Christmas Around The World

We just came back from a wonderful Christmas Service at our Church. (By the way, there are over 35 different nations represented in our Church) The program was called Christmas Around The World. It was so amazing. Its hard to explain in words what I felt. The Sanctuary Choir (45 men and women) sang wonderful songs from all over the world. They were all dressed in clothing from their own nationalities. Beautiful Japanese outfits, Korean, Chinese, Indonesian and Filipino. They sang in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German, French and English. The Filipino Choir sang in Tagalog and The Children's Choir sang in English and Spanish. Natalie had so much fun. She loves doing Choir. The most amazing thing was seeing all these different nationalities come together for the same purpose. GOD. A pastor from Hong Kong prayed in Cantonese, we were sang to by a Korean lady who has the same love for God as I do. There were scripture readings by people from the congregation in Italian and South Afrikaans. How wonderful to see it does not matter what we look like and what language we speak. To God we are all the same. Its not about the decorations and the gifts from Santa under the Christmas tree. Its about The Gift! The Gift of the Savior! I understand the excitement about Santa who comes once a year, but I love being able to be excited about God everyday!!!