The Christmas Cafe "The Glory of Heaven" took place on Wednesday Dec 11th in London Ontario. The evening was festive and full of music as well as an inspirational dramatized Christmas story that I shared as well. The evening was Hosted by Marion, the host of the afternoon radio show on Faith FM London, she kept things on the ball and in time. The evening opened up with some fun with Judy Carscadden who sang the audience through the 12 days of Christmas, adding silly and humorous effects to each verse. The audience thoroughly enjoyed it.
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| Opening with some festive music. |
The music that I did was a mix of favourite Christmas carols done with new fresh arrangements, and included some favourite hymns. Ken Quarrie joined me, playing his guitar and Mat Monoogian on the Cajon (Percussion instrument), for a cafe style segment of original Christmas music and a story.
The evening had 16 volunteers and nearly 30 sponsors between sponsors, door prizes and raffle items and the proceeds raised funds for the families in crisis and crisis pregnancy project through the Benevolent Fund with Second Chance Ministries. The admission was only $5.00 for such an eventful night, lavishly decorated in Christmas style, music, a full array of refreshments and music and festive fun.
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| Marion from Faith FM in the red sweater & Laurie helping her with the door prizes on stage |
The only disappointing thing was that our video camera quit and we didn't get the whole thing. We're also limited on the number of pictures available. We did get a segment from the evening and that will be available the next edition of the blog. It was definitely a vision and an evening that I could not have accomplished on my own and I am so thankful to God for each one who volunteered, sponsored the event and for those who attended as well.
What you see hear is less than half of the room! It was a packed out house with just room at one table and a few seats on the side, when the crowd had settled in to start the show.
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| Marion from Faith FM with Laurie (middle) and Judy Carscadden at the Radio Station doing an interview the Monday before Dec 11th. |
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