Christmas Celebration Joy!

What a wonderful celebration we had this past Thursday.  Thank you to all those who participated and made it such a blessing.  It was so good to see so many of you take time out of the busyness of the season to spend time together and to celebrate together the awesome mystery of Christ coming down to be one of us.
We began the morning with sharing our most memorable gift received or given and had much laughter at finding out someone had received a chainsaw one Christmas!    The laughter continued as a few members performed a skit entitled The Great Church Robbery, a takeoff from the story The Grinch who stole Christmas by Dr Seuss. It had a lovely ending in which  a grumpy old man comes to know Jesus.
 A wonderful poem explaining the Twelve days of Christmas from a Christian perspective was also read.  To read this again check out the Devotions/Poems page. We then, had a lovely testamony from a member of mom to mom explaining how she feels about the new program.
The highlight of the morning was carol singing with a lovely mix of violin, flute and a  unique type of xylophone
played by local members.  It was a pure delight to sing to this mix of instruments , especially singing Christmas songs.  Thank you ladies, for sharing your gifts.
We closed the morning with a surprise reading of a christmas story and then with singing We Wish You a Merry Christmas.  We do have pictures of the morning celebration so check them out in the members only section.
We want to wish everyone a wonder-filled Christmas and a blessed New year.  We hope to see you all again
January 6th 2011.
Many Blessings to you all
FK.