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The number of years in a row that I’ve attend the Busch Braggin’ Rights game with Missouri vs Illinois in basketball at St. Louis. We have lower level tickets for tonight’s game.

But this year is special.
This will be the first year that my son, Ethan will be able to participate (not in the arena, but dressed up watching the game at home.)

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In January, a mission team from The Rock church at the University of Missouri will be taking 14 suitcases of donated shoes and school supplies to children in Choluteca, Honduras.

Choluteca is a city of 100,00 people.
Honduras is considered in the top 5 poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere, so there is a tremendous need there. In years past, The Rock has taken shoes there and have literally given away hundreds of pairs to people who can’t afford to buy their own.

All of the supplies have already been donated, but now the shoes and supplies need to get to Honduras.It will cost the team a little over $500 to take all of the suitcases full of shoes and school supplies to the children.

I’m trying to raise $500 for them in just 3 days.
Spread the word.

All it will take for you to be a part is $2 and 30 seconds of your time.

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We had an appointment today with a pediatric cardiologist for what our local doctor thought was a heart murmur. (General term for a heart defect)

Today Ethan was strong.
Thru a couple tests, wires hooked up on him all over and waiting for the doctor which seemed like hours, but was probably 30 minutes.

The doctor found two small defects with Ethan’s heart; both a ventricular septal defect and a bicuspid aortic valve.

Ethan is growing healthy and has gained great weight this past week.
The doctor believes that the VSD will probably heal itself and the bicuspid shouldn’t cause him problems until he’s in old age.

I’m amazed how my son has been able to adjust to the real world.
Living, breathing and eating on his own.
I’m so proud of you son, you are a gift from God!

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This is our design for our sermon series titled Christmas Chaos.
Because of our low budget, I did everything for under $100.

How I do a design
I start in the room. I stare at it.
I envision what it could be.
Then I draw out the design on paper or with Google SketchUp.
Get all of the material and go at it.

Designing on a small budget
Use elements you already have.
Your same lighting you use week to week can go a long way, get creative with how you use it.
The smaller the budget the more room for innovation.

What the design is
Converted our 30′ video wall into two separate screens by hanging a black curtain (borrowed) in the middle of it.
Hung a couple metallic snowflakes ($20) from the truss.
Put a riser (already had) in the center of the stage and put a christmas tree with white lights on it.
Put a couple Chauvet LEDspalsh200 (already had) shining directly up at the snowflakes, and a couple pointing out towards the crowd.
Then I tricked it all out with some snow.
I purchased some quilt batting ($50) (the stuff that goes into a quilt to make it warm), and I tore the edges of it to make it look like layered snow, and placed it on the front of our stage and all over the riser.
Underneath all of the quilt batting I ran some string of white christmas tree lights. ($14).

Time Lapse created on the main development of the design, before the snow was installed.

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I got ideas from Matt Knisely, Oprah and Planning Christmas

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