Bloomfield Christmas Parade

Tonight was the Bloomfield Christmas parade and our church's youth group was involved in putting a float together with the 1st Baptist Church youth group. This was a great opportunity to get the different youth groups together and form the start of a relationship between them. I hope to see our youth groups get together again soon, perhaps on a once a month basis. Actually, it would be great to see a bunch of the youth groups get together and show people that although we all come from different churches and denominations, these are all just teens who need to have companionship, mentoring and fun.

This is Amy's first year in the youth group (now that she's officially at teenager) and she's loving it. It's been great watching her blossom and reach out to new people. Actually, last Monday evening she went out with 3 other teens to the ROC for Campus Life led by our good friend Andrew MacKay of Youth for Christ. The child didn't get home until 10:30pm! Now, mind you I wasn't worried about her, since I knew she was with good kids and I trust them all. But really, 13 years old and she rolls in at 10:30 on a school night? Good thing we homeschool and have some flexibility in the mornings lol. She's also lucky we are cool parents who don't lose our cool easily. We actually are very happy for her and it was beyond her control that they were so late, but that's another story haha.

So, back to the parade. Our youth group was responsible for making a couple of 10' banners for the float and we spent last Sunday afternoon painting the banners and having a great time in fellowship with other teens and parents. There are pics of that day, but I will have to get Pastor's wife Sally to forward me the pics so I can post them.

I am posting some pics here of the parade last night. Now keep in mind, it is a night time parade and the lighting wasn't too good so this is the best that I was able to get.





Here comes the parade!



Our float