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2016 Christmas Party

December 11, 2016

5:30pm – 7:30pm

We are so thankful for the coming and birth of our Savior, Jesus!  It is a birthday like no other!  A birthday that we celebrate with great excitement and anticipation each and every year.

As those who have been adopted into the family of God and made brothers and sisters of Jesus, we don't want to neglect gathering together to celebrate Him.  So in addition to our Sunday mornings of worship, we are going to gather together and celebrate our Savior's birth with a Christmas party!

We'll meet at Hickory Christian Academy on Sunday night, December 11th for dinner and a time of fun and fellowship!  As we rejoice and have fun as a family of believers, as we throw a party in celebration of Jesus, we believe He will be honored and glorified, seeing His people rejoicing in Him!

Here is a link to the meal sign-up.  We will be serving honey glazed ham as the main entree but would like for you all to click on the link and sign-up for one or more of the items in order to help provide the side dishes, rolls and desserts.  (Escalate will provide the drinks, paper products, and utensils.)

In addition to sharing a meal together we wanted to incorporate a couple of other things into our Christmas party.  We want there to be an element of FUN involved.  So throughout the night there will be several fun and silly games in which you can choose to participate if you would like.  We also want there to be an element of SERVING involved.  So we are going to provide a couple of ways for you to 'serve' others - both internationally and locally.  First, we are going to have a collection basket available where you can give to the Bugnars' language tutors that we have been encouraging you to help us with the last few weeks.  If you have already given you don't have to give again.  But if you haven't given yet, we wanted to incorporate this into our Christmas party.  Second (on a local level), we would like for you to bring an item (or items) that would help some of the homeless in our area.  The cold weather is really starting to set in, so items like blankets, coats, warm socks, warm hats, and thermal underwear are all going to be needed in the days ahead.  We'll have a table set aside where you can drop off those items and we will deliver them to one of the local homeless ministries.  Third, we'll have a "Christmas Card" table where we would love for you to take a minute or two of your night to write an encouraging Christmas note to someone.  Do you have a non-believing friend, neighbor, or co-worker that you could write an encouraging note to?  Would you take a minute to write an encouraging note to a local teacher?  We'll have a table set up with Christmas cards and pens available.  We'd love for you to take a minute or two of your night to fill one of those cards out and help us show the love of Christ in a simple and tangible way through your words of encouragement.    

We think this party will be filled with fun!  So we hope you'll make plans to join us on Sunday night in order to celebrate Jesus' birthday with us!

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