This idea was born out of hearts that desired to serve a family within our Church Body as a Christmas gift to The Lord. Through the leading of the Holy Spirit, the Borders Small Group began to formulate a plan for how they could serve a weary family in need of some extra love in our Body ...
The Roberts family of 8 (Bob, Caroline, Elena, Ian, Evan, Elijah, Jonathan, & Joshua) became the unanimous choice and the group set out to make arrangements for how to accomplish the task at hand.
First, the group wanted to send Bob and Caroline off for a weekend get-away. This was a two-fold purpose; 1) to give this weary mom and dad a relaxing time together alone with NO children, and 2) to give the group a chance to tear up their house and then put it back together again without them seeing the process; a mini-home makeover per say ..... So a card was created letting Bob and Caroline know about their weekend get-away (destination unknown to them!) Once they had chosen a date, arrangements were made to finalize their destination, and then it was time to make arrangements for the children!
The plan was for the children to stay Friday night at the house and be helpful in the cleaning and organizing process (whose bright idea was that? ~ oh, ummm, nevermind ... I think it was mine) ... The Borders and the Newvines stayed with the children Friday night. Then Saturday morning, arrangements were made for each child to go to a special "fun" destination for the day as well as to spend the night Saturday night with someone in the Church Body. All the children would then be ready for Bob and Caroline to pick up Sunday morning immediately after church; that was the initial plan anyway ...
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