I’ve learned that not everyone can reach me with the new address at gmail.  I still get and send from msn, so if one doesn’t work try  the other.  The technician in India was as confused as I was after two hours.
Fran Mobley

Just a reminder to all Families and Friends about the Christmas Musical:

GOD’s GREAT LOVE:  THE INFANT KING

Final Performance
Wednesday, December 19th – 7pm
(A Punch & Cookie Reception will follow the performance in the Overflow Area)

We would like all those participating to arrive by 6:15pm!

The Choir will meet in the choir room. Praise Team set-up on the stage.  Kidszone children (PK4 – 5th) meeting in the Kidszone/Promiseland room (if your child is wearing a costume, you might want to bring a change of clothes to wear under the costume.)  The Youth will meet in the overflow (back of Sanctuary)

Please join us and forward this email to your family, friends and neighbors!

We are asking for donations of Cookies for the reception following the performance.  Please drop them off in the overflow area by 6:15pm.

There is no Wednesday night dinner and classes this week.  They will resume after the holidays on January 9th, 2013.

Have a Blessed Holiday Season!

Good morning,
I believe there is a saying, “the best laid plans of mice and men,” and I had one of those days yesterday.  I took a day off to do some baking, clean house and do some errands.  Not a day off, just a change of pace.  And I love to bake and sometimes do a good job of it.
Well, I had to disagree with a saying that Princess Grace Kelly said to her daughter:”  If you can read you can cook.”  Well I can read and follow recipes that I’ve made many times and they all turned out wrong anyway.  Who can mess up oatmeal or toll house cookies?  Even a child can do it.  Perhaps I should have borrowed someone’s child.  Eating my mistakes is almost like the saying, “Make your words sweet in case you have to eat them.”
I relate my baking yesterday as to that of a parent raising a child.  You try to do exactly as the recipe says and yet you don’t know if it’ll turn out perfect or not.  It’ll take a while to see the finished product.  Maybe I’ll blame it on the humidity, which is much like life.  Some things you have to live with and others, you try to improve.
Proverbs 22:8 says:  “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is is old he will not turn from it.” (NIV).
As I read the Christmas story and the events in Jesus’s life, I realize that Mary didn’t always understand her Son, but “kept all these things and pondered them in her heart.”  Luke 2:19.
God, the things that turn out wrong that were intended to be good, help us to understand.  Regardless of the “recipe” some days are just not good baking days, but even flat cookies taste good.  And if there is a next time, they might turn out differently.  Forgive our mistakes, which are many, and thank You for Your continued love and faithfulness.  In the name of Your Son Jesus Christ, our Savior.  Amen.
In His service,
Fran