First Church Event of the Year

Each New Year's Day, CERC gets together for a church retreat--a few hours at church where the church theme for the year is introduced and there is an exhortation, games, and lunch. To give credit where credit is due, I was not able to make it to this year's retreat, so all my information and photos come from Daniel Tang!

Exhortation and introduction of the church theme

After the presentation, everyone headed to the lunch room for group games.  The first thing everyone had to do was write a thanksgiving or prayer request, and then share those with the others in their group.

When this was finished, there was a competition to see which group could turn their papers, and extra papers, into the tallest tower using no adhesives.

Given and Eric starting the project

Planning

Building

Almost finished!

Here are some pictures of the final projects, which I include because they are such good pictures of so many of the people from church.

As our church theme this year reminds us, may the gospel of the kingdom continue to be preached in all the nations of the world in this year too, as we wait for our Lord's return; and we pray that the fellowship enjoyed at this year's church retreat will continue in CERC throughout the coming year as well.