Weekend of "Joy"

This last weekend was definitely a weekend to remember. On Friday we had our first C3 Partner Banquet. What a riot! As everyone gathered at church at 6 p.m. for a "volunteer rally" we surprised them and had buses there to take them to an undisclosed location! We wheeled them to Andre's Banquet Center and surprised them with a great time! As soon as I locate some pics I'll post them. We had 10 top C3 Partners: Anthony Lewis, James Burgess, Weezul Adams, Rebecca Skinner, Mandy Pyle, Tom Russell, Chuck Edmunson, Rachel Wethers, Mike Akers and Vince Kluge. Then we awarded our first Servant of the Year Award to Carol Haney. It was a tear fest! What a great night to honor some real champions.


Then on Sunday night we had a terrific Night Of Joy. Scott Reed and the music dept. did an outstanding job of ushering us into the Season of Joy. Here's some pics.

The first one features the team "Redeemed". They
were fantastic!

Here's one of Pastor Scott and the choir.



Then there was lovely Norene and Holly and their amazing gift!



I already have heard of at least one who prayed to receive Christ on Sunday night. Joy was definitely in Heaven too.

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Last Sunday night was a blast. I was entertained and totally blown away by the talent on display from our children's ministry. Rachel Wethers (director) and her team did such an excellent job of pulling the artistic ability out of the kids that I was asking my wife, "Who are these teen-agers?" They were demonstrating ability well beyond their short life span.

So many had an amazing number of lines to remember and were outstanding. All the little actors and actresses did a great job of staying in character and of course, their singing ability wasn't bad either. Here's a couple of pics:


This one shows Frankie Mantia as "Shep" who was convincing as a comedian cowhand.


Here's the final scene with a bunch of great champions for God! I'm so proud of our children's ministry. It is a ministry of excellence and our leaders demonstrate how much they love our kids.