Post-Christmas Thoughts
Dec/072
We had a dynamite Christmas in our family this year. I loved it! Because I devoted all of my time to my family over the last few days, I'm just now able to process some the following thoughts.
-Our Christmas services at ACC were stellar! The atmosphere on Sunday was absolutely dancing! I loved being able to celebrate in such an upbeat and exciting atmosphere. The drama was phenomenal, the music was rolling, and the hot chocolate surprise was the icing on the cake. It was a great day.
-Our Christmas Eve service blew me away. Seriously, it exceeded our expectations in every possible way, including attendance. We had more than double the number of people that we expected. We said that moving the service to 9:00 pm was an experiment. Safe to say that the experiment was a success! A big thanks to Yance and Joe (and anybody else I missed) for setting up chairs like madmen at about 8:55 pm!
-Here's an Andrew Peterson video of the song, Gather 'Round, Ye Children, Come. It's the song that our band played on Christmas Eve. Man, I love this song!
-It was so awesome to have Jim Willison back from Iraq and in attendance on Christmas Eve! I actually knew that he was coming home, but I was sworn to secrecy. Trust me, it was not an easy secret to keep. What a Christmas present for that family! Welcome home, Jim!
-I've said it before and I'll say it again. Nicki and I are blessed to have families that can actually enjoy being together. So many people don't have that blessing.
-I love being a dad…especially at Christmastime. Nothing like it.
-Can't wait for Christmas '08!
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11:15 am on December 27th, 2007
Stinks that we had to miss the Christmas Eve service. Sounds like it was great. Awesome to hear that Jim is back! What timing!
12:01 pm on December 27th, 2007
I brought friends and they were impressed how special everyone made her kids feel. On stage and like the whole thing was for them.. Two thumbs up! :)