Merry Christmas To You All

I grew up in multi-cultural and multi-language background. It amazes me when I found out how many languages spoken in this world! Over 6,000 languages! Can you imagine that?

If you go to Google to find how these people say “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” in any langagues, you will see people say it in so many different ways!

In thise special season, I hope your Christmas will be filled with joy, love, peace and hope from God and may His favor and goodness be yours in this coming New Year!

This is how I say it in languages that I can understand (from the most I can speak & understand to the least):

Slamat Natal deng Taong Baru (Manadonese)

Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru (Indonesian)

Selamet Hari Natal ame Tahun Baru ye (Betawi)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (English)

Merry Christmas lan Sugeng Warsa Enggal (Javanese)

圣诞快乐,新年快乐
Shèngdàn kuàilè, Xīnniàn kuàilè (Mandarin)

Feliz Navidad y Feliz Año Nuevo (Spanish)

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Merry Christmas To You All

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IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE ALREADY!! It seems that the year has just gone by so fast, yet so many things are still on our To-Do lis.

December is not just the end of the year, but it’s the month to get ready for the new beginning, getting ready to step into the New Year! Are you ready? In our every day busyness, we easily get distracted by whatever we are doing and forget the most import an thing of Christmas. I hope, each of us will have time to meditate on the true and real meaning of this big celebration that we all preparing.

It is all about CHRIST. He is the reason of this season, the light that we need to step into 2012, the lamp that shines our path, the one and only guidance we need, the Savior who can save our souls, the reason we live.

Many things have happened in our life, and we are so thankful that with the strength, grace, mercy and favor from God through our Lord Jesus Christ, we are enable to get through all the challenges in 2011. He is faithful and everlasting God!

In September 2011, we had our first interview through Skype call with Wycliffe Recruiter Personnel. Later in October 2011, we started our Application progress and it is still in the progress now. If accepted, then we will go to the Wycliffe HQ office in Orlando, FL, for the 2 weeks – EQUIP Camp in April 2012. Please do pray for this process that we are going through, pray for God’s provision and help. We will give you more updates on this process later.

For about 10 months the local church that we have been going didn’t have a pastor. Struggling in frustration but all trust the Lord to send the right one to pastor and disciple His own people at Grace Baptist Church, Minford. God truly worked in each member’s heart while waiting for His answer. Last month, we received God’s answer! He sent Rob McKinney to be our new Pastor. Last week, God provided them a house just couple houses away from the church. This is an amazing answer and miracle for us. They will move into their new house on December 28th and we will have the first Sunday Service together on January 1, 2012! What a wonderful way to start the year!

We Are Ready For Christmas

Last week challenge from My Memories was the “The Holiday Time,” to share how we get ready for our upcoming Holiday celebrations (5 MORE DAYS to CHRISTMAS!!) and how we are preparing for the Holidays. It’s been CRAZY busy but here’s my layout that I did with my MMS program and all the materials I used, you can find at MyMemories store :

Christ is the reason of the season

Operation World: Reaching Out Through Prayer

All of you might be familiar with Operation World and how this media has been a great tool for all of us in our prayer life. At the end of the year, I would like to encourage each of us to spend time with your family to pray for a nation. Let’s reach out the world through prayer!

You can be part of the team that leading people to pray for nations, to reach out the world through prayer, and to make known God’s glory in nations. More about Operation World, you can:

Follow @OWTips

Find more tips here on OW Facebook page, and more Ideas For Leaders here

Join the Prayer Movement here

Are you still looking for a Christmas gift? Visit Operation World Store for more amazing gift ideas

Here’s a short link to 10 people who has been using the Operation World Book to lead and encourage people to pray for nations:

The Top 10 @OWTips Leaders of 2011

It has been an amazing year of ministry @OWTips. As the GMI team looked back over all of the interaction about prayer and Operation World resources, we were amazed at what God has done. So to celebrate, we thought we would highlight 10 of you who showed loyal and creative leadership in praying for the nations. Please take a moment to read about how praying (and tweeting) for the nations has impacted these 10 faithful prayer partners. As you read these testimonies, pray about how God might be asking you to lead others in prayer for the nations!

Which nation will you pray for at the end of this year?