Friend

December 1981

Volume 11, Number 11

Contents

• Stories and Features

• Christmas Message from the First Presidency: Tidings of Great Joy!

• Mail-Order Christmas
  Alice Stratton

• Friends in the News

• Red-Faced Roger
  Betty Lou Mell

• “Brother Joseph”

• A Candle and a Star
  Pamela Pavlovsky

• Miss Minnie’s Christmas Gifts
  Frances B. Watts

• Our Creative Friends

• For Christ Is Born
  Dave Collins

• Let’s Decorate the Tree
  Berniece Rabe

• Little Wind and the Buffalo (Part Three)
  Ray Goldrup

• Christmas Eve
  Edna Wignell

• Angel on Your Shoulder
  Jessie V. Robinette

• Verse

• Christmas Wishes
  Solveig Paulson Russell

• Getting Ready
  Bertra Kusik

• Music

• Sleep, Little Jesus
  Mabel Jones Gabbott and Michael F. Moody

• The Shepherd’s Carol
  Dan Carter

• Things to Make and Do

• Sharing Time: Getting Ready for Christmas
  Pat Graham

• Christmas Workshop

• Kitchen Krafts: Holiday Brunch
  Winnifred and Ann Jardine

• Christmas Advent Calendar
  Margaret Atkinson

• Jesus’ Birth
  Marene Ebert

• Hidden Picture
  Judy Capener

Cover photo by Eldon Linschoten and Jed Clark; tree courtesy Green Acres Nursery