Reformation Party

This post is a bit late. We had our annual Reformation party last weekend and had a grand time. We're without a good camera at the moment (Grace's camera was stolen last month), so I'm a little behind on getting pictures posted on the blog.

Anyway, this year's Reformation party was our best yet. We had four other families in attendance for a total of ten adults and fifteen kids. We played games which taught the kids about Martin Luther's life, we worshiped and fellowshiped over a meal together.
In order to prepare for the party, we needed to clean our basement. It was a huge job that stretched out for days. We purged, reorganized and finally had enough room to decorate for the party. Grace did a wonderful job of organizing the evening's order of worship, deciding which games to play and accompanying the hymn singing by playing piano for us.
Elizabeth sewed a little Martin Luther doll which we used for a couple of the games. Matt and the kids spray painted the bed sheets that we used to create the stone walls of the Castle Church and the trees of Thuringian Forest.
Paul collected sticks and stones that we used to create a "fire" in which to burn the Papal Bull and he also was my willing helper the whole week prior to the party (as were Grace and Elizabeth).All that to say this: It was really neat to see the way our whole family worked together to pull off a bigger Reformation party than we'd ever hosted before. What one didn't think of, another one did. God used each of our family member's talents to produce an evening that none of us could have pulled off on our own. We prayed as a family that the party would teach those in attendance more about Jesus and about one man named Martin Luther who sacrificed much to spread the message of the Gospel. We prayed our combined efforts would bring glory to God. We all worked really hard, but God Himself saw to it that it was a wonderful evening and for that we are truly thankful.