I met a new woman at church today and invited her to sit next to me. She spoke broken English and had just moved to our neighborhood from up north. After the service she pointed to the big stack of Christmas Child boxes and said, “Where are you sending those?” I said they go all over the world. It’s a way for our people to love children everywhere. She said, “I got one of those boxes once.” She grew up in Mexico. “We were Catholic but not Christians. One of my relatives took me to a church that had the boxes. We all sat down in a big field and they handed them out to us.” That’s incredible. Do you remember what was in it? “I got a T-shirt and pens for coloring. I was very excited.” She was then swallowed up by our Spanish-speaking members, so I didn’t hear the end of the story. But it was a little glimpse of the global church coming full circle. The kingdom is always bigger, and closer, than we think.