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Monday evening, December 14, 2009
The
wedding we went to a week ago Saturday was a beautiful outside event
under palm trees. There were nearly three hundred people at reception
sit down dinner around the pool. The dinner was finally served at
midnight, so we headed home shortly after, thankful we weren’t
responsible for the clean-up on this one.
Last Wednesday we
ended our final small group study of the year with a “white elephant”
gift exchange party. Some of the folks had
never done this before, and there were a lot of laughs, as well as lots
of food. Everyone had a great time, even though
not everyone like their gift!
Yesterday
was the Christmas cantata at church. There was congregational singing
at the beginning of the service, and once again - just like the night
the teens led the service - the power went off in the region.
Thankfully, it was off for only a couple minutes during the first song.
The service was a beautiful
presentation of the
story of the birth of Jesus with the praise team, choir, soloists and
even drawings (done by one of the members) of nativity scenes included.
Around one hundred and fifty people
came out for
the service. Afterward, the people had no trouble going through the
food – especially the cookies – that was brought in. These next two
Sundays there will be other special services. (For pictures go to http://spoelhof-brazilnuts.blogspot.com/
though they are kind of hazy because of the dark auditorium)
Tomorrow I’ll get the
suitcases out so we can start packing. A
week from today we’ll be heading out to sea on board the Splendor of
the Seas on a six day Christmas cruise. It was a sweet deal of buy one
passage and get the second free for a suite with a veranda. There will
be stops at beaches from above Rio down to Santos. We are looking forward to
some “down time” together after the busy schedule of these past few
months.
This is probably the last entry
before Christmas. We trust that you, like our grandson, are
looking forward to something special! Merry Christmas!
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