Sorry for my lack of posting during these past two weeks. I have been a little busy!! End of the year stuff with church functions, parties and planning for 2010 has been extra crazy for some reason this year! Here are my top five Christmas highlight -- not in any specific order:
1. HIStory - Our church performed an original musical called HIStory which traced the life and impact of Christ from eternity past to eternity present and then focused on the significence of His coming to earth to fullfil His ultimate goal -- get back into relationship with us! Our worship pastor and the worship leaders of our church plants collaborated on the music and I wrote the narration. we held it at LBC and about 600+ were in attendance. A few people came to Christ.
2. Christmas Blockbuster Sermon Series - A few years ago, after being disilussioed with Christmas, I made a real effort to bump up my sermons. This year I went real creative using movie titles and themes to weave in different aspects of the Christmas story.
3. Operation Christmas Blessing - about three years ago we began pooling our resources and began giving back to needy people - as a church. On op of that an outside donor gave a sizeable check to provide gift cards to people in our church. This year we made a real impact and there were opportunities to actually go and serve some organizations.
4. Christmas Eve services - just three starting the Christmas EveEVE -- our theme was LIGHT - who is the true light and how do we know who he is. Using the theme from A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Another blockbuster) we looked the ghosts of xmas past, future and present and learned that Jesus is the true light and we need to extinguish all other lights in our lights to rely solely on the true light.
5. Christmas in Lewistown - we had a great family Christmas with the Rodkey Family. We left after the last service and got up their around 11PM. I got to sleep in and relax for once on a Christmas morning (usually driving or travelling). Rest of the fam arrive midday - dinner, gifts, games, reading of the xmas story and then we stayed over night. It was a peaceful and joyous day.
Wishing you and yours a Happy New Year!