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I sit wrapping gifts as our team makes calls to the displaced people from the south. What’s the question? Have you returned to your home? If not, how are you planning to handle the cold? The answers have a wide range.

 

 “I cannot my home is damaged.”,

 

“We want to go to check our house is, but it is in the “no-go” zone.”

 

 “To we don’t want to risk it.”

 

 There are some who can afford it that are continuing to rent in Beirut just in case things start again but are going back and forth checking on their home and coming to Beirut.

 

As we approach Christmas it is an (confused) time. Nothing is certain, nothing is set. The cease fire is 60 days, and the Christians in Lebanon are tentatively letting themselves get excited for Christmas. Though it will be an uneasy Christmas.

 

In these times that we are uncertain of what is next we can rest on the one who we know is still in control. God is still working in Lebanon and so we are still working. It is a confusing time of our regular schedule, with the added Christmas festivities, plus the question of the resumption of war.

 

But as we remain steadfast in Him, we enter into the season that reminds us God is not far. In fact, He came close. We in the same way want to continue to remind the people He is close He is not far, and we remain with them.