Merry Christmas to Everyone! 🎅🎄🎁🎉❤️💚❤️💚
I hope this blog finds you sitting in front of a roaring fire eating as many Christmas cookies that you can shove into your face. Or at least I hope it finds in the Christmas spirit! What a blessing it has been this year to celebrate the Advent season with our family at Trinity. 2016 is going to be a great year for us, there is so much to look forward to!
Shout Outs
- To Anna Claire and Stuart who brought us yummy pesto pasta, a fancy kale salad, and garlic bread. It was an excellent follow-up meal to Waffle Extravaganza 2015.
- To Jamie who knocked it out of the park leading for the first time! We are all so excited to add another teacher to the rotation!
- To the people who came and helped paint and clean the bridal suite. Gray is truly the new yellow. The transformation is coming along nicely and will hopefully attract more brides (and grooms I guess. Do they really have a say though? 😉) to choose Trinity.
Things to put on your Calendar
- Next Monday: Advent Study Week 4. I am teaching and praying (Lord help us all) and Justin is cooking (that’s reason to show up!) VOTE IN THE POLL DOWN BELOW OR YOU ARE NOT GETTING JUSTIN’S FOOD. (ok, you’ll still get food, but really, let’s remember to practice our God given right as Americans and vote!🇺🇸🇺🇸)
Prayer Requests
- Safe Travels for everyone who is traveling over the holidays!
- Baby Amelia (there are no more treatment options. We are praying for a healing miracle. And comfort and peace for the Britell family)
- That our society becomes more tolerant and loving and stops resorting to fear and hate.
- Brett’s Mom Carol (continued prayers for healing)
- Brooke (pray for no more fear at her work)
- The Day Babies (for a continued healthy pregnancy and excitement to meet these two!)
- Stuart’s Dad Rick (healing after a health scare)
- Trinity UMC (all our finances and ministries)
- The Yao Ming family (it’s tough being tall, y’all)
Things that made me laugh and smile
- With lots of scary and disheartening stuff going on in the world, some hope.
- Its not Christmas to me without hearing Handel’s Hallelujah, this blog talks about the big pause at the end.
- It would cost you $2,855 to have 12 drummers drumming, and a minor economics lesson.
- Some last minute Christmas gift ideas. (hint: I would love the artist’s trip to Italy😊)
- Love that these “Santa helpers” are making kid’s Christmas’s even more special!
And now, a sneak peek at the Bridal Suite Transformation
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