Aston, Pennsylvania

Tonight we will pray for the town of Aston, Pennsylvania -- where Peter was born! (His birth certificate says "Wilmington, Delaware" because that's the location of the Birth Center where his birth was registered. But he was really born AT HOME!)

We want to pray for our dear neighbors, the Boswells. And for all past, present and future corps officers' families of the Chester Corps!

It was in Aston that we did most of the preparations to move here to Tartu, Estonia.

How about some of the Christmas story?

LK 1:56 Mary stayed with Elizabeth for about three months and then returned home.
LK 1:57 When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. 58 Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy.
LK 1:59 On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his father Zechariah, 60 but his mother spoke up and said, "No! He is to be called John."
LK 1:61 They said to her, "There is no one among your relatives who has that name."
LK 1:62 Then they made signs to his father, to find out what he would like to name the child. 63 He asked for a writing tablet, and to everyone's astonishment he wrote, "His name is John." 64 Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue was loosed, and he began to speak, praising God. 65 The neighbors were all filled with awe, and throughout the hill country of Judea people were talking about all these things. 66 Everyone who heard this wondered about it, asking, "What then is this child going to be?" For the Lord's hand was with him.
LK 1:67 His father Zechariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied:
LK 1:68 "Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel,
because he has come and has redeemed his people.
LK 1:69 He has raised up a horn of salvation for us
in the house of his servant David
LK 1:70 (as he said through his holy prophets of long ago),
LK 1:71 salvation from our enemies
and from the hand of all who hate us--
LK 1:72 to show mercy to our fathers
and to remember his holy covenant,
LK 1:73 the oath he swore to our father Abraham:
LK 1:74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
and to enable us to serve him without fear
LK 1:75 in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
LK 1:76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High;
for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,
LK 1:77 to give his people the knowledge of salvation
through the forgiveness of their sins,
LK 1:78 because of the tender mercy of our God,
by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven
LK 1:79 to shine on those living in darkness
and in the shadow of death,
to guide our feet into the path of peace."
LK 1:80 And the child grew and became strong in spirit; and he lived in the desert until he appeared publicly to Israel.

Evelyn