Community Centre Christmas Event Tonight!

Last night was the dress rehearsal for the closing-of-classes Christmas program at the community centre.  And tonight is the big night!

We’re hoping to see many of the people who come regularly to the classes related to the community centre – guitar, English, baking, dance, basketball, tutoring, etc.  And, of course, we hope to see their family and friends!  And then of course there are people from the church, and quite a few we’ve met other places.  For example, we talked to a few people when we were handing out flyers with the First Free Team.

So last night I watched as the drama was practised.  This was the English class.  They will be performing in English, while the audience reads along in Spanish.

Then I helped with a bit of music with the English class – tonight it will be a medley of Mary’s Boy Child and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, and then an a capella version of We Wish You A Merry Christmas.  We worked hard on tricky words like earth, born, righteousness, and, of course, Hark!

The program is scheduled to start tonight at 6:00pm.  It will be outdoors, and considering that the weather report this morning said it was 5 degrees below freezing, it could be interesting doing things like playing guitar!

Tonight will also be a chance to promote all the community centre activities for the new year.  We hope to get off to a great start!

We’re praying for a good turnout and a fun time, and of course a clear message of the Gospel which will be in the drama and songs.  There are lots of other things going on this time of year, particularly with the holiday for the Virgin of Guadalupe on Sunday (in our claustro there will be a mass to the Virgin of Guadalupe tonight, for example).  So please pray that people would come out and hear about the coming of the Messiah.