Dear Friends,
We come out on a long, dark night to sing Silent Night because we have experienced a word of hope being spoken into that silence.
Our Christmas story is about hope spoken to a previously silenced couple. As God’s Word arrives in the Flesh, silenced people are no longer discounted and alone.
With creation, God constantly brings light, not out of light, but out of darkness. Likewise, God brings the Word, not out of loquaciousness, but out of silence. Christmas is an invitation to trust that when the darkness becomes overwhelming, and silence becomes deafening: Have faith! Have trust! This is the moment when the Word take flesh, when God will be born like a child to migrants in a stable. Have hope!
As a recipient of hope, you are called to be hope by speaking into the silence and to the silenced. Our giving reflects the image of God speaking into the silence and to the silenced, “I am with you always.”
This Christmas, the Christian Service Support Board of Hills Church has designated the Christmas Offering for Honduras Hope. Honduras Hope’s mission is to empower people silenced economically and politically in rural Honduras to create stronger and more self-sufficient communities with educational opportunities. Unfortunately, Honduras is one of the poorest and most violent societies in the Americas. Climate change has adversely affected many small coffee growers which in turn has deepened its economic distress.
Please write your check to Hills Church (or WHCC) with “Christmas Offering” on the memo line, or CLICK HERE to make a donation online.
Hills Church has worked with Honduras Hope in the past and has sent people to serve alongside Hondurans. Currently we are advised against travelling to Honduras but with partners already in Honduras we can send our gifts breaking the silence and equipping the silenced of Honduras with “the dawn of redeeming grace.”
Please join us in singing Silent Night and may the Word become flesh in your life this Christmas.
Grace and peace,
