Christmas Day: Gifts and the Christmas Story

On Christmas Day we wanted to continue the tradition of Christmas gifts for the kids in our old neighborhood, especially since none of those kids would have a chance to get shoeboxes. So we piled up the baskets of gifts (thank you Barry family!) and headed over to our old neighborhood. A lot of our neighbors there are Muslim so it was a chance for them to hear the story of Christmas even though they don’t celebrate it.

We do this every year and they don’t mind, although we ask the adults permission before telling their kids what we believe about Jesus.

After reading and telling the Christmas story and talking about it, we handed out little gift bags to everyone. There were enough leftover for some of the kids to take some home to siblings who didn’t come. It was a really fun event and my favorite Christmas tradition since moving to Congo.