Brunch Time!

Happy New Year! Next Sunday, the 6th, we will be having brunch for class! Sign up in the comments for what you would like to bring!

Update on Luke...

Hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday! Some of you expressed concern about Luke’s health so I wanted to give you the update. After a few uncertain days in the special care nursery he was diagnosed with transient tachypnea of the newborn (TTN). It affects 1-2% of babies and is basically a rapid breathing condition caused by fluid that remains in the lungs after birth. He was put on an IV and precautionary antibiotics due to an elevated white blood cell count. Fortunately, he passed all the tests including the heart diagnostics. Also that club foot the nurses told us he had turned out to be positional (that was the jabbing into my belly button for 3 months). We will be referred to a pediatric orthopedic, but it should be correctable.

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. We feel very blessed and excited to have this little boy in our family. Have a happy New Year!!!

Janessa

Prayer request

Hi everyone -
Please keep my dad in your prayers. He fell & broke his left arm today - the break is too high to cast, so the option is a sling or surgery to put a rod in the bone. Those decisions will be made soon. He is home right now in a sling. We are leaving to see my parents on Sat. for 1 week. Hope y'all have a Merry Christmas
Thanks,
Karla (& Keenan)

Welcome, Luke!

Hey Everyone,

We just wanted to let everyone know that the new addition to our family is here. Luke William was born at 11:13 pm on December 19, 2007. At birth he weighed just over 8 lbs, and he was 20.5 inches. Luke seems to be having a little trouble adjusting to life outside the womb, so the nurses are keeping a close eye on him. Other than that, he is doing well and so is Janessa. Also, Hannah is extremely excited to have a little brother.

Attached is an early picture of our new little guy.

Thanks for all your support!
Michael & Janessa

Head Start Christmas Thank You!!!

I just wanted to thank everyone for getting me your stuff for our Head Start families. I took all the gifts by the school this morning and everyone was very appreciative. I even got to meet one of the little boys and he gave me a hug. Thanks again for all of your hard work. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas!!!!

2008 New Officers

A big congratulations to our new officers for the upcoming year and thanks to everyone who served this year and everyone who was willing to serve for the upcoming year. We had a great year and I think this group will keep the momentum going.

2008 Officers
President – Dan
Vice-President – Chad
Treasurer – Jarod
Membership – Ashlea
Missions – Jason Lincoln
Social – Sherrye
Pastoral – Suzanne
Historian – Ginny

We are having class next week just so everyone knows.

Thanks,

Jason

J & C 12/16

Hi there - here are the J & C 12/16

Joys:
Michelle's co-worker is recovering from pneumonia
Dan's sister got a job at Georgia Tech
The Choir/Orchestra did a fantastic job this morning for their concert - including Suzanne & Chad

Concerns:
Eileen co-worker's baby, Gavin, is on life support
Paul's friend wife is having breast cancer surgery this week
Jason Lincoln's friend mom passed away from breast cancer
Ashlea's client CompUSA is closing - friends losing their jobs in Feb.
Erica's co-worker is going thru a rough time

There will be several people traveling these next couple of weeks for the Holiday.

Thanks
Karla

Advent Study

Hello everyone - this Sunday (12/16) and next (12/23) are still open if anyone would like to volunteer to lead the Advent discussions in class. Please e-mail me or post a response if interested and I will coordinate and get the materials to you.

Thanks.

--Dan

December Treasury Update

Hi everyone! I just deposited all of the offerings that I had from the past several weeks. Our current account balance is $1641.50. This weekend I am going to write a check to the church for half of this amount and will be buying the gift cards for the head start families (4 x $50) which will leave us with a balance of $621. Our balance at the start of the year was around $170. We have really done a great job of stepping up our giving this year! Hopefully, right after the holidays we will be able to decide on a mission to support in 2008 and can set some new goals for the class. If anyone has any treasury questions, comments or concerns, please let me know.

Also, Jason asked me to remind everyone to e-mail their votes for class officers to him. If anyone doesn’t want to e-mail them for some reason we will also try to collect votes in class.

Elections

Hope everyone had a good weekend. We were in Houston visiting family. I got a response from all the nominees and we can get elections finished up.

Please email me your response this week as we need to get this to the church before the holidays. I am not sure if I will be in class this week as Ashlea is flying to Orlando on Sunday morning.

President – Dan, Jason Lax,
Vice-President –Sherrye, Karla, , Chad
Treasurer – Jarod, Ashlea
Membership - Ashlea, Erica, Sarah
Missions – J. Lincoln
Social - Sherrye, Lesley
Pastoral - Janessa, Suzanne
Historian – Ginny

Thanks again to all the officers who served this year and for all those who agreed to their nomination.

Best,

Jason

J & C 12/9

Hello there - here are the Joys & Concerns for 12/9

Joys:

Paul has a new car
Karla's sister has a job

Concerns:

Wayne's great-grandma passed away on Sat. -age 104
Michelle's co-worker at Jasper HS has been in a drug-induced coma as MD tries to cure her pneumonia
Paul's co-workers wife is having surgery for breast cancer this week
Erin's co-workers mom lung cancer has returned
Erin & Chris are traveling this week to IL
Janessa's final week of work is this week, hoping that the pregnancy remains comfortable as possible these next couple of weeks

Thanks,
Karla

Christmas Progressive Dinner 2007

Head Start Christmas Update

The deadline for the delivery of gifts has been extended until Tuesday, December 18th. I will need to have all the gifts labeled with the child's name by Sunday, December 16th. Thank you to those couples that have signed up or already given me their gifts. I still need about 5 more couples to sigh up. So if you have not signed up, please sign up for a child. Thank you very much!!!!! I really appreciate your help and I know these families do too.

J & C 12/2

Hello there -
Here are the J & C for 12/2

Joy: Progressive Dinner was really great. Hope everyone had a nice time & enjoy your new ornaments. Thanks so much, Ginny, for organizing !!!

Concerns:
Karla's sister is looking for a job.
Keenan's co-worker is terminally ill
Sherrye's Aunt is dying - prayers for her to accept Jesus into her heart.
Suzanne has her court date this Thurs. & her finals for school are coming up.

Thanks,
Karla