HBC Ladies' Banquet: "O Taste and See"

Each year our ladies' ministries start up our monthly meetings with a brunch in September and goes through May, ending in a beautiful banquet. I try to come up with a theme for the year so that there is continuity (Our theme for the year was "God's Amazing Grace."). Each month at each meeting, we've been hearing different ladies share how God's grace has been amazing in their lives (whether through salvation or trials or both). It's been a tremendous blessing and something we don't often hear, believe it or not.

For our banquet this year, we used Psalm 34:8 as a springboard, "O taste and see that the Lord is good." I am so thankful for this year's theme because I think each one of us was able to rejoice in God's goodness to us. So, to finish out the year, we went with the theme "O Taste and See." We wanted ladies to know and hear of God's goodness.

The banquet takes so much time to plan and execute, but it is a lot of fun! If you've wondered why the blog has been so silent and sporadic lately, this is why. It's not stressful per se, just time consuming. There hasn't been a lot of free time floating around over here. It's been fun to be in on the planning for each year (2008, 2009 and 2010). I get a lot of help from my ladies so it makes it all the more enjoyable.

There was delicious food (made by one of our deacons, and served by some of the men in our church), beautiful decorations, plenty of chocolate (we HAD to work that in to play off of our turquoise and brown color scheme, plus our theme had the word '"Taste" in it), a fun questionnaire about chocolate, lots of ladies, and a wonderful testimony from our guest speaker Karen Chesebrough from Wolfeboro Bible Church. We had a wonderful, wonderful time and I left thoroughly pleased (and exhausted) with how things went. So thankful for our church ladies. Truly God is so good to me.

The party favor each lady/girl was able to take home. Shaylen was looking forward to this!

The vinyl lettering Taigen and I put up on the wall in the fellowship hall.

These flower arrangements were made by one of the ladies in the church.

Each table was beautifully set. It was elegant.

Little jars filled with turquoise and brown M&M's for our visitors.