Hi Dear Family,
We have had a very busy year in 2008 and 2009 looks like it will be filled with new open doors. We have been blessed that the Lord allowed us to minister in several avenues this last year. We appeared on Daystar's Celebration and Gospel Music Showcase. We also appeared on Cornerstone, Atlanta Live, TCT, and TV 49. We were also asked to host our own Radio show called a 'God Thing' for WKKX AM1600 every Sunday evening. We are hosting it with our dear friend and co-laborer in ministry Linda A. Seidler. The show has been very successful with our local area and we are looking to syndicate it soon.

We also just finished up a new CD of music which will be available in time for Christmas. The CD is entitled "Playing with Life & Death", and has 13 songs on it. The CD really speaks to the church and lost and shows the condition of where we as a nation are in these latter days. God really helped us choose the songs for the new release and He shared with us how we as a ministry need to lift Him up, bring the family unit closer and try to unite this country… our motto for this CD is God, Family, & Country. We also got a chance to do a stage show called "Puttin' On the Ritz", where the two of us learned to dance and it allowed us to act out several skits like Abbott & Costello's "Whose On First" &  "Joseph and the Techno-color Dream Coat". We also did two songs from our new CD called "The Walls – of 9-11" and "I'm A Soldier". These songs moved the audience to tears and allowed us to minister in someway to all that were there. 

While we have been traveling to churches all over the United States we have been receiving lots of emails from hurting people all over the world. People who write us, not even expecting an answer, but simply needing to tell somebody that it hurts. Someone once said, "We are who we think others think we are." Think about that! Wow! Often times we lead ourselves to believe that Christians are always happy, always prosperous, always at peace, and always in control of their lives. This just isn't true. But since we want others to perceive us that way, we go to church and act like everything is just fine. And while each of us is hiding our own hurts, we fail to recognize the hurts in our brothers and our sisters. How sad!

When we feel sick, even when we just think we might be sick, we go to the doctor. The doctor asks us questions and forms his diagnosis. This is the first step toward healing. Yet when we're struggling with emotional or spiritual pain, our first reaction is to hide the pain, hold it within, and pretend everything is all right. In our minds, admitting to someone else that we're hurting would "shatter" the perfect perception we want them to have of us. Unfortunately, as a church, we have not made it easier for ourselves to share our burdens with each other. Often, when a brother or sister does share a hurt, rather than supporting them and loving them through the hurt, we judge them. Too often we are like the priest and Levite, walking by the wounded, not wanting to get involved. Yet if none of us get involved, how can we expect to find a Samaritan in our own time of need? How can we learn to trust one another? We desperately need to encourage each other. We need to be vulnerable and open about our own struggles so that others will trust us with their hurts. Even Paul, a model of endurance in suffering, expressed his own hurts and asked for prayer (2 Cor.12:7, 1Th.5:25).  James 5:16 gives us this instruction: "Confess your faults (or sins), one to another, and pray for one another, so you may be healed."

Let's reach out to those who hurt, to love them and support them. Most of all, pray earnestly for them. Don't take prayer lightly. Prayer isn't just for the benefit of those we pray for. When we pray, our own attitude changes and we begin to see others through more compassionate eyes. Please pray for us. Just like you, we have hurts and struggles. We aren't perfect… but if we could be open instead of concealing, loving instead of judging, God will touch each of us in a new way in 2009.

Tons of Love & Blessings always!!
The Chrisagis Brothers