Our Christmas in IndiaWe have just completed our first Christmas in India and much is the same except the stores in India don't start selling Christmas items before Halloween (which they don't celebrate) and the weather is balmy with blue skies. The sun is shining brilliantly and the temperature is absolutely perfect. December is quickly becoming our favorite time of the year here. If anyone wants to visit us in India, December is definitely the month to do so. We'd love to have you come for Christmas!
We have had many Christmas experiences and are posting a few photos so you can see some of the events of our lives during these past few days. So here goes...
We enjoyed time at Divya Christian Fellowship on the Sunday before Christmas and again on Christmas morning. . 
The day after Christmas we had special company from friends we had met in the States , Sathish & Helen Divakar and their son Jessie and friend Anderson. We had a wonderful day catching up on all the news of the years that had happened since we had been together. We laughed, ate (believe it or not we discovered that people here love fruit cake - plum cake as they call it [pictured below]...a traditional Christmas treat), laughed, played games, laughed some more and thoroughly enjoyed our time together. Old friends are precious and we are thankful for the ones God has given us here in India.
The day after Christmas we had special company from friends we had met in the States , Sathish & Helen Divakar and their son Jessie and friend Anderson. We had a wonderful day catching up on all the news of the years that had happened since we had been together. We laughed, ate (believe it or not we discovered that people here love fruit cake - plum cake as they call it [pictured below]...a traditional Christmas treat), laughed, played games, laughed some more and thoroughly enjoyed our time together. Old friends are precious and we are thankful for the ones God has given us here in India. 
Than came the New Year. We spent New Years Eve with our Divya Christian Fellowship family playing games, singing songs, and watching a video about John Huss (a 15th century martyr) and sharing a meal together. Everyone got home before midnight, and we were thankful to be safely ensconced in our cozy home before all the revelry broke out into the streets.
The morning of January 1st was spent with the seminary guys. We intended to show a video and then have lunch, but the power went out for several hours, so we played games while we waited for the power to come back on (hopefully) and when it finally did the fellows sat down and watched the video while they ate lunch. It was a fun morning that worked out perfectly despite the challenges.
So you see, we have had a wonderful Christmas in India. No matter where we go, our Father gives us friends who are family to us and with them we had great times of fellowship.
