Let us pray for all who will work here and for those who will share the fruit of their labor. Then the Scripture is read: Listen to the words of the apostle Paul to the Thessalonians: 1 Thes 4:10 ...

ON a sweltering spring day, workers at a Christmas tree factory in eastern China rhythmically assembled piles of branches, wiping away sweat as they daubed white-paint snow onto plastic pine needles.