It may not be officially Winter yet but someone forgot to tell Mother Nature.  As I am writing this, the weather is below freezing and so am I.  We may be in for a cold winter this year so  let’s just remember those 100 degree days last July and August and we can sit back and enjoy the cold.  The weather sure has put a damper on the last two Sundays, as attendance is down, but everyone is now back from Vacation’s and I am hoping for more people to be able to attend each week.  My family had a great vacation and we are very glad to be back in town.  We are ready to get back in the swing of things and I hope you are too.   We will celebrate our Birthdays and Anniversary’s this week after church and on the 20Th we will have our Christmas party.  The Senior Moments will sing for us as well on the 20Th.  Then Summitt will be back on the 27Th.  I hope you will make plans not to miss a service the rest of the year.  Now if I could just get you to make that promise in January instead of December!

This week I am going to be reading The Christmas story. We read this every year before Christmas.  It is found in Luke the 2ND chapter verses 8-20.  This is one of the few verses I like better in the King James version, maybe because I have heard it so much read like that as a child, but it is just such a beautiful story.  The question I have this week is Why the Shepherd’s?  Of all the people to be at the birth of Christ why them.  I think there is a very good reason, I want you to read these verses this week and see if you come up with the same theory as I did.

As the year is coming to a very quick end I am so grateful for all the new friends I have made over this year. I am also so very very thankful for the longtime relationships I have that support this ministry and our goal to reach out to the disabled in this community.  God has given me a dream and all of you are a part of this dream.  I believe there will be many changes in this ministry in 2010 and they will be for the benefit of the Kingdom of God.  We will be able to share with more people and God will pour out his blessings on us if we have prepared ourselves to receive them.  Remember last week I told you how do we prepare for the coming Messiah?  By repentance and sharing the gifts given to us by our Heavenly Father.  If we do this God is prepared to bless us beyond our biggest dreams.  He will do his part I promise you, will we do ours?  I know we will!  I am exacted about seeing each and every one of you this week and my Family wish you a Very Merry Christmas.  Make this Christmas the best ever by doing someting really special for someone that needs to feel that they matter and that someone loves them.  You would be amazed at how many people need to feel that including your pastor.  I speak blessing on you and your family and I pray that this will be your best Christmas ever!

Pastor David & Pris