Sunday, December 21, 2008

Christmas Sunday morning...

We had a wonderful time at church this morning, celebrating the Birth of our Savior.

Here's some video from the service...

Our toddler class singing "Joy to the World"...



Our Pre-K class singing "The First Noel"...




Our K-2 and 3-5 classes combined to sing "Jesus Is"...


Margaret closed out our service by playing "Silent Night"...thank you, Margaret!...


Friday, December 19, 2008

Great Job, Children's Choir!!

Our Children's Choir held their first ever concert tonight. They did a wonderful job.
Thank you to everyone who came tonight...it was such a blessing to have so many come to cheer the kids on!

The "Manger Song" with speaking parts...




"Hallelujah, it came true"...





Sunday, December 14, 2008

Sunday's announcements

This Friday, December 19th, the children's choir will be performing their Christmas concert at 7:30. There will be a reception following. Please come listen to the kids. They've worked so hard! And please bring a dessert to share for the reception. See you Friday night.

This Saturday, December 20th, at 6PM will be our annual Christmas potato party. Once again, the Wards have graciously offered their home for our party. The church provides the potatoes, and everyone attending is asked to bring their favorite topping and a dessert to share. We will also so our traditional caroling hayride through Mt. Dora. It's good fun, and you won't want to miss it :-). The address is 1554 Hilltop Drive Mt. Dora. From 441, turn onto Donnelly heading toward downtown Mt. Dora. Turn right at the light at 11th Ave. Turn right on Hilltop. Their house is about half way down on the right hand side.

This Sunday, December 22nd, will be the ladies' Titus Two Cookie Exchange. Again, Kelly Robertson has graciously offered her house. We will get together at 2 until ??? Bring you favorite Christmas cookies to share and any holiday projects you need to do like wrapping presents or addressing cards, etc. We'll eat and get our tasks done while enjoying each other's company. Directions will be available at church on Sunday OR by e-mail from Amy at amy@esanthony.com.

The youth group is hand delivering Christmas cards from CCOTL members to other CCOTL members as a fundraiser for Pennies for Bella. Instead of giving the post office your .42 per card for stamps, give a per-card donation to the youth for Bella's fund, and they will deliver the cards at church for you.

Celebrate Recovery will have their 2nd annual "Kick-Off" on January 6th. A spaghetti dinner will be available at 6 and the program starts at 7. Celebrate Recovery is for anyone with a hurt, hang-up, or habit. Come check it out on January 6th! Childcare is available.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Bella Update

Isabella has had her transplant (around 1 today) and she, at last report, was doing fine afterward. Yea!