Every year for almost the last decade, Wendy, Mark and I have driven to Spiritwood for the Christmas Eve service. It was a fun drive up there but a long one back (if we had hit anything, we wouldn’t have been found until probably Boxing Day) in the middle of the night.
This year we thought long and hard about going to one of the downtown cathedrals to celebrate Christmas but after thinking it through, it felt like we were being ecclessial tourists. Instead Wendy and I are coming to help out at the coffee that New Hope Community Church puts on at the Salvation Army Community Centre. The church is in the building here and while it normally offers up some soup and sandwiches on a Sunday night free for the community, on Christmas Eve they are doing a special candlelight service and coffee house.
Wendy and I are just going to clean and help out in anyway that they need us to but we are looking forward to it. It should be a nice night.
Good for you guys, Jordon. Merry Christmas.