We'll Be Home For Christmas

(photos from past Foothill Ranch House Church Christmas celebrations)

Halloween is behind us now and the winter holidays approach.  Even though "The Glory of Christmas" will not be presented this year at the Crystal Cathedral, there will no doubt be many other Christmas-themed productions and presentations designed to draw people to the churches in our area.  That's great.   However, those of us from Vineyard at Home have our own ideas about taking the Christmas message and the Christmas spirit to the neighborhood and creating connection, community and worship "home style".

For example, Eric Brown and the teenagers have been working on our homegrown original production of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" -- with a gospel twist!  For weeks now, they have been constructing and painting set pieces, practicing lines and preparing details for our third annual live Christmas production staged entirely in the Benson's garage extravaganza.  Okay, extravaganza may be too strong of a word, but this year's "Grinch" presentation is the young people's most ambitious project yet.

Of course, all this begins with a neighborhood prayer walk and invitation distribution time that we'll take on an upcoming Sunday morning to canvass the neighborhood in Foothill Ranch.  That's when we'll be inviting people to the play as well as to a neighborhood hayride we have planned for early December.  Finally, we will be hosting our regular in-house Christmas Eve candlelight and worship presentation at our host home in Foothill as well.  So it will be a 1-2-3 punch of Christmas outreach, fun, creativity and worship.  Not bad for our small band of Vineyard at Home members.

Our Friday night group (we meet in San Juan Capistrano at the Price home) is also planning a special holiday in-home invitational worship, candlelight communion and Christmas-themed celebration.  This will open the door to more connections to the weekly Bible Study we have been holding there.

So, as the year moves towards its final act, we'll be sharing Jesus in our own wonderfully simple ways.  At VatH, we'll be home for Christmas!  

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