Merry Christmas from our family to yours! 2008 has been a year of walking in faith and God's promises. We serve an awesome, awesome God and it is with joy in our hearts we write to you this Christmas season.
Our year started with awesome change and growth with our church, Grace North. We are privileged to serve with an amazing group of pastors in a wonderful community that we love. Grace North continues to grow disciples which is always a very exciting journey.
Personally, we have experienced many highlights! We vacationed with some great friends in March and toured SeaWorld and Legoland in San Diego, CA. We trekked for days and Dominic had a blast. I was 7 months pregnant with James but managed really well - and got plenty of exercise! We welcomed James Scott on May 29th and celebrated Dominic's 2nd birthday on June 8th. We've nicknamed our boys "Our Delight" because that is truly what they are to us. In June, one week after James was born, we welcomed my family from Norway for 7 weeks. Having Lena and her children here was absolutely amazing! Throughout the duration of the summer we also welcomed family from Fresno, CA, Tucson, AZ as well as close family friends from Washington, California, and Norway. Thank you all for coming to be with us!
In June Scott and Joe traveled to Van Nuys, CA to attend their third installment of "The School of Pastoral Nurture" with Pastor Jack Hayford. This has been an exceptionally enriching experience for Scott who has been blessed to attend these special times with Pastor Jack for the past 3 years. July brought another life altaring Grace North Family Camp experience with Pastors Jerry & Kimberly Dirmann. All we can say is "wow" and we are counting down the days until July 7-10, 2009! And on top of that the entire Grace North staff was blessed to be able to attend "The Rock" Conference in Anaheim, CA just days after our own family camp together with Pastors Jerry and Kimberly!
In October we celebrated the marriage of Carrie Ingegneri to Jeremy Foster! All we can say is WOW! Scott was honored to officiate his sister's wedding and it was definitely an incredible celebration!
Our fall was of course wrapped in the preparation and excitement of "Christmas Street". With approx. 9 months of preparation (beginning in February) and 3 1/2 months of rehearsals we were all elated to present six performances of "Christmas Street" to Grace North and our community. Thank you Grace North for your INCREDIBLE support and to all of our friends and family for praying for us, helping us in practical ways and supporting us by attending the show! We are also excited to announce that "Christmas Street" is now international as our good friend Pastor Bec Tobar from Sydney, Australia and her amazing team from Calvary Chapel George's Hall presented two performances this past weekend with approx. 900 in attendance!
Today, only 6 days from Christmas Day, we reflect on the very reason we celebrate Christmas; our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ! Personally, we have been challenged to re-think Christmas with the following concepts: Worship Fully, Spend Less, Give More and Love All. Secondly: Give Presence! Give the gift of your presence and the Presence of God!
Our Family Loves You! Merry Christmas!
Scott, Lydia, Dominic and James Ingegneri
Posts
4 comments:
Hеy therе wοuld yоu mind lettіng mе
κnоw which wеbhost you're using? I'vе loaded your blog in
3 dіffеrent bгowseгs anԁ Ι muѕt sау thіѕ blog lоads a lot quicker then most.
Can you ѕuggest a gooԁ internet hosting pгovіdеr at a hоnеst price?
Thank you, I apprеciatе it!
Herе is my blog: pain relief during pregnancy
I've been surfing online more than 2 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. It is pretty worth enough for me. In my opinion, if all webmasters and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be much more useful than ever before.
Here is my weblog tens machine
Get the following tips to heart and use those to control the pain that you and your family member is within. They will certainly enable you to limit the irritation that you just or they think every day. Maintain while using methods of remedy to have the best from each one of these.Save Lots Of Money By Using These Stock Market Recommendations [url=http://www.ss12w12ws.info]Girf34t544s[/url]
In case your college campus library supplies a workshop on research skills, subscribe to it. Developing your abilities in researching for information is likely to make your life easier as you handle difficult projects in your programs. The info that you simply find is of better quality that what you can locate by only seeking by means of a search engine on the web. [url=http://www.x21w12w21.info]Gitutyyt[/url]
Post a Comment