“The years of hats” three years of being a mad hatter.

Even though we have only been pastoring for three years we have made some traditions. One of them is that each year we have a New Year’s Party. It is a big deal for us. People come from all over the city and from many different churches to be a part of the party. We pull out all of the stops. We order food, we play games, give away a ton of prizes, we watch funny videos and a whole ton of other things to usher in the new year as a church family. But one of the traditions that we have adopted over the years that stuck is the tradition of the New Year’s hat.
Each year the committee that is in charge of the planning the New Year’s party goes out to the market to find the largest hat they can find to plaster on the head of their pastor (me) each year. It is impressive how large the hats have gotten over the years. The first year was pretty small but 2008 was so large that I had a hard time balancing it on my head. This year was the same but Angie’s hat grew instead of mine. Needless to say New Years is a blast around Christ Nation Church. We are so blessed to pastor the church that we have in Bolivia and are excited about what God has in store for us in 2009.

Here is our New Years hats for 2009. Notice the size of Angie's hat in comparison to last year.

These are our hats that they gave us for 2008. I like this year because it all matched.

These are our hats for 2007. This was the first year we did the party and this was the year my hat was the smallest.