How exciting to gather as a church family and guests to honor and celebrate Jesus! That is exactly what we did at Nueva Vida this morning. We sang, we prayed, we read scripture all to worship Jesus. A testimony pointed out that we had a vision for a new building this year of 2009. Now our dream is a reality! And, the next step is a dream, a vision to grow deeper in our individual and cooperate walk with our King. The children sang Christmas songs honoring Jesus and also read scripture passages. After the message and our closing songs and prayer, we gave candy bags and stuffed animals to the children and 2010 scripture calendars to each family. Oh, I can't forget that we all had to sing "Feliz Navidad", wishing each other a Merry Christmas. Then came our dinner and lots of fellowship around the good food.I am so thankful to all of those who worked so hard to decorate the church, prepare the program and the food and make everything go so smoothly. We had another first today also---we now have a drummer as one of our musicians. Thank you, Bro. Ricky, for joining us in making a joyful noise to the Lord. But I have saved the best news for last. We had record attendance today....73 people filled our sanctuary! I cannot begin to explain how exciting this is for me considering that 16 years ago, the church was advised to close since it did not have a reasonable possibility for growth. But, with the help of the Lord and lots of work, Nueva Vida is growing. Praise the Lord for His Goodness! And, Merry Christmas to everyone!
