Monday

 Today was another day with hours spent at church.  The children rehearsed Sunday after the second service for the five o'clock service on Christmas Eve and the sanctuary needed to be reset for the coming Sunday morning worship time.  I met Heidi at 10 and we left the church at 1:30.  Another good chunk of the day was spent getting ready for the weekend.  

We tried many things and some worked and some didn't and we kept trying until we were satisfied with everything.  I say there is always a way.  We just need to be patient with ourselves in finding it. The plan needed to eliminate as many things we could that would cause extra work for us on Christmas Eve services.  Doing that for three services that are vastly different was the puzzle to solve.  Some things we could fix, some things we couldn't fix.  

This will be in place for the 11:00 am service as well as the family worship service at 5 pm. This is the northern part of the chancel area.  The donkey will be moved with stronger muscles to the back of the palm plants.  The youth will relate the Bethlehem story on this side of the chancel area. 


The southern end of the chancel area is where people will hear a more modern-day Christmas story.  The jr and sr. high school students will sing here.  Mary will be in place for the Sunday 11 am service but removed for the evening services.  At the 7 and 11 service, the platforms will be removed.  The 7 pm service is a communion service and the 11:00 features lessons and carols.  

We'll add more pink poinsettia to the altar area for Sunday morning.  Mary will have more emphasis for the fourth Sunday by way of the lectionaries directive. Sunday evening the flowers will be white.

                                                This banner is to the right of the altar.



        
                                                        This banner is to the left of the altar. Emmanuel
So today we tried different ways to place visuals.  I think we have made a difference, keeping things fresh.  Those words come to me often as I heard them years ago from mentor Doris Douglas a teacher and friend steeped in the world of liturgical visuals. 

We were ready to leave the church as a snowstorm blew through.  What a feast for my eyes while taking pictures in the church courtyard.  




                                                Now sitting on my dining room table.                                                                                                      Doug thought I was in the florist business.                                                                          Sometime this week I'll be heading to church with them, filling the altar area. 

            After leaving church once again I went directly to Lowes and picked up sale-priced Poinsettia.  

So there was supper and time to sit watching another football game. There was good ball this weekend. Most of the teams I wanted to win did win.  Yeah for the Browns, Buffalo, Colts and more!  Boo cod Seattle tonight!  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Thursday

Image
Kimmy did it again.  She guided me to the spot where now there is a change made in the blog settings  allowing comments.  If you had a google account you could do that already.  At least  that's what I think I'm reading.  So comment away when you want to.  Will be fun.                             I'm looking forward to a whole bunch of different zinnias this summer.   Finger report.  It's doing fine with a major clean up today. One reason for no butterfly but a small club is to pad the site.  Typing is improving.  The day brought more sewing with four more bags completed and one waiting for velcro which should arrive tomorrow via Amazon.  Another package of D rings should be included to finish up a few cover ups.  It's been a busy sewing season with some new challenges that keep the sewing room interesting.  I must dig through my fabric for more options.   Lots of meal worms are disappearing again.  Most of the time it's because the pair of Blue Birds are having
Read more

Wed. I'm back Thanks be to God!

Image
This time I hope I'm back for a very long time.  The computer with pictures is finally a go and all the excitement of Sunday is over.   I don't know if I've recovered yet.  There are a few more days before the next Sunday.   For those few who don't know it was another hospital stay of a couple of days.  And it all started in the pew at church with a pass out  seizure type of thing. I think something to do with high sugar perhaps.  The whole service came to a halt for a while.  How embarrassing with a carry out by the good old EMTS.   Lots of tests I guess.  I don't remember a thing until Sunday evening with a trip into a scan machine.  I got released Tuesday and today I visited my primary care doctor for answers and I'm pretty well satisfied.  Two days in bed have really made me wobbly so I'm pretty careful about moving around.  It should get better soon.  I won't be driving for a while because of the seizure.  That's a huge bummer.  The seizure medi
Read more

Saturday.

Image
 Today was the every other Saturday for Soup Kitchen work at church.  But before that I was up at 6 with breakfast and a little sewing time.  By 8 I was on my way to church to be at the door when Tosha would be arriving.  Sarah Ellen is in Italy for the week.  One person short makes a whole lot of difference when the soup kitchen crew is at it's usually small size.  Jack arrived earlier than usual so that was a big help and the new Cindy crew of two more folks made work time even easier.  Sometimes I feel like it's a guess who is coming to work now added to the guess who is coming to lunch.  The crowd wasn't as large as usual.  We just never know.  I say it's a crap shot not to be figured out!                                                I hope to have a lot of these orange cosmos this summer.   The morning work flew along.  I talked with Heidi about my ideas for Easter decorations.  The Easter banners are back at church and a few more decisions have been made.  Easte
Read more