One Hundred Sixty Nine!

Hello,
It's 7:59 Sunday night, and we're having our evaluation meeting. I just sneaked in here to jot a note. WOW! 169 people were at our church today!
The service went well, but compared to our normal high standards, from our evaluation, it was rather blah. (Eric, I, and Dave--our worship pastor--are pretty tired, and we think it reflected in our service today.) However, we had around 10 first time families/individuals, and about 10 second timers also. Eric spoke on families, and it was really practical (and scriptural, of course).
We started a "resource table" today for the first time. We're making available (at cost) a small variety of books on the topic of the current message series, as well as music cd's and cd sets of the previous series. Several people made use of ths ministry today, which was pretty neat.

Tomorrow I have to write & postmark my final paper for Business Law. Then I'm done with school until January. Eric is trying to avoid scheduling meetings this week, in the interest of getting some rest and refueling to prepare for our big Christmas Sunday next week. Please pray for me, as I need to write 3 drama sketches to be used in that service, and I'm a little short of ideas right now. I'll be thinking about that after I write my paper. We have another Christmas party to host Tuesday night, and then Thursday night we get to go to a dinner theater for the evening! I'm looking forward to that!

Please remember to email and tell us what you're up to!
Miss you all,
Kelly