One Christmas there was an African children’s choir performing at our church, and we took three of them home with us. It was amazing to me to see how they appreciated the smallest things so much, because they had nothing where they came from. It gave me a whole new view of what Christmas is. Christmas isn’t about presents. It’s about having love and hope. It’s about having Christ and His birthday. How many presents we got didn’t mean anything to them. Just to have a great meal on Christmas Day was a big deal to them. It made me reevaluate what Christmas means.
PHIL JOEL:
Seeing snow at Christmas for the first time was very exciting. It made everything look clean. It’s the other way around in New Zealand. It’s summer during Christmas, so we go to the beach and have a barbeque. Here it’s cozy and snug, and you’ve got the tree and it’s all sort of inside and very nice. So I really do enjoy Christmases in the U.S.
REBECCA ST. JAMES:
My coolest Christmas memory is swimming on Christmas Day in Australia. It’s summertime there; it’s hot at Christmas. I have 24 cousins, so we’d swim together and have a big Christmas dinner. On Christmas Day we also had a time of worship where we’d sing Christmas carols and talk about the different things that God had taught us throughout the year. It’s just a really powerful time. My grandfather was a minister, so he leads us in that time of celebrating Jesus, and it’s so encouraging to me to see the heritage he has passed on to us.
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