Advent Brunch is always a great way to kick off the holiday season! It is an event that will touch your heart no matter your age or your spiritual walk. It's a time to meet new people and catch up with good friends. Most importantly it is a time to prepare your heart for the Advent Season!
Our beautiful and festive centerpieces:
We thank you for your generosity in purchasing these ornaments on our centerpieces! We raised over $400 to support our National Women Ministries. We are so blessed to be just one group of women across the nation who belong to Women Ministries. Since their inception, women have raised almost 9 million dollars for causes such as helping educate women in the Congo, advocating for women who have been abused, abolishing human trafficking, and much more. Your generous donations will allow our National Women Ministries to continue to address the needs of women and children across the globe.
Many men made this day possible by babysitting and serving our tables! Thank you!!
Several of our beautifully decorated tables along with just the beginning of the amazing food that was served! We thank all those women who played a role in preparing the food, donating quiches, and hosting a table!
Kinsey and Cheryl (Women Ministry Chairs) share about our upcoming events. They were excited to share about Spring Retreat! Stay tuned to the blog for posts about the retreat and see the left side of the blog for more details! They also shared about Women Ministries heart for those who have been abused or are the victim of human trafficking. Not the type of conversation you expect to hear at a Christmas Brunch! Yet, just the type of subject that grabs at our hearts as women and moves us to action.
We were so blessed to hear Glory's testimony about surviving abuse and why this is such a topic that is near and dear to her heart. She is passionate about our upcoming event this May called Advocates for Victims of Abuse (AVA). AVA will be a three day event where a trained advocate will be traveling to our church. Each day will offer a different extent of training in hopes to reach all levels of interest. This event will focus on educating about abuse, raising awareness on becoming an advocate, and extensive training to raise up and train advocates in our church, and providing awareness to young adults about these important topics and how it relates to dating.
Glory's powerful testimony:
As many women generously donated food and hosted tables we were able to keep the cost of this event low. Your ticket cost helped to pay for the event but will also help to fund our AVA event so that people from our church and community will be able to attend that important event for a nominal cost! Thank you!
Christy Jantzen blesses us by her singing and her words about Reflecting God's Glory at Christmas:
We ended our time together by singing Christmas Carols:
Advent Brunch was a big success due to the many people who donated their time by helping with set up/clean up, serving, babysitting, baking a quiche, hosting a table, decorating, preparing food, giving a testimony, and playing the piano. Thank you to all who generously donated their time, gifts, and money to make this event possible. Finally, Cheryl and Kinsey also want to thank the Women Ministries leadership team for all the time and effort they put into the event! We are so thankful for you! We were so blessed by everyone's attendance at the event and hope this was a great way to begin the Advent Season!
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