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Advent 2024

Free Advent Devotional

by Sero Ku // Devotional, LOVE —Love was, is, and always will be a verb and a noun, for God is love.  Prepare   “God, we breathe in Your presence, your love and joy of this season. As we celebrate this season, we also recognize how possibly painful this season may be for so many in our world. We ask for your…

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Christmas in Ukraine: Faith, Family and Traditions 

Christmas in Ukraine

In Ukraine, Christmas is often family-centered time, filled with rich traditions and customs. Many Ukrainians start celebrating Christmas on December 24th. They usually have Christmas Eve dinner, which includes twelve dishes symbolizing the twelve apostles.

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Why We Welcome: The Hope We Have

This guest blog is written by Alisha L Garza, a Volunteer Coordinator in our DuPage Office To be human is to experience a variety of emotions—often conflicting ones. Like a woman in childbirth, there is the striking reality of pain and joy. Even Jesus was called the Man of Sorrows (Isaiah 53:3), while the author…

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Christmas Displaced

Lately I have been musing on how often the Christmas story describes people being displaced from their homes. The most obvious example, and the subject of countless Christmas pageants, is the Holy Family leaving Nazareth to trek 90 miles south to Bethlehem. It couldn’t have been easy. The road was not always safe, Mary was…

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