Family Christmas Concert!

Well, the weather threatened to doom our Family Christmas Concert on Sunday night, but about 100 folks braved the elements and joined us for an awesome celebration! I think everybody there had a great time, and I was really happy with the way everything turned out!

The program included four tunes by our Christmas Choir, an ad hoc Children's Choir performance, and the youth group playing It Came Upon a Midnight Clear with spoons and waterglasses. Dustin Blumenstein, Anne Muehleck and I all sang some solos; Cassie Carver and Anne sang a duet, with Haley Keller and McKenna Rogness adding sign language; Kim George played a beautiful rendition of O Holy Night on the clarinet; and 8-year-old Molly Janssen brought the house down with her Do You Hear What I Hear solo...It was all just great!

The evening was capped off with some Christmas cookies and presentation of some wonderful gift cards to those of us on the New Hope staff. All in all it was great night, and I'm sorry for those who planned to come but couldn't travel in the snow.

Steve Myers recorded the evening, and some of the tracks turned out really nice! I'll post them soon on our web site's Sermons, Etc. page. And Repko sent me dozens of pictures--here are some of my favorites: