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Giving Thanks
With so many services, small groups and Sunday School classes
it is easy for members of CLPC to seldom cross paths. The
Thanksgiving Feast was an awesome opportunity for the
whole body of the Church to enjoy a great meal and celebrate
in fellowship with one another.
The evening began, of course, with the meal itself, which was
catered mostly with home cooked dishes by the attendees,
and it was my pleasure to try as many as I could! If you ask my
son Evan and daughter Abby, they will say the highlight of the
evening was NextGen Director John Hagmann dressing up as a
Thanksgiving turkey and dancing onstage as the dinner entertainment!
Throughout the night, we participated in games,
trivia, and enjoyed each other's company as we began the
holiday season. We concluded the night by decorating stockings
later to be filled with household essentials for Bay Area
Turning Point, an outreach mission that allowed us to engage
in our local neighborhood.
Our family is so excited that NextGen Ministries has decided to
provide more intergenerational activities like this in the upcoming
year. What an amazing feeling it is to step out of our
normal routine and participate in an event like this, which
truly brings the words "church" and "family" together!
— Brian Hrach, CLPC member since 2004 and current Ruling
Elder on Session