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The Longest Wait

For many children Christmas is a waiting game, for weeks the air is filled with excitement as the decorations go up and as snow falls on the ground. The excited waiting often revolves around the gifts under the tree. This wee booklet is a helpful story for small children that explains the waiting game. But it doesn’t stop with them and their anticipation of gifts. This book transports children back in time to that first Christmas as Mary and Joseph are traveling and awaiting the arrival of the precious baby. But it also tells the story of how Simeon and Anna who were both waiting on the promise child who would be king. Not only that but the whole of creation had been waiting for that day! But all the waiting is over as on Christmas morning Jesus is born. All that God had promised is coming true, Jesus is born, the king has come! This little booklet will help you speak about Christmas in a fun way that highlights the importance of the birth of Jesus. Buy a copy here and read it with your wee ones, why not buy a few and give them as gifts to children at church and family friends. This is a story that everyone needs to hear; that Jesus, the one who will take away the sins of his people and the king sent by God, has come!

Alistair Chalmers