Tis the season for graduations here in Costa Rica! Here in Costa Rica the school year is February to December. So the graduations are being celebrated this weekend! We had many youth from our church graduate from high school. Also the kids who graduate from 6th grade and will now start a new part of their lives as they go from elementary to high school.
This is a great time of year when people from all cultures and languages celebrate the birth of our Saviour JESUS CHRIST! The day JESUS was born the angels proclaimed his birth to shepherds. Now unless we look into what this really means we look at the sheep and the little shepherds we see in our little plays done around the world in churches.
But it is much more than that! These lowly people were rejected and downtrodden poor poeple of their day. No-one even talked to them they stank and were dirty for the most part as part of their job they were with animals and never bathed, well, you get the picture not someone you carry with you to church!
Sometimes I wonder if JESUS told HIS FATHER, let me be born in a stable so I can give these lonely shepherds a chance to be the first to know about me! GOD is so good no matter where we are in life or where we come from, JESUS accepts us right where we are and lets us into HIS HEAVENLY kingdom not as servants but as as brothers and sisters to the greatest KING of all time JESUS CHRIST of Nazareth!
This picture was taken today as we celebrated with 2 familes of girls who come here to church Anise and Any Yendry, these 2 young ladies are a wonderful example of GODS grace. Their familes don't come to church and even make it hard on them in many ways to come, but they come to church and were baptized this past month to show they love JESUS more than anything and they will follow HIM no matter what it takes.
JESUS BLESS YOU!
Franklin Evelyn Mary & James
