merry christmas from the reynolds fam

This is Gene just waiting for guests from the neighborhood to join us in our first Christmas Open House. Sam and I went door to door the weekend prior inviting the neighbors, Gene spent two days preparing food - it was a great excuse to get the house cleaned..now we wait to see if anyone would show up.
The night turned out great. We had almost 30 people here from 4:30 until 7 - some had never met, many just hadn't seen each other in quite a while. It seemed that everyone enjoyed the evening and there was talk of getting together more often. One lady asked as she was leaving if I wanted to be the president of our neighborhood organization. (I think that means I would also be founder of this organization.) Anyway, it was a great evening.

While this week has been on the lonely side personally for the Reynolds fam - missing family and friends,missing my Grandma and Gene's dad - we have had a great time honoring the Advent together. We are waiting for Christmas to be here...waiting for this church to begin to take shape...waiting....waiting...waiting for Jesus.

We also have had a fantastic week of relationship building and networking. We are learning much about this city from the natives. We are having a blast.

Merry Christmas!