Mid-week review - week 50

The time for Christmas Parties is here! Yesterday was the first big party. It was the Christmas party for employees. 60-70 people were gathered from all over Latvia: from Liepaja in the west, Bauska in the south, Seda in the north and Daugavpils in the very southeast corner of Latvia.

The staff at Headquarters had arranged a good program with music, singing, games and a devotion. On the picure above you can see the Staff Songsters, and below a brass quartett playing Christmas Carols, illustrating what is happening all over the world at the Christmas Kettles....

...and below you can see the employees with a improvised choir, tamburine brigade and a dance.

During the Christmas party a delivery from "Humanitarian aid" in Sweden arrived with 350 Christmas gifts to be handed out to children in the different corps in Latvia.

In Latvia there is also a national christian radio, braodcasting non-stop day and night. Last Tuesday Ruth and myself were invited to make two programs. The first program is an interview about ourselves and the Salvation Army work in Latvia. The second program is about "Hope" and we were asked to speek from the first three verses in Isiah 61.


Tomorrow is time for the next Christmas party. The families we visit in our outreach ministry are invited for a Christmas dinner. We expect a full Hall again.

/PB