The Wilby Fam

Wishing you all a very blessed CHRISTMAS and God’s very best for 2014

WOW the end of the year has arrived!!!

MINISTRY…

We as a church have been working and planning a Nativity Festival that we called “This is Christmas” that we hosted this month on our church property. The church building was set up with 5 “booths” – the stable, ministry life of Jesus, the cross, the tomb and modern day Christmas. Just outside the church we had a shepherd, angle and prophets booth. Each of our bible study groups worked out all the décor for each booth. The sewing team of ladies have been sewing costumes since June of this year for every cast member and they all looked fantastic. The young families set up activities in 7 stalls for the children to enjoy with loads of prizes to be won. The coffee shop on our campus organized all the food to be on sale for each evening. The idea was for groups of 20-30 people visiting the festival were to walk through each booth lead and narrated by our very own prophets. Mark was a prophet and had the joy of leading 7 groups through on each given evening. Tan oversaw the children’s activities and all the costume sewing. This proved to be a very successful event where we were able to share the whole gospel story with those of our community. We praise the Lord too for the wonderful involvement of the local church body with a wide age group involved in every part of it. (here's the newspaper clipping from our local newspaper)

The Young families ended the year with “a MINUTE to WIN IT” games evening and delicious 3 course dinner. We celebrated the Christmas seasons with a gift exchange where everyone wanted the Christmas matching His and Her’s hats JJ It was a very happy evening.

We also had a wonderful evening of carol singing where the young families lead the evening with special readings of all the Christmas Nativity story characters – the children so enjoyed playing their parts too.

FAMILY TIME.. SPECIAL MEMORIES

Fun memories made at home with great picture moments....

Craft time - Tan made her very own nativity scene and J-O-Y cushions

To celebrate the end of the school year we treated the boys to a visit to Ushaka WetNWild! loads of water, sun, sliding and tubing...

Visit with the seals, watch the dolphin show and wave at the turtles...

The Wilby family met a little before Christmas to celebrate and enjoy a meal together. It was loud, fun and very action packed with 7 grand children all under the age of 7 JJJ

The Eayrs extended family met in Gonubie to enjoy Christmas celebrations as well as sand water and loads of sunshine. The boyz loved the pool fun and were in the water all the time. We spent several mornings at the beach enjoying the lagoon on paddle ski, boogie boards and tubes. After a week we moved up the coast to Kei Mouth to enjoy more fun beach time. Troyden so enjoyed learning how to paddle ski J.