Merry Christmas Joy-Creators!

Our artisans gathered Friday to finish our spring collection and then celebrate Christmas together and if you haven't seen their Reel on our Facebook or Instagram page of their fun and games, you should check it out! It has been a good year. We have been able to scratch out a 5% increase which is remarkable considering the state of our world and the tariffs we had to absorb this year. So today, I'd love it if you would join me in praising the Lord for protecting us from a down year. We have worked harder this year, and I've done more events and tradeshows and more ads and more posts on social media to see that number be positive and not negative. So it also means our expenses were higher. We are still short in our budget about 130 orders. We are praying for our after Christmas sale to make up some of this. And I've seen God work some incredible miracles on behalf of Alegria.  I would ask if you would pray for 3 things this week for us:

1. That God would move shoppers after Christmas and that we would see this gap close even more or even disappear.
2. For our artisans to be safe over Christmas, and their families would grow stronger and stay healthy. And that they can rest.
3. For Jenna and I to find some time to rest (even though this is so hard for me when I see a goal that isn't met yet.)

I pray that you all have a Merry Christmas with your families this week. That we would all remember that it was the coming of Messiah, Emmanuel, God with us, Savior, Prince of Peace and King of Kings that created the first Christmas in an animal cave in Bethlehem so long ago.