Single Adult's Christmas Party

Tonight we had our single adults Christmas party. It was held at Bro. Morton's house, and we had a BLAST!!

This was for the singles 30 years old and over. We had about 55-60 people there. That's more people than some home missions churches have!! LOL You would think with that many singles, surely some of them would match up, wouldn't you??? (It happens once in a while.)

First we ate. Then we ate again. After that, it was time to eat again. WHEW!! There was a LOT of food. When we finally finished eating, we played a game. We all had a wrapped gift and while Sharon read a Christmas story, every time she said the words "right" or "left", that was the way we passed our gift. For instance, if she said..."when they reached Bethlehem, they went "right" to the inn (we passed it right), but they found there was no room "left" in the inn (we passed it left). It was pretty funny, actually. When the story ended, we kept the gift that was in our hands. Then we played a game where we had to put the words to a song in order, and then sing it.

After we played some games, we presented Bro. Morton with a gift. Sandy and I wanted to give him a "gag" gift, so this is what we came up with. We gave him a real fishing license....this to a man who doesn't even like to fish!! LOL But, we had a motive....I wrote a poem that I read before we presented him with the gift. This is how it went.

"Twas the night before Christmas, and sitting right there,
the preacher was cozy, kicked back in his chair.

He had a red face, and a little round belly,
that shook, when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly.

He was not relaxing, his mind was a spinning,
thinking about saints, revival, soul winning.

Then out on the lawn he heard lots of chatter,
he sprang from the chair to see what was the matter.

Away to the window he flew like a flash,
tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.

He looked out the window, and saw women a plenty.
Oh, NO, he thought......I don't even want ONE, I sure don't want TWENTY!!

But being the kindly old gent that he is,
he opened the door hoping nothing's amiss.

The ladies were holding a gift in their hands.
"To help with soul winning throughout the lands".

God called us to witness and for souls to win,
Jesus even said He'd make you fishers of MEN.

So we are writing this poor little jingle,
In hopes that you'll make sure that those MEN are SINGLE!!!!!

He got a real kick out of that!! Especially when he opened the gift and saw the fishing license!! He threatened to have me read the poem at church tomorrow night, but I know he wouldn't be brave enough!! LOL

We sang Christmas Carols, then cleaned up and went home. It really was a good party and I am very tired, but I wanted to post this before I go to bed. Here is a slide show of some pictures.