Sunday, December 16, 2007

Winter weather has arrived with a vengence in many parts of the country, I hope you are safe, have heat, and are able to drive without getting stuck or sliding. It is crazy to think that my Florida family and friends are probably wearing shorts and T-shirts! Good for them!

Pray for many of us in the midwest / northeast this weekend as the forecast is predicting a more severe storm than we just had. Many of our churches are holding their Christmas programs this Sunday, I hope they will not be cancelled.

We here at Faith will be having our regular Sunday school and Adult Bible Fellowships at 9:30 AM. This will be followed by our Adult Christmas program in our 10:45 AM worship hour. The choir and readers will present the musical, "On This Very Night." This has been a more challenging piece for us, but it is coming together well. For all involved in this, don't forget our dress rehearsal tonight (Friday) at 7:00 pm - please be early.

In our 6:00 pm service our Children will present their program, "The Worst Christmas Tree." This will be a time of music and drama by our children and teens through 8th grade. They have worked diligently for months on this, please be here to see it. Don't forget, parents, to have your kids at church on Saturday before 9:00 AM until 11:00 AM for their final rehearsal. Be thinking now who you can invite to attend with you and then contact them soon.

All teens in youth group - don't forget that next Saturday, December 22 is your annual Shopping Spree outing. Bring money to buy last minute gifts as well as for supper. Be at the church by noon, and shop 'til you drop or 7:00 pm (which ever comes first!) See Dennis or Barb McMichael for questions or more information.

Plan now to attend our annual Candlelight Christmas Eve Service at 7:00 PM. This is not a long service, about an hour long, but is very special and many families have included it in their holiday tradition. I hope you will make it yours as well.

Thanks to all our ladies who baked dozens of holiday cookies to distribute to at least 40 - 50 businesses around our church. Reports came back from those who delivered them that clerks and workers were almost speechless! What a fun and wonderful ministry this is. Pray that outreaches of friendliness such as this will foster good relationships and hopefully ministry opportunities.

No picture of Nicholas this week, but rather a link to a video that Sarah and Sam sent. It is of him with them in their Bob Evans in Kokomo, and Nicholas ate his first whole piece of pie (pumpkin) himself. I know he enjoyed it, and I did not hear of any tummy ache! Click on this link, hopefully it will work for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc2PckVMsIM If it doesn't work for you, jot me an email and I will help. We look forward to seeing him again in a couple of weeks. And pray for all our college kids as they complete semester final exams and projects, then travel home. It will good to see all our own here at Faith.

Pray for all our ministries, and those of other churches, this weekend. As praises are sung, programs presented, lines probably forgotten and prompted, and parents/grandparents smiling - pray that the Lord will be honored as we all celebrate His birth into our world. And thank God for the wonderful plan of salvation He devised and provided for us all.

Pastor Don Workman

www.faithbaptiststreetsboro.org