"Do They Know It's Christmas?"

In 1984 a group of popular singers and musicians were assembled to record the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" The entire proceeds from the song were donated to help with the massive Ethiopian famine that was taking place at the time.

This Christmas, in the midst of our family's celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I too was hit with the reality that there are millions of people in our world today that do not know it's Christmas because they have never heard the story of the Savior of the world.

This Christmas passed with 1.65 billion people having no access to the Gospel at all. As our family sat by our Christmas tree and read the story of the birth of Jesus people representing over 4,000 different languages sat in spiritual darkness having no portion of the Bible available to them in their language. It seems that most people in our world do not know that it's Christmas.

I had a great time with my family on Christmas day. But behind all the fun and smiles and laughs and special times was the thought that we were celebrating a truth that others had never heard. And that fact broke my heart. What can we do together so that soon more will know?