From Hall-of-Fame Radio Broadcaster Frank Haley, reporting for FGGAM News:
Saeed Abedini has penned a Christmas letter to his family and supporters from the confines of a brutal Prison in Iran….
The American pastor was jailed by the Iranian government two years ago for refusing to recant his faith.
His letter reads:
Merry Christmas!
These days are very cold here. My small space beside the window is without glass making most nights unbearable to sleep. The treatment by fellow prisoners is also quite cold and at times hostile. Some of my fellow prisoners don’t like me because I am a convert and a pastor. They look at me with shame as someone who has betrayed his former religion. The guards can’t even stand the paper cross that I have made and hung next to me as a sign of my faith and in anticipation of celebrating my Savior’s birth. They have threatened me and forced me to remove it. This is the first Christmas that I am completely without my family; all of my family is presently outside of Iran. These conditions have made this upcoming Christmas season very hard, cold and shattering for me. It appears that I am alone with no one left beside me.
Christmas means that God came so that He would enter your hearts today and transform your lives and to replace your pain with indescribable joy.
On this Christmas let the lava-like love of Christ enter into the depth of your heart and make you fiery, ready to pay any cost in order to bring the same lava love to the cold world around you, transforming them with the true message of Christmas.
Pastor Saeed Abedini
Soaking in the lava love of Christ
Merry Christmas everyone.
Please pray for the safety and comfort for Pastor Saeed Abedini and his wife and 2 small children..
