This past Sunday evening we celebrated Las Posadas with about 130 folks from our local hispanic community. The plan originally was to serve the meal here at the parsonage, but more practical minds prevailed and we hosted the gathering in the fellowship hall over at church. It made things a LOT easier, in terms of serving, seating, and cleanup, but it also gave people a chance to sit and visit and not be cramped into the space they were sitting in. Had SEVERAL folks there we've either never seen before or had only seen briefly in passing at other occassions or in other locations. At the end of the meal, I read the Nativity story from the Gospel of Luke, and led in prayer of thanksgiving for the gift of God's son, our Savior. It was a precious, precious evening.