Dear Benefactors and Friends,
We are nobody and we are strangers to you but you share your goods to help us in our need. How can we thank you? We can never repay you but the good God Who sees everything knows what you have done for us. So we beg Him to bless you a million-fold for your kindness to nobodies like us. May you have a very blessed Christmas as you have allowed us also to feel blessed this Christmas.
Our homes were wrecked by the typhoon but we find comfort in thinking of our God Who couldn't find a room for His birth, Who teaches us through His priest that there is more to life than buildings.
We are really amazed that Father came to visit us. We had no room to offer to him! He shared our abjection just as God did not disdain the poverty of the manger. We can't find the best words to express our gratitude.
Thank you for the medicines that we continue to receive through the mission.
Thank you so much for the food! Rice is so important to us and Christmas would have been very sad without rice.
Thank you for enabling this good priest to come and teach us the way to heaven. We are the least developed tribe in the country. Before this priest arrived, no one had patiently labored to teach us how to say the basic prayers, because it was laborious to teach us since most of our adults could neither read nor write and our children do not have catechism books to read. Because you support this priest and his mission to us, we love you! Thank you very much! God will not forget you and He will hear your prayers.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and your loved ones!!!
Message from the
Mamanwa people of Cantugas, Surigao del Norte
