Before I tell you about my wonderful experience Sunday night at a potluck dinner, I have to share this picture with you of Sasha and her "baby". I caught this picture Sunday night as I was entering my bedroom to prepare to get ready to go to church. I think it is the most adorable pose she could have given me.
We had a beautiful potluck dinner at our evening service Sunday evening. Several of us went early to decorate the gymnasium and set up tables and chairs. ( I sorted red,white, and blue paper napkins into three piles of assorted colors to put on the ends of each row of tables and I put out desserts). All the decorations and dishes were done in red,white, and blue and the place looked very patriotic. (Of course, my camera was home in the bedroom where I had taken Sasha's picture!) (The gymnasium is where we hold our worship services and is also used for special functions and basketball games for our Christian school located in the back of the building.) We had NINE tables of hot foods, salads, side dishes, etc. and THREE round tables full of desserts. There were about 100 people there for the dinner and we had a great time of food and fellowship. Following a brief devotional service after dinner, everybody pitched in and helped tear down the gymnasium and reset the chairs for a church service. We didn't have to do dishes as we used plastic throw-away plates and each person took their own casserole dishes and other food containers home with them. Even the three ministers all rolled up their white shirt sleeves and were pushing huge dry mops up and down the gym floor before the chairs were re-set. It was amazing to see how everyone worked together to clean up. I don't remember any of the pastors back in Maine rolling up their sleeves after a meal and helping with clean-up....they were usually long gone. This church and its people are proving to be the most friendly I've ever known...but most people here in Colorado are a very friendly bunch!!
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