Advisory Regarding Christmas GP Testimony Tracts
Dear Family,     November, 1991
         God bless you! Merry Christmas! We have you in our prayers as you use this Christmas season to spread the good news of God's gift to the World--Jesus!
         Enclosed you will find GP Christmas Testimony Tracts for your use in ministering to friends, contacts & relatives as you feel led. We'd like to pass on a reminder that these Tracts were designed to feed & encourage the GP primarily, rather than as a DO pub aimed at feeding our Family. Written by System Christian authors, these stories contain references to activities that are not practiced in the Family, such as church-going or extensive gift-giving.
         However, these stories can be a blessing when used to minister to people in the general public for whom gift-giving, for example, is a normal part of Christmas--as well as lots of shopping, materialism, church-going, etc. So even though some of these stories talk about things that we in the Family don't promote or emphasise, the messages in them make them helpful. In using these stories we are reaching the GP at their level, using their terms, & addressing situations in which the normal person in the System finds himself.
         Because these Testimony Tracts are not tailored particularly for Family reading, we recommend that if you choose to read any of them to your kids or have your JETTs & Teens read them, you first share with them the main points of the above explanation, in order to avoid their misunderstanding or getting confused by anything in these tracts that may look to them to be a little contradictory to our Family standard & lifestyle.
                 We pray that these Tracts are a help & blessing to you in your mail ministries, in visiting contacts or supporters, or however you can make use of them to feed & minister to people outside the Family. Please feel free to photocopy all or parts of them as needed.
         May God bless you with the most fruitful Christmas outreach season you have ever had! We are praying for you as you pour out His Love & Truth!--We know that the happiness you give others will be treasured in their hearts forever! We love you!
With much love & prayers,
WS Staff

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