Of all the blessings of the holiday season, one of the greatest is the gift of making family memories and revisiting cherished traditions. The key to making family memories is to make them; don’t just wait for them to happen.

Mrs. Virginia Sisk and her husband, Dr. Don Sisk, went to Japan as missionaries in 1964. After returning from Japan, Dr. Sisk helped missionaries and churches around the world through Baptist International Missions, Inc. (BIMI). The Sisks moved to Lancaster, California, in 2003, where Dr. Sisk serves as the missions department director of West Coast Baptist College, and Mrs. Sisk teaches the class “The Missionary’s Wife.”

Every family has to make tough decisions with their finances. If we let the world define success for us, we can be tempted to spend on luxury items at the expense of what really matters the most. With the constant pressure of economic woes, consumer advertising, and a fluctuating housing market, how can Christians maintain a biblical balance of priorities in their family budget?