CHRISTMAS EVE

Join us for the Christmas Eve service at Wesley at 6PM! This service is designed to be at a family friendly time, so if enough of us come, they might continue to offer it!

May this holiday season find you all blessed with family and friends and the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Merry Christmas!

He's Almost Here...

We've had a week FILLED with holiday events. The youth did a great job with "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". I know everyone had a good time; it was fun to laugh at the jokes (intended and unintended). Wednesday night the children did a wonderful job with their presentation. I was pleased so many people stayed to watch the performance. The Cherub Choir was so full of personality, and the SPIRIT kids had a great sound for such a small group. Any opportunity to see the puppets is a treat, too!

All these fun events can leave us feeling run-around and tired; maybe even a little crabby. I know on Wednesday I started my day at 7:30 and got home around 9PM (I had an event AFTER church, too!) and was pooped. But being in fellowship with all of you really helped lift my spirits and stay in the spirit of the season. And isn't that the reason for these holiday season special events - to give us a moment out of the ordinary to come together and worship? As tempting as it is to cut things from the schedule, I am choosing to embrace them as opportunities, despite the inconvenience. So far, works for me... anyone else have survival tips?

Friday Night Fun

Friday's holiday get together proved full of laughs! Most of the class was able to attend, and we managed to completely redesign the back room at Monterrey's, as well as work one poor server to death. The ornament exchange was tons of fun, with much stealing, opening and ooh's and aahs. The best behaved guest was Noah Harrell, not much of a suprise considering the company. Merry Christmas to all, and to all a Good Night!

You never know...

Sometimes you learn things about people you never knew.... 

Thankful Hearts

Thanks to Mike Massey for leading thought-provoking discussion on Thanksgiving today. The class decided today to pursue the study around "Making Children Mind Without Losing Yours" by Dr. Kevin Leman. We will aim to order materials and start after the first of the year. The Rices will facilitate that approximately 12 week course of study. Kelley will see that the church community is invited to join us. It is our hope to welcome new members, or even another whole class for this study!
Hope to see everyone for Hanging of the Greens tonight - and start our Holiday season off well!

Sunday's Readings

I know this is so late as to be useless, but should anyone wish to refer to these after class tomorrow, I'm posting them.
The readings I'll be talking about tomorrow are:
Psalm 100
Matthew 25:35-40

We will talk about our blessings, and what God REALLY wants us to be thankful for.

See you there!

Class Photo Fall 05

 

More Trunk or Treat

 

Treat? or Trunk?

 

Welcome to Homebuilders! It is our hope that you will use this blog to get information about class activities, share prayer requests, continue discussions from class, and initiate discussion about things you may be struggling with.

Special thanks to Michael Massey and crew for serving breakfast to the African Children's Choir this morning. They did a wonderful job as always, and I'm sure were as blessed by the serving as the served were blessed by the food. We're proud of you guys!

Sunday, November 20 - class will be facilitated by Jennifer White, topic: thankfulness. Can't give you a lectionary reading yet, working on picking one from the several... I'll post when I have it! - Jenn