 Oh, holy night, the star is the night of our dear Saviour's birth. Hello, I'm Mike McKee, the Bishop of the North Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church. Already many of you have begun preparing for the celebration of Christmas, whether it's making lists for those gifts that you're going to be given of your loved ones or whether it is the preparation of a holiday meal or a celebration of another sort. But one of the things I want to invite you to do is to consider those persons who may be having difficulty at this time of the year. There is someone in your life, either a friend, a family member, a co-worker, or a neighbor who has had a very difficult time this year because of grief, loss of job, or simply a search for meaning in their lives. What better time for you to invite someone to worship with you in your United Methodist Church? And what I want to do is to encourage each one of our members who are in our local churches to invite someone they know to experience not only the joy of the season, but most importantly, most importantly, I hope that you will invite them to share in the meaning of this gift that our God has given to us in human form, the birth of the baby Jesus. Not only is a time in which we simply celebrate that, it's a time in which we acknowledge that that very gift can bring healing to our lives. So I pray and hope for you a blessed Christmas season, and I hope that it will become even more meaningful as you invite someone to experience the meaning of Christmas Day and the incarnation with you. God's blessings be yours during this season.