A few things I wanted to mention in this letter:

 While results are still coming in, we are now around 400 financial commitment cards, much the same as last year with totals that closely match last year’s.  THANK YOU!!  We want to get used to making these commitments.

Remember not to come to church, if you have the flu or any other contagious disease.

I hope you had a blessed Thanksgiving.  We have so much to give thanks for!  Maybe sometimes we wonder about that.  But consider the lives of the people in Haiti and other poor places in the world.  Or recognize how even in the most terrible of circumstances, there are so many heroic actions, such as among our men and women in the military, or the firefighters who rescued many people from the path of the wildfires, or the policeman who gave his life rushing in to stop the gunman at the bar.  And we saw the same things on 9/11.  Christ’s light shines forth in such actions taken in the face of evil and danger.  Thank You, God!