A Christmas Eve of worship

Sunday was a busy day of serving our Lord. We were up at 7 and off to Trail’s End to lead worship at 8:30. There were 37 there, two new couples. We were blessed to serve Holy Communion during the service. Only one person didn’t take it. That was the third person put off by the real presence. The other two were close friends last year and we haven’t seen them since. I am blessed to serve the Body and Blood of our Lord. I served the bread and Evelyn served the wine. We had our short Bible study afterward and then came home to wait for John to take us to Immanuel to practice with the small choir for tonight’s Christmas Eve service. We were home by 12:30, had lunch and watched some of the Saints game. At 3 I went to rehearse with the Southern Comfort choir for the Vespers service at 4. The hall was fairly full, and the choir sounded very well. I really enjoy singing with a larger choir and did well considering I had only rehearsed twice before today. There was a finger food party afterward, but we couldn’t stay because we had to go to Immanuel for the Christmas Eve service at 5:30. Evelyn and I were two of three laypeople who read scripture. The service consisted of mostly singing by the congregation and two by the choir. We came home for popcorn and watched a movie, Mr. 3000 that I had recorded. I also inserted a disk into our DVD player but couldn’t get it out. We have had several electronic disasters and will not be able to get them fixed until at least Tuesday. I stayed up very late, preparing some future orders of service for the worship services and watching Poirot, the Agatha Christy detective.