From Reverend Norman A. Grigg - President of the Methodist Conference of the Methodist Church The Gambia
VOL:1 ISSN:39 It’s my pleasure and privilege to bring you Christmas greeting from the Methodist church in The Gambia and to wish you peace and joy on this day, when Christmas throughout the world are celebrating the birth of Jesus.
For some it may seem inappropriate to be celebrating anything against a background of recession, of fears about climate change and with war and conflict raring in many countries throughout the world but the message of Christmas is a massage of hope and faith even in a world such as ours, because essentially it is about the belief that God, the creator of the universe, has come alongside us and shared our human life and that is a reason for celebration even in the darkest days.
But faith is not as one six year old child describes it “as believing things that aren’t true”, the Christian faith in the Christmas story deals with the real World and God’s engagement with it in real time and real space and through real people.
For some it may seem inappropriate to be celebrating anything against a background of recession, of fears about climate change and with war and conflict raring in many countries throughout the world but the message of Christmas is a massage of hope and faith even in a world such as ours, because essentially it is about the belief that God, the creator of the universe, has come alongside us and shared our human life and that is a reason for celebration even in the darkest days.
But faith is not as one six year old child describes it “as believing things that aren’t true”, the Christian faith in the Christmas story deals with the real World and God’s engagement with it in real time and real space and through real people.
