December 2025 Issue

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Our Shared Ministry

• 75 Years of Today: A Legacy Carried by Faithful Hands
• Investing in The Few This Advent Season
• Invirtiendo en unos pocos esta temporada de Adviento
• Who’s At Our Doorstep? Planting Churches with Newcomers
• 대림절, 소수에게 집중하는 시간

Mixed Media

• Birds of the Earth Herald the Christ Child’s Birth
• Hosea
• Mixed Media Roundup: December 2025
• Out of My Mind

Columns

• Vocation: I’m A Mom Who Provides Child Care to Others. As My Children Grow, I Want to Explore Other Vocation Possibilities, But Where Do I Even Start?
• Vantage Point: Sin: A Broken Relationship
• Faith Matters: Slowing Down: Rediscovering the Sacred in a Hurried World
• Church/Bible/Doctrine: What is the CRC Stance and Christian View of MAID (Medically Assisted Induced Dying)?
• Discover: What Stinks?

Features

• The Books That Made Us

News

• Baby Lambs, Starry Night Make For Realistic-feeling Nativity in South Dakota
• Christian Courier Turns 80, Blesses Retiring Editor
• Church Replica Features in Model Train Display
• Churches Making Community Presence at Christmas
• Classis Watch: Fall 2025
• Summit Marks Transition from Toward CRC Canada to ‘Movement of Churches’
• Trinity Focused on Closing Well for Students; CCCU has Sustainability Index for Member Schools
• ‘Shared Stories of Struggles and Successes, Pain and Joy’ At World General Council
• ‘Those Were My Very Happy Days’