The Nativity: the story of Jesus birth described in Matthew 1:18-2:12 and Luke 2:1-21. I remember when I was a child, my mom had a porcelain nativity set that we set on top of the t.v. It was a fragile set so we couldn’t play with it, but it was one Christmas decoration that we […]
Getting Ready for Christmas When You Don’t Feel Like It
I’m just a wee bit preoccupied this Christmas season. I’m in my third trimester of pregnancy, and though I feel pretty good, there are limitations on my energy and patience right now. Add to that a couple of emotionally-draining situations, I find I’m running on empty way too often. Going all-out and celebrating the holidays […]
Christ in Christmas Books for Toddlers & PreK
This coming week I’ll be gathering our Christmas books together to get ready for our annual Christmas-book-a-day tradition starting in December. We have a mixture of Jesus-focused books and other fun Christmas-themed books. Here’s a list of some of our Christ in Christmas books for toddlers and PreK: Don’t forget to stop by the Christmas […]
Operation Christmas Child Drop-Off Week
This week is Operation Christmas Child Drop-Off Week! Gather your boxes, pack them in the car and drop them off at the nearest location! Thanks to all my local friends– I have 74 boxes to drop off this week! Today our Children’s Church helped pack over 60 of them! When the children arrived at class, […]
Operation Christmas Child Boxes
This past week a local group of Girl Scouts invited me to come to their Operation Christmas Child shoebox packing party. They had decided to do boxes for girls their own age. The first thing they did was sort through the gifts and divide by type– school supplies, hygiene, toys etc. I brought the […]
