Who knows more about Christmas? Western pop singers or African Christians? For the Colson Center,

I'm John Stone Street with the point. Back in the heart of 1980s, there was a spate of aid music

projects, like We Are the World Farm Aid. And for the holiday junkies, that song, the raise money

for starving Africans, which contained this line. There won't be snow in Africa this Christmas

time. Do they know it's Christmas time at all?

What a ridiculous thing to say. Looking back at Christianity's earliest days, nearly every

big-name Christian leader came from Africa. Trutalian, origin, Athanasius, Augustin of Hippo,

African cities like Alexandria and Carthage incubated the theology that would spread around the

world. And Ethiopian and

Egyptian churches have a much longer history than English or Russian ones. Not only this, there's

good reason to believe that there are more Christians in Africa today than any other continent.

This is so much of the case that in the face of the doctrinal drift in their home countries,

many Western churches now look to Africa for leadership.

So, just in case you were still worried about this, yes, they do know it's Christmas time in Africa,

probably better than we do. I'm John Stomstreet.