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Sharing the Christmas Story: From reading the living the Gospel

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Mary stayed with Elizabeth and Zechariah for 3 months. They knew that Mary was going to have God’s son, Jesus and they were very excited for her. The Bible even says that the baby inside Elizabeth jumped for joy! Encourage children by reminding them that forgetting to include parts of the story is to be expected the first few times they tell the story.

I love the exposure they are given to the story of Christmas. It’s so simple for kids to understand and so powerful at the same time. Your son will be king of Jacob’s people forever, and his kingdom will never end.” (Luke 1:30-33 NLT) Being semi-illiterate and among the unreached tribes in Kenya, sharing the message of the birth of Jesus is sometimes challenging. That is why we select portions of scripture carefully. I believe it’s important to open your Bible as you talk about it. That way your kids know this story is coming from the true word of God and is different than other Christmas stories they see in fiction books or movies. After 3 months, Mary returned to Nazareth. At this time, Joseph was thinking about not marrying Mary since she was pregnant and he knew he was not the father of her baby.

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Young kids have a hard time differentiating between what is real and what is pretend. So it’s important that you explain that Mary, Joseph, and Jesus really lived. Joseph Agali resides in Nairobi, Kenya and serves on Water4’s team as the Multiply Manager. He uses his passion for discipleship and years of ministry and church planting experience to guide all of Water4’s businesses in how to respectfully, authentically, and effectively engage people with the Gospel after safe water access has been provided and businesses have established themselves as trusted and valued members of the community. So everyone had to go to the town that their family first came from. That meant Joseph and Mary had to travel 70 miles from Nazareth to Bethlehem. However, an angel came to Joseph at night too! The angel of the Lord said, “Joseph son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because what is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit. It can be as simple as finding a Nativity-themed print out online for your children to colour and display or you can make your own Nativity scene using craft items around the house. This can be used to help share the story of that first Christmas day in a Bethlehem stable.

This Advent will be unlike any other, in so far as the actual celebration of Christmas will seem more possible than it did a year ago. How timely to have a book that captures the moment. He said that Mary’s cousin Elizabeth was going to have a son too even though she was old and past the age that women had babies. It was a miracle from God!

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The Magi were so happy to find Jesus! When they got to the home, they bowed down and worshiped Jesus. Another way to experience the story of Jesus’ birth is to watch a movie about it. Of course, anytime you watch a movie, that picture gets in your head and can become reality – especially for children. So it’s important to prepare your children by reading the Bible story first, comparing the movie to the biblical account, and helping your child understand reality compared to artists’ license. Subtitled An Advent adventure through Genesis, Revelation and points in between, it has a full scriptural reach, bringing texts from both the Hebrew Scriptures and New Testament for exploration. The book has been published this year and so is dated as such. It doesn’t start on the first day of Advent but rather 1 December, which this year is a Thursday. Personally I would have preferred it to just say ‘First of December’ etc but maybe I’m being pedantic as obviously it can still be used in any year. Each week focusses on a different aspect of the Christmas story, the themes being; promise, light, mystery, love, peace and hope. Within each week, the days are then broken down to look at the way the Christmas story is shared such as through prophecy, signs or stories. Join us in praying for the work of Joseph and all of our business leaders, storytellers, and the communities to which we’ll share the gospel this Christmas season!

Then the angels left the shepherds and immediately the shepherds went into the town of Bethlehem to find Jesus.She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,because he will save his people from their sins.” The reason many of us do not know the details of the nativity story is that we were never taught how to tell it—or any Bible story. A helpful way to learn the story better is by teaching it to the children in your life. Every Christmas season, Joseph leads these businesses in sharing the Christmas story, reaching out to even the most remote of groups in the process. O ne of the communities is the Digo tribe, who are among the Miji Kenda, living in the South coast of Kenya, where our partner, Freedom Water Solutions, provides clean and safe water. We asked Joseph to share with us about this experience, its challenges and its rewards. Here is what he had to say:

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