Dear Friends

9th November saw an invitation sent out from the Jewish Community to 'leave a light on for Kristallnacht' and encouragement to us all to make a very visual acknowledgment and remembrance of the night in 1938, when Jewish homes, business and Synagogues were destroyed, an act of darkness that lead to the horrors of the holocaust. I know many of us were unaware of this invitation and if we were, we would xwithout question, have participated.

The sadness of this remembrance, brings us to the message of Christmas, 'The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has never put it out' The invitation given to leave a light on, is a call for us all this Christmas, our hearts are heavy as we witness how deep the darkness can be, but we are not without hope! We as God's people are called to be light, to let our light shine, to lift high the light of the world and to engage in the work of dispelling the darkness.

The story is told of the little Victorian child standing at his bedroom window and refusing to go to bed, he was fascinated as he watched the lamp lighter. Moving from gas street lamp to gas street lamp, lighting them individually, when his mother inquired what he was doing, the little boy responded, 'I'm watching a man punching holes in the darkness'

Surely, this is the ministry we are all called to especially at Christmas time, you in your small corner and I in mine. May we shine at Jesus' bidding and help people to come out of the darkness into the glorious light of God.

God bless you,
Crawford

Rev CJ Logan, Minister