"Do They Know It's Christmas?"

In 1984 a group of popular singers and musicians 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 as we celebrate the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and enjoy family and food and fun there will be millions of people in our world that will not know it's Christmas because they have never heard the story of the Savior of the world.

This Christmas will pass with over 1.65 billion people having no access to the Gospel at all. As our family will sit by the Christmas tree and read the story of the birth of Jesus, people representing over 4,000 different languages will sit 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 anticipate having a great time with my family on Christmas day. But behind all the fun and smiles and laughs and special times will be the thought that we are celebrating a truth that others have never heard. And I pray that fact will break my heart. What can we do together so that soon more will know that it's Christmas?