One of the
holidays the Czech people observe is Mikulash day. It falls on the 6th
of December. St Mikulash goes from house to house along with a demon and an
angel. If the children sing for this trio, they can receive a small gift. If
they have been disobedient, they get coal. So you see it falls somewhat in line
with the Santa Clause story some people observe in America. We had some tracts
printed specifically for this holiday and handed them out that day, along with
an invitation to church. We gave some of the tracts to young Maty Mazgut, who in
the 2nd grade. He intended on handing them out at school. He boldly
went to all his classmates and attempted to give out the tracts but not one
child was willing to take the material. Every one of them said that they don’t
believe the legend about the existence of God. We praise the Lord that he was
courageous enough to take the tracts and try to hand them out.
We had been praying that our personal
outreach, tract distribution, along with the Facebook ads would bring out a
larger group of people on Christmas day, however, we did have two returning
visitors which had not attended in a long time. The children performed a puppet
play. I preached on the virgin birth and then we had a wonderful meal prepared
by my incredible wife.
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