To all my Togo supporters:

This message is just to wish you a Merry Christmas today with your families and to say “thank you” for your prayers for me and for your financial help to this ministry.

Christmas in Togo is just one religious holiday among many; its a day of eating and fellowship with friends for the Christians. It’s a one-day national holiday. For the non-Christians it can be the ‘day of the child’ or just a day for general feasting. “Feasting” in Togo means having plenty of FuFu (pounded manioc root), rice and sauce. New Year’s day is a much bigger holiday than Christmas among non-Christians. Gift-giving is limited among Togolese just due to the general poverty of the people. Of course here at the hospital patient care and care of emergency cases continue as they do every day of the year (on holidays and weekends no elective surgery is scheduled, so the day is somewhat calmer as long as the emergency cases are few).
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