Sunday, December 7, 2014

Christmas Time is Here!


Hey Friends! We are just 17 days away from Christmas, and this girl can’t wait! I love the decorations, music, ugly sweaters and all!

Since my last blog, I won first place at the Old Brooklyn Chili Cook Off making me the two year reigning champion woo-hoo! I’ve always known Mom’s Chili Recipe was good, and I am glad to see the people of Cleveland agree!

We had our second preview service. I would be lying if I said it was an easy service this time around. But God is good both in easy times and not so easy times, right? The week prior to the service we had several discouragements along the way including having no clue who would be leading music, but the Lord provided both a music leader for the time being and the encouragement we needed. We had right at 50 people at our second preview service, and we couldn’t be more excited to see all the Lord is doing in our community as He continues to draw new people bit by bit!

We went to Alabama to see my folks for Thanksgiving. We had a blast hanging out with family (especially my adorable niece Abby)! Mom kept us well fed with great food, and we totally got in to the southern spirit by going cane pole fishing in my Dad’s pond and shooting a gun for the first time….Roll Tide!


 

This coming weekend (December 13-14) we will have a mission team in town of 40 college students from South Carolina. Please pray for this to be an easy team to manage and for both us and the team to be an encouragement to one another in the Lord. We will be hosting a Winter Festival this Saturday at our local Rec Center. Please pray for lots of people from the community to not only come but also connect with our members and join us at Gateway Church Old Brooklyn. Lastly our Third Preview Service is next Sunday evening. Please pray for the Lord to draw His people to HIS Church to hear His Word.

Thanks friends for your support! May we not be overwhelmed this season by the chaos that often surrounds our Christmas Traditions, but let us be overwhelmed by the gift of God’s Grace in Christ and let the chaos fade in to the background.
Posted by at

1 comment:

  1. UnknownDecember 8, 2014 at 8:17 AM

    Prayers for you and all your helpers to have Christ's light shine through all the smiles, hugs and Merry Christmas' said throughout this Christmas season. You may not see all the people you touch but God's grace with reach them none the lest. May Yahweh's blessing flow through you like a river and spread to all who hear His message and all who see His works. Praise to God in the highest! Keep smiling and know you are in our daily prayers! So proud of the good work you are doing in His name!!! Remember He will always provide what is needed even if it isn't the same way we thought it would be.

    "Where two or more are gathered in my name I will be there" - Matt 18:20

    Love Ya Always,

    Aunt Kat

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)