Christmas,
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a time when the
world pauses for a moment,
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and whether or not
they believe in Jesus,
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the birth of our
Savior's on everyone's mind.
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We sing glory to
God in the highest,
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and on earth peace,
good will toward men.
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Celebrate this special season
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and worship our Savior and King
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as we being you Christmas
with the 3ABN Kids Network.
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Welcome, I'm Aunt Francine,
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and I'm delighted
to have some friends
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with us to celebrate Christmas.
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We have Angel, Amanda,
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Charlie, Ian,
Hannah, Noelia, and Jafet.
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And I'm so delighted to
have Miss Celestine and Mr. Tim.
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Would you kindly sing
for us and play with us
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"The Hark! The
Herald Angels Sing."
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Yeah, kids, let's sing this.
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Hark! The herald angels sing
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Glory to the new-born King!
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Peace on earth, and mercy mild
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God and sinners reconciled
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Joyful, all ye nations, rise
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Join the triumph of the skies
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With th' angelic host proclaim
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Christ is born in Bethlehem
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Hark! The herald angels sing
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Glory to the new-born King!
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Christ, By highest heaven adored
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Christ, the everlasting Lord
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In the manger born a King
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While adoring angels sing
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Peace on earth, To men good will
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Bid the trembling soul be still
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Christ on earth
Has come to dwell
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Jesus, our Immanuel!
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Hark! The herald angels sing
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Glory to the newborn King
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Hail the
heaven-born Prince of Peace
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Hail the Son of Righteousness
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Life and light to all He brings
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Risen with healing in His wings
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Mild He lays His glory by
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Born that man no more may die
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Born to raise the sons of earth
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Born to give them second birth
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Hark! The herald angels sing
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Glory to the newborn King
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Thank you. I
enjoyed that so much.
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I believe I have a story.
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I have some stories that
happened in Central America
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and maybe in South America.
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But, Jafet, I think
you are from Honduras.
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Am I correct?
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Yes. You are.
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So can you tell me a
little bit about Honduras?
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Yes. I'll kindly do it.
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In Honduras, the
traditional Christmas holiday
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is celebrated in December 24.
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People often go
to church that day,
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do remember the birth of Jesus.
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They also go to
their grandparents' house
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to celebrate
Christmas food and music.
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And the main foods that
they do those days are tamales,
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and they also do
toheroas with honey.
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The stores are decorated,
and there are Christmas trees
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on the stores too for sale.
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They also have little
figures of Jesus, Virgin Mary,
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St. Joseph, and
the Three Wise Men.
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And in Honduras,
there are a lot of fireworks
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but the best are
saved for midnight.
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At midnight, we also
give hugs to each other
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to remember that
we love each other
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and to welcome
everyone to the New Year.
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And that's the
story I have for today.
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Thank you so much, Jafet.
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So my story takes place in Cuba,
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and little Anna was
only eight years old
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and she was excited because
Christmas was around a corner.
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But her mom was
asking her, "Anna,
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can you come and
help in the kitchen?"
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And Anna wasn't so
excited to help in the kitchen
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because when you have
to help in the kitchen,
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that means, you
also have to do what?
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Do some dishes and cleaning up.
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Well, she said, "All right,
Mama, I'll come and help."
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So she would get in the kitchen,
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and she would help
make beans and rice
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or maybe it was
the rice and beans.
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But anyway, she
would also make salad,
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and she would have
some fried potatoes
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and she would help her
mother peel the potatoes
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and cook them and
get them all ready.
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And so she was excited.
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But then her favorite thing that
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she loved helping her
mom with was with cake.
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Do you like cake?
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Do you make cake
for Christmas? Oh!
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And so she's
like, "Mama, can I help?
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Can we put especially
the guava jam inside of it?"
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And mama's like,
"All right, but, you know,
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we only have so much,
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you can't spread
it out too thick."
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And so she would help her mama
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spread the jelly
right on and set it up.
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And so now was
the time to go ahead
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and prepare these foods
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and separate
these different plates
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to be able to take
over to the other neighbors.
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Some neighbors
didn't have a lot of food
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because some of them were poor,
and didn't have a lot of food.
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And some of them have
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the sick people in their family.
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And so she was so
delighted because her brother,
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and Chazelle, would actually go
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and knock on the doors and say,
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"Hi, we've got
some food for you."
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So they were excited about that.
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But before that they
had one other stop to go to,
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and that was to the hospital.
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And so they had a
cousin that was there.
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And so they went to
their cousin and say,
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"Oh, look at this package.
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We want to wish
you a Merry Christmas."
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And oh!
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Do you think he
beamed up real big?
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Oh, he did. He was so excited.
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And so he said,
"Oh, thank you so much."
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And then it was time to
go over to the neighbors,
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and they would go and
knock and give the food,
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and the people
were so delighted.
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But there was one
special little house
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that they would go to,
and there was a little boy
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and she knew this little boy
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because he was
the same age as her,
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but he couldn't run and
play like the other boys.
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He was in a wheelchair.
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And so she really
thought about that and said,
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"Oh, you know what?"
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He wants to have something,
and so she would spend
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some time with
him and talk to him.
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And sometimes they
would sing some songs
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and tell funny stories
of what they did at school.
