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Oh look, the first Chicken Thursday of 2018 - Happy New Year!

Sunday's Cybersalt Digest included an item that featured 40 ways to say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in different languages. Well, it turns out there were some missing. Thanks to everyone who contributed more:

Jaco van W. wrote:

You forgot my home language Afrikaans: It is a beautiful language spoken in the most southern point of africa. In afrikaans, the translation is : “Geseënde kersfees en voorspoedige nuwe jaar”! Regards “groete”

 Liberté H. wrote:

You missed out Europe’s oldest living language..... Welsh.... happy new year is Blwyddyn Newydd dda..... to pronounce the dd sound you put your tongue as if you were going to say THE, only it is a longer gentle blow..... then to pronounce the LL letter (as they are both letters in their own right!) you put your tongue again to say THE only this time instead of gently blowing forwards you blow sideways.... as if you have a certain type of lisp.

And my neglected online friend, Walter M., wrote:

You know I like to jump on the least little possible error, like the Aztec Sun Stone, so I thought I would mention that "Shanah Tova" is something I have only heard in connection with the Jewish new year which was a little while ago.  It might be the same, but I'll have to check it out with my Messianic pastor friend.  You also left out my favorite language, Siamese.  Oh-wah  ta-si ligu Siam.

I'll be making updates to the original item.

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim

Last Sunday of the year greetings everyone!

There was an encouraging response to Thursday's announcement of the closed BOCC Facebook group. It's not closed as in "you can't still join." It's closed as in "It's not publicly viewable." If you are interested you can find out more and ask to be added at:
www.facebook.com/groups/1560231830750436 

It being the end of the year, Rev. James Snyder has been remembering about memory and is looking forward. You can read more about that in "As The Old Year Fades, So Does My Memory" at:
www.cybersalt.org/x86p

And finally, since it's New Years Eve, it's time to bring out the New Years Dog page again:
www.cybersalt.org/funny-dog-pictures/happy-new-year-dog 

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing and Happy New Year!

~ Pastor Tim

Oh look, Chicken Thursday!

As we approach the end of the year, a number of the persecuted Christians and refugees that Cybersalt is connected with find themselves in ongoing trials and hardships. As a forum for sharing news and prayer requests about/for these families, I have created a closed Facebook Group. If you are interested in joining here is the link to the group:
www.facebook.com/groups/1560231830750436

Information about what the Body of Christ Connection is about and how you can participate or donate go to:
www.cybersalt.org/xufw

Enjoy the rest of today's mailing!

~ Pastor Tim

Sunday and Christmas Eve greetings everyone! On behalf of Grandma Cybersalt and myself, I would like to wish you a blessed and soul-filled Christmas.

This Christmas is a very different one for us featuring the breaking of many traditions, the making of some new ones, and probably some one-offs too. One of the biggest changes is that we have already celebrated our family get together with two of our three children (the third and her family not being able to be home at all). To accommodate work schedules, Christmases with their in-laws, and to give us the most time together, we had both our traditional Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas morning present opening "untraditionally" on the 23rd. 

The most zealous of shoppers would say that means we have 366 days to get ready for next Christmas. However, we see it as one more morning for some family time and farewells, and then a leisurely anticipation of a 10pm Christmas Eve communion service. Next comes an unrushed Christmas day to celebrate and remember what God has already done 2000 years earlier. For though we find ourselves in a place and stage of life with much already enjoyed this Christmas, the most important thing we have to revel in remains the life changing reality of Jesus's birth in Bethlehem to (as the song says) "set us free from Satan's power when we had gone astray."

Seasons of life, those inhabiting them with us, and the traditions born out of the combination of both will come and go, but God's gift of restored life with Him will remain as unchanged as the gift He gave that first Christmas.

God bless you all and enjoy the rest of today's mailing

~ Pastor Tim