As always we had a great time this year with our Power House Christmas events. With all the locations combined, we had a total of 444 kids and parents attend. And we had a total of 25 decisions for Christ. The parties took place at 7 different locations. 6 in the GR area and 1 in Lansing. (We were unable to have 2 of the parties.) Each person who attended received a slice of pizza, a water bottle filled with candy, and a chance to receive Jesus.

Each location had different attractions. At most of the sites we were able to get a money machine. Instead of putting money in the machine. We put paper in there. The paper would blow around and the kids would have to grab as much of it as possible and push it out of a little window. (We should have called it the candy machine) The more paper they grabbed and poked out of the window the more candy and prizes they won. One site had a local rapper come in and rap. A couple of sites that have large teen attendances were able to acquire some Christian rap CDs. These were given to the teens. (We’ve been having an explosion of teens this year.) Other sites had more of a laid back atmosphere where the kids and parents could come in, eat, and have a good time.

At Traditions apartments, the Christmas party was inside of a small apartment. So to get all the kids in, Sheldon and Lisa had to do 2 shifts. Half of the kids went to the first session and the other half to the second session. It was quite interesting.

Thank you volunteers and Reslife for making Power House Christmas 2008 a great success!