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We are a festive bunch here and that means parties, dinners, and gatherings from time to time. If you like to cook we need you!! If you’d be willing to help out occasionally with a First Wednesday dinner, making treats for our kids, etc. please call Rebecca Villarreal. (posted December 12, 2003)
The Financial Secretary of FPC, Paula Dreyer, will be on vacation from December 24th through January 2nd. Any committees intending to turn in receipts for reimbursements on this year's budget should have them in to Paula by Friday, Dec. 19th. Thank you. (posted December 12, 2003)
The price for Sunday’s flower arrangements has increased from $30 to $35. If you signed up for flowers your payment can be turned in at the church office or mailed to the church at 104 S. 12th Street, McAllen, TX 78501. Attn: Paula Dreyer, Financial Secretary. Flowers are placed in the sanctuary on Sundays as a way of celebrating a special day or in memory/honor of a loved one and a single rose is placed to celebrate the birth of a baby into a family. The sign up schedule for the year 2004 will be available in the next couple of weeks.If you would like to make an entry please do so as soon as the new schedule is up. This is done as a first come first served basis, any additional flowers will be placed in the narthex or by the parlor. If there are two flowers signed up and you would still like to place flowers or if you would like a larger arrangement please contact the chairperson of the Worship Committtee, Anna Bohart. Also, call Anna if you would like to place a single rose in the sanctuary. You may take your flower arrangement after the worship service or make arrangements with Anna to have them distributed to the homebound of our congregation who are unable to attend church services. (posted December 12, 2003)
C is for Children that’s what we’re all about H is for “HIS” love, that’s why we’re here, no doubt R is for the Ripples of love and care over years we hope to see I is for the Intricate way God made each child to be S is for the Smiles that we get to see each day T is for the Trouble we pray never comes our way M is for the Many friends and families we meet A is for All the excited faces we daily greet S is for our Savior whom we serve Together these spell CHRISTMAS the blessed season we observe From Lynn Flowers Presbyterian Preschool Merry Christmas & Happy New Year (posted December 12, 2003)
Light up the fire, play some Nat King Cole Always sentimental and don’t you know It’s gonna be a Christmas to remember Amy Grant Isn’t that what we all strive for, that this Christmas will be one tucked away in our memories remembered with love and fondness.We all have traditions.We enjoy the rituals that are part of our history, but what else do we need in our mind’s picture postcard for this Christmas to be fulfilling. Christmas is about relationships, taking time from all that we do to just be together, to reconnect.I remember one Christmas, I was in college and my family went to an aunt’s house in East Texas.My grandmother had been really sick that year and I hadn’t seen her since the Christmas before.I made her and myself a big mug of hot chocolate and sat with her all afternoon.I was finishing up my teaching degree and she had worked, unbeknownst to me, as a teacher for a couple of years when she was 19 (that would have been in the 1930’s).She had great stories of how it was to be a teacher at that time and how things had changed.We laughed and cried and just enjoyed each other’s company.That’s what Christmas is all about, relationships: with our parents, our children, our friends and with God.I hope this is, for you, a Christmas to remember. by Rebecca Villarreal Director of Christian Education (posted December 12, 2003)
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