Calvin's Annual Christmas Party

 This past Saturday, December 13th,   45 Calvin"ites" gathered together to celebrate Christmas a bit early. We've done this Party for many, many years, but it's always fun to prepare for it and watch people enjoying themselves.  

Enjoy the pics   

We start by decorating the fellowship hall.

The end result of the tables.  

All is done and ready for the guests.

I like lots of Candles. 

Coffee, cold punch, and hot apple cider.  

More Candles.  

Our first guests.  Whoot!! : ) 

People arrived between 6 and 6:30 pm. 

Gifts for the gift exchange.  

About to start.  

We started with a get to know you set of questions.  

And then it was time to eat. 

There's always lots to eat.  

After supper we read the Christmas Story and sang some caraols and then we played Christmas Pictionary.  The next set of pictures show the different tables drawing away :) 

Then it was dessert time.  

We ended with our gift exchange once again. 

All present (pun intended) had a great time, and we hope to see them, and others, again next year 

Helping out at the reSource Store

This past Tuesday, our youth in grades 6 - 12, as well as some parents, showed up to assist the reSource store once again.  This thrift store raises funds for various Christian Schools in the Ottawa area.  

This time around we spent about 1/2 our time moving boxes from one area of the store to a new area of the store that was just acquired.   Enjoy the pics : )

Soooooo, we started by taking all the Christmas decorations from this upper area.  We formed, more or less, an assembly line to minimize all the walking  between the two spaces.  

And so the movement of boxes begins down the stairs.  

 

At the bottom of the stairs people would take them and walk them to the other set of stairs.  

Colton is always having fun.  

Hmmmm, I hope he can see where he's going :) 

Hey Holden : ) 

Once at the other set of stairs up the boxes went with another group of people.  

They ended up in this beautiful new space that will, for now, be the Christmas sale centre, along with a reading nook.  It should be a cozy space.  

This took about 40 minutes, and it was rather warm that night, so it was time for a snack break.  

After the break we did our regular helping routine of finding unused hangers in the clothing section.  Maya and her sister Amelia made it into a competition, of course : ) 

We also sorted clothing.  

And cleaned up the receiving area, as there was literally no room to receive new donations.  

Holden seemed to adopt the grade 6 - 8's.   

They are waiting for something to do : ) 

Never a good idea. 

Thanks for supervising Holden  :  ) 

And soon it was 8:30 and we were ready to depart after being filled with sugar via the snacks : ) 

Thanks to all who helped make the move to the new space go much faster.  

I hear that the next time we come there will be Pizza!!!  

YES!! 

Until next time then. : )