Hi everyone. I realize it has been a while since our last newsletter/blog. It seems we blink and weeks flicker by. We are at mid-December with Christmas right around the corner.Without repeating too much from the earlier blogs, we had two major events in October. Our Halloween outreach (see Nov. 2 blog) at the local mall was a wonderful success. Over 500 hundred people were touched by our church. Earlier in the month our annual "splash day" was also well attended.
Since our last blog we had the delight of having our son Ben and his wife Tiffany visit us for ten days. Those visits are few and far between so we took a few days off to be with them. Early, Thanksgiving Day, they headed back to MI and we shared a turkey with friends and family later on that afternoon. The Sunday before we celebrated Thanksgiving as a church.
The church has been preparing for 2010. Mid-November we had our annual ministries' fair. Around half of the adults signed up to work in one of our sixteen different ministries. As soon as that bit of housekeeping was done, we prepared for the election of deacons, a bi-annual event in our church. The ordination ceremony is set for the 27 of December.
These past two weeks we have started the big push to have everything ready for a church Christmas party the 18th of December. The party is actually an outreach effort. A special band is coming in to play as well as a father/son duo. Puppeteers will provide a lesson and entertainment for the children. Without going into details, several other activities are on the schedule for that evening. We are hoping to have in excess of 150 for the event.
On to personal matters; last Thursday Mary had foot surgery so she will be laid up for 3-4 weeks. So far it seems she is healing well.
Also, we celebrated 35 years of marriage Saturday, December 12. What a wonder venture/adventure it has been. We have been blessed.
Thanks for your continued interest in our efforts in Puerto Rico.
Johnathan and Mary Reece
Missionaries to Puerto Rico
1 comment:
Are you sure the Christmas party isn't just a good excuse to throw yourself a big birthday party, John? Ha, ha! Hope the party's a huge success for the Lord, and that you have a great birthday too!
Anita Archer
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