Woman's Christmas Tea

Back at the beginning of December, we had a lovely evening Tea. Jinell Arnold coordinated and shared a nice devotion from Isaiah. Here are some pictures. Look for the amazing birthday cake for Jesus.

Don't go to Disneyland right before Christmas. It ticks off the elves.

Robin here.
I posted some of these on Facebook, but wanted to share them here too.

I work with some funny people.

I don't think I've ever been the focus of one of their pranks.

Everything was wrapped.

This is my pencil cup.

No one has taken credit.

Night in Bethlehem :)

                                                         Isn't baby Jesus precious :)

                                          The skits were great!!!!!

                                           And the Roman soldiers were scary.

The kids had fun at the booths. They could make spice satchels, baskets, play games, eat candies and bread, and make necklaces.

                                            Naomi did a great job taking all the guests photos

Erika did a great job organizing everything :) It was such a fun night!

Coming up....

Just to let you know Night in Bethlehem was a great success! So many new faces of people helping, and lots of new people there too! Pictures will be posted on Wed when I get to Shoreline to get them! Little Joshua, who portrayed baby Jesus this year did a spectacular job, that manger looked pretty cozy as he was napping!

Jesus bless you all as we celebrate His becoming Immanuel.

November Update

Since it is nearly December , I thought we better put in an update for the goings on this month! Well we are all 'a twitter' about the Pottengers visit in December! Looking forward to visits. laughter, tears , more laughter, many smiles and lots of fun! Travel safe dear friends.

We are also preparing for a couple of events in December. The Night in Bethlehem event that we started last year with great success., where we turn the church into ancient Bethlehem, and have a marketplace , and a manger complete with a family portraying Mary, Joseph and Baby Jesus. It was well received by all the participants last year and we are looking forward to this year and what the LORD will bring! That is happening Dec 11th.

On the the 1st we will be having a Ladies Christmas tea. I am looking forward to that, to help focus on Jesus, who is supposed to be the whole reason for this Holiday! Wanting to have the JOY of the season and not the chaos of the worldly distractions. So I look forward to Singing worship songs and praying and fellowshipping with like minded ladies!

The SENT team has been helping the London team through their preparation process. That has been a blessing to see how that works and to be a part of it. We have more people at the SENT prayer times and that is a blessing too! It is exciting to see all the LORD is doing and how HE is revealing the path bit by bit, and bringing encouragement and clarity when needed.

SKC started again, and they are well staffed and enthusiastic. I haven't seen as many High School and Jr High kids in the Coffee house this season, I hope that changes, as I really enjoy getting to know them and see what Jesus is doing in their lives!

The weather has turned Fall-ish for now! We even had a bit of rain last night! Yay for rain! It is supposed to be a beautiful Thanksgiving. We are planning our menu and everyone is deciding what they want to make. All my kids have their favorite things to make, the boys like to do the turkey, with a homemade cornbread stuffing, and orange maple glaze, my daughter is the dessert master so she will be making pumpkin cheesecake this year! I get to make the sweet potatoes , some with marshmallows and some savory, and I will probably do some green beans.

I am getting hungry already!

Have a Thanksgiving filled with blessings and fellowship. Thanking the LORD for all of you! God bless you!

QUICK NOTE!

Hi all!

Just wanted to let you know that if you go to the Shoreline website (click the link on this page) you can see some funny video announcements. They are posted weekly. They always give me a giggle, so check them out!

Thanks Robin & Mike you are doing a great job!

Men's retreat from Pete's view point!

Well time flies! Our 4th Annual Men's Camping Retreat was Friday September 25th through Sunday the 27th. Our vision for the retreat was to build up the guys of our fellowship in the Lord and in deep, meaningful, and lasting relationships with other guys. We've kept it simple: time in the Word, in fellowship, and with the Lord. Add in some great food, and the guys had a great time.

We were very much blessed by the Lord with an originally unplanned location. We found out about a camp run by Boy Scouts of America called Camp French behind Lopez about 10 or 15 minutes. The location was great--except for maybe the flies! Our retreat just happened to land on a weekend when the flies were swarming--I would say "think plagues" but they were manageable. We did have all of our sessions indoors though because of them. The Lord brought a wind up Saturday and Sunday which helped a lot.Other than the flies, the site was great. We had a full commercial kitchen, serving room, and dining/fellowship hall to ourselves. In fact, we had the entire camp to ourselves--we're talking probably a couple dozen acres all added up including hot showers and a big, open meadow.

Through the weekend, we went through the book of Ephesians in our main sessions. Mike Markovich, Pete Maskal, David Jansen, and Bruce Terrell taught through the book and the guys were given guided observation and application questions (written by the Bible College) to have some time alone with the Lord going through the third chapter themselves.
Another blessing of the weekend was having a number of older men in the Lord join us. We had been praying for more older guys to join the group because we desired to have their fellowship and to glean from their years of walking with the Lord. We also want to see the Lord bring about discipleship relationships.

Altogether the weekend was great. We pray for lasting fruit--not just weekend highs or introductions and acquiantances, but to be closer as men in our fellowship to the Lord and one another.