This week has been the culmination of a very busy month of preparation, and while it was great to see everything come together, I am so glad that we will be getting a break soon!!
Jairo has been extremely busy getting ready for two Christmas programs at church, one with Compassion International and the other with the youth group. He was actually in charge of the Compassion program since he is the ¨tutor of Christian education¨, or in other words, the one who does all of the Christian programming and lesson plans. He planned a drama where all of the adult helpers depicted different parts of the Christmas story, using short excerpts from the Bible. It turned out really well.
The other program was one that we have been planning forever it seems like. We knew we wanted to do something extra special for Christmas, so we decorated the church with all kinds of things, like Christmas lights and fake snow, the drama team prepared a drama that I developed (finally a good use to all this resting I have to do!), the worship team prepared special Christmas songs, and Jairo gave a special message. We did a Christmas card exchange (since the kids don´t really have the resources for a gift exchange) and gave them cookies and hot cocoa. It was really a wonderful night, and everything went perfectly. We had lots and lots of youth at the service, and got to celebrate the real reason for Christmas. The teens seemed to really enjoy the service, and it turned out to be a very special night.
Now that all of the practices and planning meetings are done, I am looking forward to resting and enjoying our first married Christmas together! It will be the only Christmas that we are a family of 2 (or 2 1/2), and I am really looking forward to it. I absolutely love Christmas! Then in January my parents are going to visit, so I am pretty pumped about all the fun things ahead!
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