A is for Angels

A Children’s Christmas Program challenge: we need to hang 26 Christmas Alphabet stars on the right-hand (as you are looking at the front of the church) wall of the sanctuary. The wall is brick and things are hard to stick there. We will have 26 different children hanging the stars and we want it NOT to become a program about falling stars. :-)

This is how things get done in my world:

  1. Thursday: I think, “maybe if we hang fish line over the knobs that hold the wreaths and hang 26 lines down from them and hole-punch the stars and tie the stars on…” Several holes in this theory. Keep thinking.
  2. Thursday: I think: “what if we tape string to the wooden “pillars” on the wall and hang the stars from that?” Not so great. Keep thinking.
  3. Thursday: Ask others for input: Tracy Bramwell (Kingdom Quest Director), Pam Jones (Welcome Team Leader), Kathy Figini (Office Manager), Jason Christ (Director of Student Ministries).
  4. Thursday: Jason says, “Be sure and try whatever you come up with early in the week so you know if it works”. Good point.
  5. Saturday: 6th-8th graders make AWESOME stars at practice on Saturday. Very creative work!
  6. Saturday: Tracy says the fishline over the knobs in the wall would be saggy. And the lines would fall together.
  7. Saturday: Tracy also says Kim Taylor has PVC pipe that fits in sand buckets. Could string the fishline between those. I don’t have a good feeling about it. Talk about saggy.
  8. Sunday: Pam Jones says “How about velcro? I think it would work. Hmmmm. Promising.
  9. Monday: Kathy Figini says, what if a couple dads held the rope on each end. Possibility.
  10. Monday: I ask Kathy Figini to order some velcro. She doesn’t think it will work. Has some at home she will bring in so I can try it.
  11. Monday: In the meantime, Kathy Figini researches “things that stick to brick” online and finds Mavalus tape. She orders some.
  12. Tuesday: Kathy Figini forgets her velcro. I think she is secretly sabotaging the velcro idea. She hopes out loud that the Mavalus tape will arrive in time.
  13. Wednesday: Kathy Figini again forgets her velcro. Need I say more?
  14. Wednesday: Anne Miller (who volunteers for me every Wednesday!) agrees to look for velcro so we can try it out. She finds “Velcro for posters” at AC Moore.
  15. Wednesday: SUCCESS!! The picture above shows the letter A (for angels) hanging for two hours and counting. Turns out the program won’t be about falling stars, after all. Woooooo hoooooo!

I don’t know if it takes a village to raise a child, but I DO know it takes a village to get ministry done. And I love my village!