Christians behind the Iron Curtain in Ukraine and Serbia celebrated Christmas. I was touched when I read a little article about Christmas Day in Sarejevo. The awful warfare was all around them despite promise after promise of a cease-fire. The airport was closed. More than a dozen civilians had already been killed when the article was written. Shelling the residential sections of the city, the Serbian army, just to break morale, caused havoc on Christmas Day.

One reporter was downtown when the horrid sounds of indiscriminate shelling died down. And he said, "I suddenly was arrested because from several directions, from several churches, I heard people singing Christmas carols." Friends, that's the spirit it's going to take in the future for Christianity in this nation. Trust in God and don't quit.