FindingJoy4Eternity Blog

It's not often that I'm at one of our churches when there is a guest speaker so today I took advantage of that!  :)  Yesterday I made a loaf of artisan bread as a thank you for sharing the Bread of Life with our congregation.

We had a church wide birthday party social today.  The tables were decorated by months and there were fun games to play.  Of course there was cake and ice cream (and vegan cinnamon rolls!), but my favorite part was the Birthday Thank Offering. Ellen White talks about teaching children to give back thank offerings to God for the mercies we have received throughout the year.  We as grown-ups should practice this as well.  At our party we had an offering collection container and let everyone know that we were collecting a freewill offering that was meant to be a 'thank you' to the Lord for the many blessings He has given to us.  Towards the end of the party, we discussed where we wanted to donate our money.  I can't say quite yet because it hasn't made it to the recipients yet, but it's someone near and dear to the heart of our church.  Just a few people really and we'll make a big difference for Jesus!

This was the new Christmas GLOW pack that the kids and I made up.  We had some leftover mints and finally came up with this idea!  What fun we had assembling these while we listened to our favorite Christmas story -- The Last Stop Cafe. We handed these out to all sorts of people, but we also shared them with our church families so that they could share them with those they know.