Living Water: Christmas has come & gone....

...here at Living Water! We had our toy give-away last week and today was our Christmas food give-away. Because our Thanksgiving crowd was so large, we decided to pre-register families so we'd know what to expect today. We ended up helping 92 families--it was a good day.

Andy Dietz was our guest preacher for the day. He spoke about receiving God's gifts--according to His riches in glory. It was very impactful. About 7 people gave their lives to Christ!

Cyndy Lyons-Hall took a lot of our photos today. This is from the back of the crowd as I (Becky) am giving last-minute instructions.

We had a great system down that Gib (our food supervisor) came up with at Thanksgiving. Unfortunately, Gib had surgery this week and wasn't able to be with us. But George, Cairl and Duane stepped in and had it well organized today. We have the best volunteers in the world! No joke.

We were blessed with lots of volunteers who helped us fill the grocery baskets and take them to the cars of our clients. Duane filled baskets from the back of our truck. We had an assembly line going.

Liz Holt & Melody Torio were making sure turkeys and other refrigerated products made it into each basket.

Dennis, Jess & Donny made sure this sweet family was taken care of.

Andy is visiting with our registrars at the end of the morning. Each friday, these women register our clients and then fill out extensive records at the end of the day.

Today, we had a drawing for 2 completely decorated Christmas trees and 1 fresh tree with all the trimmings! These women won this tree and are dismantling it to take it home.

This was the 2nd tree that was won in the drawing. I think they were excited to get it home! (Side note: We called about 6 different names as winners, but those winners declined so someone who really needed a tree could get it! We serve people with great hearts!)

All the time we're taking care of people with food in the chapel, lots of work is going on behind the scenes that no one ever knows about. Zella is hard at work sorting clothes each friday.
Zella recently had back surgery, so we're very fortunate to have her back in her spot. She's one organized lady!

Christmas may have already come and gone at Living Water, but don't forget Santa is still checking his list for who's naughty and nice!