Year-end
I almost wrote that we didn't go to a new church this week -- but that isn't quite true.
Christmas Eve morning we went to The Bridge, the Evangelical Free Church next door to where we live. We go there most Sundays, and we've written about it a couple of times, so nothing new about that worship service. But on Christmas morning, we worshiped at home with our son, one of our daughters, her husband, and my brother.
Our son read the nativity passage from Luke 2. We sang a carol, "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." We prayed. It was a traditional Christmas worship service for our family, but since this was our first Christmas in our apartment on Ashlan in Fresno, I'm calling it a new church. (Later that day, our other daughter joined us via video chat, and together we shared another Christmas tradition: singing carols in bad Cockney accents like Dickensian orphans).
As the year ends, we're thankful for more opportunities to see God working a variety of creative ways in His church. Going to church in 2017 was a different experience than we had traveling from state to state in 2016, but we appreciated the adventure of exploring one place and discovering that the diversity could still be so great.
One reason this ongoing experience stays fun is that we get to share it with you. We so appreciate hearing from you and knowing that this blog has been an encouragement.
To close the year, we thought it'd be nice to look back at our five most popular posts of the year.
We go to our new home church
We go to church in 2017
We go to a church in transition
We go to Spring Hills Community Church
We go looking for young adults
Thanks for going to church with us in 2017. May God bless you in 2018!
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