Christmas Eve 2025

Church Christmas Letter 2025

Isaiah 53:3

He is despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid as it were our faces from him, he was despised, and we did not esteem him.

This particular Christmas, our eyes in 2025 perhaps have been open to the pain suffering and heartache that mankind is experiencing. Whether it is what you have seen through media, family members suffering due to health , heartache issues from wayward relatives, or your own church community that’s experienced challenges because of the increasing impact sin is having upon the body of Christ and in many persecuted countries.

What did Jesus experience from His birth? It started at his birth, tribulation difficulty, and not an easy beginning in Bethlehem.

“ Born in a stable where everything seemed to torment him. The manager was a cave, His first Vision was seeing the black walls of a cave, his smelling was impeded by the stench of the dung from the beasts in the stable, Touching. He felt the prickling straw on which he lay. Shortly after His birth, He was forced into Egypt, where he spent several years of his childhood in poverty and misery. His boyhood, an early manhood in Nazareth was passed in hard work and obscurity. And finally in Jerusalem, He died on a cross, exhausted with pain and anguish for each one of us”

His gift to us. He bore those sufferings for us, what broke Jesus heart wasn’t His suffering, but Him seeing all of our suffering because of sin by which mankind has so ungratefully repaid Him for His great love toward us.

Perhaps this Christmas it may be different in a good way. Maybe we’re not thinking about ourselves or the gifts that we can get or all the holiday overwhelming work and sometimes emptiness. Maybe Jesus this year is opening our eyes to something more profound and deeper to live for. He I’m sure is preparing you and me in 2026 to be a year of personal revival and commitment to live for Jesus in a way we’ve never lived before. Our homes our community are country and our world need the gospel of Jesus Christ more than ever. And also, by His Holy Spirit to live life in a deeper and humbler way. To show how much we love Him who first loved us.

We are grateful to be able to be in this local church community with all of you! Truly blest by your prayer, love and sacrificial gifts that make this ministry possible. We so pray that this Christmas would be the most amazing time with Christ ever and with one another and your family.