Christmas Eve 2025

My commute on Christmas Eve morning was short due to NO TRAFFIC. It was wonderful.

I had ordered the cutest dress from Dillard's. It is red plaid with a ruffle around the neck and it ties with a huge bow in the back. I was the first one into the office that day.

I set up the snacks for the pastors and maintenance staff - I actually moved them to a different location right after I took this photo!!

My co-worker's daughter had on a skirt to match my dress so she let me snap a photo of the two of us.

And then her son came cruising up and said he matched, too, so we grabbed one more shot. They live within walking distance of the church and ride bikes and scooters to church often. It was VERY warm on Christmas Eve so I had on my Birkenstocksk but also had boots for later.

See . . .it was 76 degrees!

I helped serve communion at the 1:00 p.m. service so I got to hear sermon and music again . . .plus take communion again and light another candle!

As soon as that service was over, I donned my parking lot attendant vest and headed outside to direct traffic for the 3:00 p.m. service. We are land-locked and once the parking lot fills us, we direct people to neighborhood areas where they can park on the street.

I got off work at 5:15 and headed home. We had received a really nice gift while I was at work. The bag contained supplies for Christmas morning for two!

Here are a couple of photos from the worship services. Below is our Senior Pastor, Brian Erickson who also happens to be my boss.

This was the 3:00 service (I think) because it isn't quite dark outside (light coming through stained glass windows). We were packed out at all of the services and offered "identical additional" services down the hall where 150 people worshipped at 3:00 and another 150 at 5:00 - in addition to a full sanctuary (which holds about 900). We broke all attendance records this year.

Our church looks so beautiful. We have volunteers who arrange flowers and decorate. It was lovely. You can see that baby Jesus arrived on Christmas Eve.

It was a good day - tiring, but good!