Christmas at Railroad Park

Wouldn't you know that the coldest night of the year, December 6th, was also the night we held our OUTDOOR Christmas singing? That's right, about 97 people braved the 29 degree temperatures at Railroad Park in Ruston to get an early start on celebrating the Christmas season. We celebrated by sucking down gallons of hot chocolate and coffee, eating cookies, shamelessly accepting door prizes, and enjoying singing by both Ricky Houck and Hodge United Pentecostal Church.

I do apologize in advance for the very pedestrian quality of the pictures. To be honest with you, it was so cold that most of us were focused way more on self presevation than taking pictures to post on some guy's blog. Nevertheless, we did manage to snap a few pictures.

Each coffee cup came with a custom "LifePoint Church of Ruston" sleeve

Thanks for being our coffee cup model, Kensie

I'm up there mumbling my way through something, wishing that I was standing under one of those heaters behind me.

We didn't have a problem moving the coffee and hot chocolate as is evidenced by this very anxious recepient

I don't think they were actually worshipping the heater...but...well, let's just say it was pretty cold

Crazy people under the coffee tent

Anytime Alan works we like to capture images of it

A very lame picture of the audience

A very lame picture of the stage...also, that's Ricky Houck singing beneath the heater

Hodge UPC Choir...they were troopers lemme tell ya'!

A view of the audience from the stage

Any picture of Ashlyn is a good one

Well, there you have it ladies and gentlemen, our last big event of 2008! Many thanks to all of the hard workers at LifePoint Church that made this possible. Also a big thank you goes out to Mike Houck and the Hodge UPC under the leadership of the Stroud's for providing stellar entertainment. Finally, thank you to all of the local businesses that donated door prizes for the event. They are as follows:

Karen's Hallmark

L.A. Design Company

The Corner Drug Store

Ruston Restaurant and Catering Company

Merle Norman

The Children's Shoppe

Hair Studios of Ruston

Bath Junkie

HR and Associates

The Frothy Monkey

Ruston Florist

All That Jazz

Wing Stop

Sundown Tavern

El Jarrito

Ponchatoula's

Piney Hills Music Superstore

First National Bank

Monjouni's

God Bless,

Jathan Maricelli

Wild West Harvest Fest 2008

This past Saturday LifePoint Church hosted a huge fall party which we named "Wild West Harvest Fest." A great time was had by all of 119 people! We had lots of games for the kids, plenty of good food, and a rousing hour and a half long entertainment session by the "Back 40 Band" which played all of our favorite bluegrass tunes. Thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this event possible . Thanks to John and Sonya Chandler for hosting the event at their place. Thanks to the Back 40 Band for the timely music. Finally, thanks to all of you that showed up to party with LifePoint church. God Bless and enjoy the pictures and the video.