Christmas Parade

I'll take a short detour from our trip so I can share pictures from our float in the parade.  We had great help this week!

 Our friends Janis and Dennis Pauls did preliminary work, cutting out letters for the signs and laminating pictures of the African children.  They ran from Inman to Buhler to Salina, all to make sure we had what we needed to put the float together.

Hutch friends Butch and Maryln let us use their garage so we wouldn't leave a trail of tissue paper between Buhler and Hutch.  :)  My daughter Anna was the tissue queen . . . not sure why hers stayed better and went on faster than mine.  Suffice it to say she did 1 1/2 sides to my half.

Joan Hutter came over Thursday morning to pitch in, so I had her staple tinsel to the kids' pictures and cut apart flyers to hand out.

Dianne Martin worked for hours and hours with Anna and me.  She's a ton of fun!  :)

Everything is more fun with a friend.  :)

And Anna patiently stayed at it until we were done.  

It was a little bit chilly this morning as we put on finishing touches.  Looks like Anna scored something hot to drink.

Hubby Tracy hard at it, as always.  I love having a dependable husband to share this journey!

Thankfully, the posters on the back end cleared the dip in the driveway, and we headed downtown.  Late Friday night, I made posters about our upcoming concert/dinner and stuck magnetic tape on the back so we could put them on the sides of Nathan's truck.  It worked!

Last minute adjustments . . .

. . . and the Guffey family (minus Avery) joined us to throw candy and hand out flyers about the concert and what Grand Staff Ministries is all about.

Joel and Landry

Joel

Kevin and Cindy

 Yes, everything is more fun with a friend!  Kaylee and Anna

And we were off!  

We saw lots of people we knew, and we trust that many people who had never heard of Grand Staff Ministries now has some idea of who we are and what we do.  Seeds were planted, and we trust the one Who makes them grow.

Our signs read, "On the first day of Christmas, true love came down." and "Make every day Christmas--sponsor a needy child."

Amen.

Thanks to everyone who helped!