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And so she just
remembered all these phases
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that would always be
something special for them.
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Have you ever done
something like that
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where you sometimes
want to just be that
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little light for Jesus?
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I do.
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And so I have another
story that doesn't happen
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in Central
America, but in Argentina.
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And in Argentina,
there's special things
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that happen in Argentina
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because that is
in the southern part.
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And they also speak Spanish,
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and just like
in Central America,
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and in South America,
there is also the equator.
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And when the equator is...
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Where the equator is,
you know where the earth is.
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It is not wintertime over there.
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Do you know what it
is? In South America?
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It is summertime you're right
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because the sun
hits it directly.
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And so kids are
often playing around
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in the yard
during Christmas time.
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And their favorite thing to do,
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they love to just play outside
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and they anticipate
Christmas Eve, fireworks.
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Do you like fireworks?
Oh, they love fireworks.
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But little Sylvia, she
decided, "No, you know what,
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we're going to
do something special
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before it's Christmas
Eve, we're going to get
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and we're going to
write little messages and say,
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'Jesus loves you,
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so do we' or
'We're praying for you'
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or 'We're thinking of you.'
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" And so they would
blow, put these little message
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and they would
put them in balloons,
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and then they would blow
up the balloons with helium.
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And then they would take them
to the hospital with a cord.
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And there, they
decided all of the people
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would come and they would sing
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to all the
people at the hospital,
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and then they would
let the balloons go up.
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And many of the people
on that lawn were excited
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because they had
little love messages
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for the children.
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And that was so much fun.
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But the highlight for
Sylvia was going to Cordoba.
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And in there where
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she would go
see her grandmother,
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the biggest highlight
that every family would do,
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it would get in the
middle of the square,
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and they would be able to sing.
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And then they would do
something really special.
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They would have something
like this little lantern.
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Now most of the time,
they were bigger lanterns.
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And they would make
them, they would decorate them,
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and do them really
nice and really special.
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They would have these,
they call them fire balloons.
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And so they would
let the air pick them up.
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And then these
balloons would burn up.
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And they would light,
and people would see them.
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And it'd be
hundreds and hundreds
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of these lanterns up in the sky.
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And she was just so excited.
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And then like you said
fireworks was a big thing,
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and sometimes they would have it
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all until midnight,
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having lots of
fireworks all the time
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because just seeing the light
of Jesus was always so bright.
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And so it reminds
me of little stories
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of how we can shine
our light for Jesus.
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Do you think so? Yeah.
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And just like his
stories in Honduras,
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you have some
wonderful stories there.
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And in Cuba, we have
some stories of little Anna.
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And now, Sylvia,
I'm so thankful that
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God has done wonderful
things in around the world.
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There's other countries
that we haven't included.
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But we've just
included a little bit
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of some that speak Spanish.
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And I am so thankful
that Jesus loves us all
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and wants us to
shine our light for Him.
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I do agree.
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How many of you want to
shine your light for Jesus?
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I really want
to shine for Jesus.
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So I would like
you to think about
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some different
things that we can do.
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Maybe at home,
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maybe it's
cooking a little package
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or just saying a little message
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or just making a
flower bouquet for somebody.
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Whatever you can
do, do it for Jesus.
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And I
appreciate all that you do.
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So, Jafet, I know
that you might have...
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I'm thinking of
"Joy to the World"
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because we have so much
joy in our hearts, don't we?
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Are we so
thankful that we have joy?
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Yes.
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And I think you
know some Spanish.
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Would you be able to
tell us the chorus of
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"Joy to the World" in Spanish?
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Yes.
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So I'm excited.
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Do you think we can all sing
together "Joy to the World"?
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I would like to sing
that. Stand up and sing.
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Joy to the
world, The Lord is come
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Let earth receive her King
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Let every heart Prepare Him room
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And Heaven and nature sing
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And Heaven and nature sing
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And Heaven, and
Heaven, And nature sing
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Joy to the earth,
The Savior reigns!
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Let men their songs employ
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While fields and floods,
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Rocks, hills and plains
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Repeat the sounding joy
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Repeat the sounding joy
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Repeat, repeat, The sounding joy
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He rules the world
With truth and grace
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And makes the nations prove
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The glories of His righteousness
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And wonders of His love
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And wonders of His love
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And wonders and wonders
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Of His love
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Thank you.
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I really appreciate all
this singing that we do.
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"Joy to the World"
is such a special song,
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and I really appreciate it.
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Jafet, would you please
have closing prayer for us?
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Yes.
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Dear, Heavenly
Father, thank You for coming
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to this earth as the baby
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and that we can
have special time
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with our family and friends.
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Please bless all the
children around the world
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and live in our hearts.
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In the name of Jesus, amen.
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Oh! Thank you.
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And there's so
many special things
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that you can remember.
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And I really appreciate it.
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Do you have any favorite
songs that you like singing?
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I like "What Child Is This?"
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I like "Silent Night."
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"Away in a Manger"
is kind of special.
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"Away in a Manger." I like that.
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Thank you so
much for joining us.
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We hope that you have a
special time making memories
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with your family
and close friends.
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May Jesus bring you joy
during this special season
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so that others will see
the light of Jesus through you.
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My friends and I
would like to wish you
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a very special
and Merry Christmas!
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