Tonight, we will celebrate Christmas with our church family in a candlelight service. I’m looking forward to a very special and meaningful time of worship with a wonderful bunch of folks whom I have grown to love over the past fourteen months in which God has allowed me to serve as their pastor.
Immediately that service ends, my wife, two young children, and I will be piling into the minivan for the 1,036 mile journey to Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of Papa Verne and Grandma Linda. We’re looking forward to a relaxing time with family, and our first real vacation in over 18 months. We plan to be back home on January 4 or 5.
Obviously, I’ll not be posting much between now and then. I will be posting the wrap-up for this week’s NFL picks, then the wrap-up of the entire contest after the New Year’s Eve games, and I will be checking email.
To all who have read this blog in 2006, my humble thanks. May you experience the hope and joy of Jesus, our Emmanuel, and may you have a blessed 2007. See you then.
on Dec 24th, 2006 at 9:54 am
A Christ blessed Christmas, Wes
cb, Villa and the Gang
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on Dec 24th, 2006 at 11:32 am
Wes,
We, too, are leaving after our own candlelight service tonight, although I’m only going 460 miles or so.
I guess the only people on the highway at 1:00 this morning will be me, you, old Saint Nick, and a bunch of drunk people.
Drive safely! Those drunk people are dangerous, and people have been known to be run over by a reindeer.
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on Dec 24th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
Best wishes for a most blessed Christmas. Drive carefully, I hear that there that the roads are going to be full of preachers.
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on Dec 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
I think we’ll go over to the McKay’s this evening. I think it’s about 6 miles and takes about 15 minutes. Should be back by 10.
Kevin, is there a way I can recognize preachers’ cars coming at me, so I can pull over in time, and pray?
CB I believe I can handle. I THINK I’ve memorized all HIS vehicles.
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