{"id":292,"date":"2015-01-06T04:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simoneundjoachim.de\/en\/?p=292"},"modified":"2015-01-06T04:48:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T03:48:05","slug":"christmas-in-taipei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simoneundjoachim.de\/en\/2015\/01\/christmas-in-taipei\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Taipei"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Christmas here in Taiwan is very different from Christmas in Germany or the US\u2026
\nOur church had a Christmas party on the Saturday before Christmas. Some people sang a song, some people did a little performance and there was a sermon. On Christmas itself there was no service in our church.
\nChristmas Eve we and some of our Marburg Mission colleges organized a German Christmas Service for German\u2019s who work or study here in Taipei or who are just here for vacation. About 50 people came. We really enjoyed it having a little bit of \u201cGerman Christmas\u201d here in Taipei (here you can listen to a Christmas Song that Amy sang in the German Christmas Service<\/a>). Afterwards we had our colleges at our home to celebrate Christmas Eve together. Christmas Day we took a day off. In the morning we celebrated as a family \u2013 sang songs together, read the Christmas story and unpacked our presents. In the afternoon we went with a short term missionary who stayed with us for Christmas to the hot springs and enjoyed Christmas there. The next day we already went to school and preschool again. The Sunday after Christmas we invited two of our neighbor families over to celebrate Christmas with us and to show them what Christmas is about. Amy\u2019s preschool also had a Christmas party. We will tell you about that soon.
\nEven if Christmas is very different here in Taiwan, it still has the same reason: we celebrate Jesus\u2019 birthday who came as a little baby into our world, because he wants to be close to us.<\/p>\n

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