Merry Christmas to All!

Guess what people! It’s nearly Christmas! We know you’re excited.
You have that turkey to look forward to, a break from school, maybe
some sledding or perhaps a nice game of scrabble in your future.
However, before you get to all that, why don’t you take a little break
from all your Christmas baking, grab a cookie, and settle down with
our newsletter. Trust us, you won’t be disappointed!

We have some fabulous things for you inside this cover. Nico tells us
all about what Christmas means to him, Allan Buckingham tells us all
about his trip to the holy land, and Jeff Poynter tell us about his trip to
Nicaragua (We are full of travel this issue). As well, we have fabulous
photos from all sorts of people– no Google searching for us this issue!

In fact, we had so many things that we wanted to put into this issue,
that we had to make two issues!! So after your done reading this one,
be sure to take a look at our special “Things to Check Out” issue as
well! We’ve got some interesting information about things happening
within the United Church in the coming year!

Anyways, we hope you all have a magical Christmas, and a fantastic
New Year. We plan too. Watch out for issue number 11 in Spring
2009! Merry Christmas!
-Charley and Kathleen