The Sudbrock Scoop

A Christmas Blessing

As we were driving home from Mannheim Sunday afternoon, we were listening to a tape of short Christmas stories - the kind that are published in Reader's Digest. Several of them told about people who were able to be a real blessing to someone in need on Christmas Day and I began praying about that. I really want to be a blessing to someone in need this year at Christmas. I have no idea who, what or where, but I am praying that God uses our family in a miraculous way to be a blessing to someone.

We have tried in years past to have some kind of special outreach from our church here in Wittenberg for the needy, but in a socialist country, there really aren't very many needy people. They are real hard to find! We continue to pray for something that God would have us do.

One dear friend shared what her family does each year, and I think we will do it this year as well. On Christmas Eve on their way home from church, they stop at a hotel or gas station or nursing home or hospital or somewhere where people are working and don't have the privilege of having the evening off of work, and they sing and play their instruments for them and share homemade baked goods. - So they go Christmas Caroling as a family before they go home to open their gifts. I would like to try that this year.

Any other good ideas?