Christmas parties LWML style!

I have be so blessed to serve as your Zone President for the past year, and I want to thank you all for the opportunity. It has been so wonderful, I can't wait to see what the Lord has in store for 2009! It comes with many perks, and one of my favorites is to travel and visit with all of you at your churches. I very much enjoy coming to your society events and meetings and spending time with my fellow Women in Mission!

Last week I attended St. Marks' Ladies' Christmas party. When I walked in everyone was just getting warmed up by singing Christmas hymns together. Then we had a wonderful potluck finger food dinner with hot chocolate and homemade biscotti. Lane, the Society President had some fun games prepared for us including a Christmas Bible Trivia. Thank you Mary Martha Guild, it was wonderful.

The ladies at Grace Lutheran Church in Sandy invited me to their Christmas party this year. I learned that every year the ladies collect goodies to put in gift sacks and deliver to shut-ins who are in the area or belong to the congregation. Society President Cindy was all ready to go with Christmas bags and map quest directions to each home. We broke up into two groups and away we went.

The bags we stuffed full of everything from baked goods to devotional booklets. Some ladies even brought left over (blank) Christmas cards and put those in too, what a great idea!

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that tradition calls for dinner afterwards at Spaghetti Mama's! What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon, thank you ladies of Grace for inviting me. May God continue to bless your mission work.