Thursday, January 14, 2010

Be Still and Know


January is always a hard month for me to come up with a new board idea! I think it's coming down from the "holiday high" of so many decorations or something! Anyway, last week I found this poster on a shelf in the church office. I got it last summer as a buy two get one free deal at our local education store. I had forgotten all about it, but it gave me an idea to do a simple yet thought provoking board. Sunday afternoon while at nursing home service I noticed their sparkly plastic snowflakes hanging from the ceiling and thought they would make a pretty addition to a board. The lady told me they'd gotten them at the dollar store so I planned to look there. However, the next day while I was at our local cake decorating store looking for the right color of blue tablecloth, I just happened to run into the same snowflakes. They were on a 50% off table which made them a great deal! I even found a white ribbon with silver snowflakes being sold by the yard that I could use as the border. With one stop I had all I needed to make my board! By the way, does anyone know how to take wrinkles out of the plastic tablecloths?! One reason I don't use them much is because I don't like the wrinkle look...but in this case I needed to save money. I used straight pins to hold the snowflakes up since a staple or glue wouldn't do the job in this case. So, that's my board for January...ok, it will probably stay up till March! : )

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Untold Millions Are Still Untold


In preparation for our church's mission conference at the end of this month, we put up our missions board last weekend. This one was pretty simple, too, since we just bought the pictures to put on the board. The title is also the title of a chorus I remember singing in Sunday school as a child and one that we have taught our Sunday school kids to sing.