Christmas.
The following day, Monday, we celebrated our Christmas in a sense, called our family, and tried to reflect on the weekend God blessed us with to be a part of… truly, there is no end to ministering here in the bush. We are so thankful to be here!
Happy New Year to you all! 🎉 May the Lord conform us more into His image this next year and may we learn to be better ambassadors of His name in our daily lives. God bless you!
Seth & Nicole Stokes, your feet to the Tiale people
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