Christmas in the Park

The following piccies of my sister and I on Christmas day show the creative art techniques referred to as Rippling, Sketching, Embossing and Whirlpooling. Pretty cool. I like the sketching best. You can see we inherited the genetics from different parents, well that's what some say. I think it's just that she ate all the food in our critical growing years ;)



Today we served at the big Christmas Lunch in the Park event. It was really awesome to see lots of familiar faces this year. It was my sister's first year as a volunteer. We dressed her up in red with some tinsel around her waist and a little Santa hat and she did a great job. It was nice to see her smile again and enjoy herself. One of the Channel 9 camera guys even insisted on filming her, but, like most years, we forgot to watch the news! Who watches the news on Christmas day anyway?

One of the familiar faces was dancing Adam from Riverview. It was funny seeing him again, because I only just saw him on Friday night in Claremont, where Aaron Malone was singing and where he was dancing with Miagi from RVTV and Aaron from Multimedia, oh and me at some stage! He was at bible college with me earlier this year. Riverview is blessed to have such a great guy among its family.

Another was the beautiful Kelly on the rego desk and later as a Table Host. Hey Kel, if you’re reading this, thanks heaps for all your help. You did well. Thanks to your friend Andrea as well.

Then a couple of chicks from my last work place, Dee and Kim, also lent a helping hand... oh and Kim's hubby Mark came too. God bless them all.

Towards the end of our shifts as Stewards, my sister and I helped Santa give out leftover presents to all the kids, many homeless kids. It is so encouraging to see all the gifts that have been donated from local businesses, all sorts of toys, games, bags, bathroom packs, hats, books, etc… I grabbed a big box of hats and starting putting them on all the toddlers as they came up, which was very satisfying. There were some kids from Ethiopia, who really appreciated the hats. Just seeing their big smiles made my day.

Unfortunately, we ran out of gifts for teenage girls, so we were rummaging through the boxes of gifts for younger kids and trying to find things that they might appreciate. It was pretty challenging, though an amusing exercise. Praise God for the generosity of all the people involved in the event. I think it was a huge success yet again. Next year I think I’ll see if I can get a job in the toy tent.