Coming to a close

This week, we decided to begin our "going away" celebrations for the 4th semester students.  Monday began with a simple ribbon decoration on their desks. Tuesday progressed with "snow" paintings on their desks. Wednesday a simple trophy, because they hit the mark ;) , awaited them. Thursday, balloons with colors from their home country, Canada, greeted them. Friday was sealed with a plethora of "post its" adorning the tops of their desks with random, loving, warm, messages from some of the other students. Now to plan for next week...
   This past friday, a few of us headed down to Elderwood Senior care.  We put on quite a show for them, a little different than what we usually do.  We started out by singing some christmas songs, which they seemed to enjoy very much.  Then Suzanne, Stephanie and Katie, did a special, singing/playing Mary's Boy Child.  Then some of the students did a small skit, which was very entertaining. The basic idea of it was: what if none of the shepherds would have dared to believe our savior was going to visit them that night? Interesting to think, how these lowly shepherds made such a difference even till this day, because they simply believed. Then Chris gave a great message about the importance of receiving Jesus in our lives. Pastor Paul Caram was telling us today how there was this elderly lady that was baptized being 102 years young, its never too late.  I know there were few there that did feel the need for Jesus in their hearts and I pray that they did or will make the the choice to say yes. We closed off by singing a few more carols and chatting with some of those that came out.  It was a true blessing to be with them. Afterwards, a few of us grabbed a snack and stopped at a random gazebo in town to enjoy Karen's new Rebel.  And that ended the night.