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Well Merry Christmas everybody welcome to the second annual Trinity Church

Christmas Eve party we're so glad to have you could you guys thank the kids for

me you kids did great thank you so much well if you are new it is my honor to

welcome you my name is Pastor Mark one of the pastors here at our church and

this is such a fun great day and what is my favorite thing is all the kids in

the room when you hear the kids making noise it just means we're blessed so the

latter you kids are you are the more blessed we feel so make all the noise you

want get your wiggles out we're glad to have you and here's what I want you to

know we are here to celebrate someone who is that that's Jesus we're here to

celebrate the birthday of Jesus Christ so I get to do my favorite thing and

that's tell you about him so for those of you that may or may not know Jesus

Christ was born about two thousand years ago his first name Jesus means God is

my savior Christ means the chosen anointed one of God he is special in all of

human history he had a mom he had a dad he had brothers he had sisters he grew up

in a small rural town he came into the world with teenage parents who were

peasants he lived a relatively poor life and what's really curious is we don't

know much about his life until he's about 30 years of age until that time he was

obeying his mother and father he was working in a carpentry job with his father

Joseph and then all of a sudden he started a public ministry that lasted only

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