Merry Christmas

Christmas Caroling by Lindsay and Leslie

The girls wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. Below is three Christmas songs for everyones enjoyment. Consider this our Christmas card! :-) You will see how Leslie is Lindsay's biggest fan... uh... biggest copycat. She is able to add her own flair to the ending of the song however! Enjoy!!

JINGLE BELLS


AWAY IN THE MANGER!


FELIZ NAVIDAD

First Baptist McKinney Christmas Eve Service

This is our Lead Pastor. He is also an art major and brings artwork as a way to glorify God with the ability he has been given. Truly a great form of Worship. This is pretty neat piece too. You can thank God for sending his Son as you are watching. This was sent out as a preview for our Christmas Eve services coming on Monday.

Funny

A dear friend in Washington sent me this email about living in Texas. And it is so true!! I just want to add one thing. I knew we lived in Texas when we were driving behind a truck with four deer legs sticking out of the back! Oh and when you see a Texas orange Peterbuilt pickup truck (not a semi) with huge set of longhorns on the front grill driving to Walmart.

I can probably list a million other things that make Texas "special."

:-)

If you don't like the Weather, wait 20 min.

That is what they say in Texas. If you don't like the weather in Texas, just wait 20 minutes. Well that is exactly what it has been like. On Friday and Saturday of last week we had 85 degrees. The Christmas Journey was nice. On Sunday we were cleaning the different scenes from the Christmas Journey and it was 32 degrees outside. CRAZY! Well, on Tuesday we woke up to 75 degrees again. The picture below is of a cold front that moved through at 3pm CST yesterday. You can see the 20 degree change once the storm pasted through. Today it is in the high 30's again, and they say we should not have to use the air conditioning again until March....at the earliest! :-)

Christmas Journey

Some of you have heard that I was involved in our church's program called Christmas Journey. I did not have any speaking to do. Just sit and pretend to take the Lord's Supper for four hours a night. This is a drive through Nativity Scene. We have 15 different scenes from Jesus' life beginning with His birth and ending with His ascension. As you enter in your car, you are given a CD that plays while you drive from scene to scene. It is a narration of the different things you are looking at and in turn presents a clear gospel message.

It takes many weeks to get ready for and we have over 600 cast members from the church taking part. It ran Wednesday - Saturday nights. 6pm - 9pm on Wed. & Thur. & 6pm - 10pm Fri. & Sat. However, it really ended about 30min after the cut off because it takes approximately 40-45 min. to drive through the whole thing and we were one of the last scenes. We had about 10,000 people come through over all four days. I did a little asking tonight and found out that there will be many calls over the next week to individuals who either made a decision or are looking for a church home.....or just had questions. There are contact cards that are filled out as you drive through.

Below are a few pictures taken from the first night as Katie and the girls drove through and then from tonight as I snapped a few before we got started.



This picture was of the line of cars Katie was behind waiting for the gates to open on Wednesday.


The Girls eating it up!
Wide shot of Bethlehem .
Closer view of Bethlehem.
Jesus and the thieves on the Cross. These are real people. They subbed out every 20 min.
Us at the Last supper. I am on the far right. We were ask to not wear head coverings for the rest of the week even though we were told to have head coverings. It made sense to not have the coverings as we were supposed to be indoors.
A shot of the Last Supper tonight before we got started. The camera bag and cell phone were removed before the first car came through. I am the second from the right.

Me!
Me and three others. Bryan Faus is our Minister of Discipleship. He is the first one the left and yes, his beard is painted on. Dont ask me what the guy on my left is doing!
This is the trial scene where Barabbas is freed in stead of Jesus. Bet you did not know that golf carts were used in Jesus time???


The Open Tomb!