Another Busy Weekend...
I can't believe a week has gone by since my last post! As I'm sure you've figured out by now, it's been quite busy around here. Here's what we've been up to...
We had some precious people over for dinner Friday night, the three Muelenberg kids. I say kids, they are in their twenty's and they certainly don't act like "kids", but they are quite a lot younger than us, thus the title! They are from Holland and are currently working at various ministry positions at our church. We were hypnotized by their testimonies. I love hearing people's stories, but theirs was for the record books... they grew up with their parents using an ice cream truck to smuggle Bible's into Macedonia...I'd say that takes the cake!
So we had a wonderful time getting to know them. Our kids loved being with them as Michal, Ephraim, and Reuben took such an interest in each of them. We will be having them over again, I can tell you that!
I had another event to work at the church this weekend which consumed most all of my weekend. It was a pastor's reception and included about 45 people on Saturday night and 21 on Sunday afternoon. It was dissimilar to any event we've done in the past. The main differences being size and setting. Normally we do very large events, hosting 200-500. We also used real table settings, not paper or plastic, and we actually plated the food and served individually, no buffet.
Friday we had a team of about six help with setting up the room and tables. Saturday another friend and I spent from 10:30 to 3 p.m. making the flower arrangements and settling some finishing touches. We had just enough time to go home, shower, change and be back at the church at 4:30 to meet the rest of the team and go over last minute details.
After the reception we had to reset the tables for the next day so we all arrived home late that night and returned Sunday morning at 10:30. Sunday was a repeat, except for when the reception was over we had to box up all of the rented tableware and put all the decor items away. I got home around 3 o'clock.
At 4:30 we had small group bible study so I had just enough time to change, take a 15 minute nap and head out one more time!
All in all it was a great weekend. A little overbooked, but it turned out fine. I can breathe now for a couple of weeks!
posted by Kushmama @ 8:16 AM
2 Comments:
Wouldn't it be nice if you lived close enough that we could have you do a small intimate dinner for, say, 3 extra people at the Goeppner dinner?
Amazing how such a brief contact on the other side of the world makes such a lasting impact!
The flower arrangements look beautiful- what a neat thing- is this a ministry through your church, or a job?
Looking forward to keeping in touch!
Debbie
Hey girl! We're counting on doing dinner with your new, precious family! This time I promise you'll get your meal! Let us know when:)
The reception, we did it with our ministry team, Events/Hospitality. It's an amazing group of women and I love serving with them. Hard work can be great fun when you're doing it for the Kingdom!
By the way, I check in on your blog daily and am loving the stories and pictures!
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