adelaide place baptist church

Christmas is a time for procrastination. We procrastinate about how much we will spend on presents. We hesitate about who is on or off our Christmas card list. We contemplate who we will invite for Christmas dinner, or whether we’ll head for the Maldives and save the hassle.

For millions of people around the world Christmas time is the same as any other time. Its about scratching out survival in a barren dusty land. Whether these people know about Chrismas is a moot point. Even when they do and wholeheartedly believe in Jesus Christ they often have no means to celebrate the birth of their Saviour with any kind of excess. Survival for another year is about the best they can manage.

Many of the major aid agencies such as Oxfam, Sciaf, Tear Fund provide all sorts of ways to make Christmas bearable for the world’s poor. We at Adelaide Place are going to invite the children to make a large Christmas card upon which the church members can write greetings to one another.

However they will have to pay for the privilege and with the money collected we hope to buy a herd of goats through the agency of Christian Aid. That way we don’t need to procrastinate over who to write individual cards to in the church and at the same time give something to the world’s poorest people.