Here I am coming up on my 57th Christmas and Amy's on her 37th !
Our decorations for the church building are complete. If you've ever watched National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase you'll know what I mean when I say that I untangled 3 huge knots of old Christmas lights to get the job done.
Susan, the administrator/owner of the church building decorated the outside with lights surrounding the statue of Mary on the east side. We have only three electrical outlets inside and none on the outside so she ran an extension from her house next door to illuminate the statue. I must say it looks nice at night.
I'm continuing preparations on my Christmas Day sermon which is on the Song of Mary...the Magnificat. I plan on speaking as well on Zechariah's prophecy, the "Nunc Dimittis" or Simeon's prophecy and Hannah's Song in I Samuel to give the church an idea of Israel's Messianic hope and expectations of the dawning of a new era or the Age to Come during the first century.
All of this will be extrapolated over to us Gentiles as well...that in Yeshua(Jesus) God's plan of Salvation becomes a revelation to the Gentiles and a glory to Israel.
Pastor Craig will officiate at the evening service at 6pm. His wife, Christy, as well as others from the main campus on Floyd Hill will help with providing the food.
Yesterday I passed out invitations to people on the streets and at businesses for the Christmas Day Celebration at our Idaho Springs Campus. I dropped some invites off for the "J1s" who are the foreign/international workers invited here by local shops to help out during the holidays. They are mostly young people from Asia and South America who are here without the benefit of family and friends. I'm hoping we, the church, in Idaho Springs can make this day better for them while at the same time inviting them to the "Banquet of Christ."
Pics show the illuminated Mary and Amy hard at work at Beau Jos and one of the huge Christmas light knots I had to untangle.
May Christ's love be with you all today!
BR Schoenbein
Amy Schoenbein
December 13, 2016- Wednesday
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