Last night was the GFA staff Christmas party in our new building and was it a blessing! The meat was purchased, but all the rest of the food was prepared by families. 7 gallons of gravy, 40 lbs of potatoes, 20+ pies and lots more. Once you count kids, our home staff has grown a third in the last year and doubled in the last two and a half years. But with all the staff arriving, we're still struggling to keep up with the amazing work that God is doing on the mission field.

An Indian Christian tells of his first Christmas here in Dallas: "It was my first Christmas here in America--and I was as excited and bewildered as any two-year-old child at the wonder of it all.
I had never seen a Christmas like this before! In many parts of my native India, December 25 passes without fanfare...just another day of bondage to sin, suffering and death--the life without Christ.
You see, in most of Asia there is no Christmas. For billions of people, Christ still has not come. His name, His peace and His redemption through Cavary are not yet known or understood. Most of Asia has yet to hear the good news of Christmas--that Christ came into the world to seek and to save lost sinners.
On the way to church that night, it seemed to me as if the whole nation were Christian. Streets, stores and malls were decorated brightly. Thousands of tired-looking people were filling their cards with bags and boxes of gifts, food and wine for the holidays. Nearly every home had colored lights, decorated trees and even life-size manger scenes telling the Christmas story.
'How these people must love Christ!' I thought. 'What a wonder to live in a country which is saturated with Christians, churches and the Gospel!'"

What a contrast.