Last year at the downtown Stevens Point Christmas celebration, one of the Peace trees was lit as the focus of the downtown market square. As I recollected, that tree was planted by a 12 inch spruce in 1987 or 1988, one of the first years I arrived as campus pastor at Peace. I had planted perhaps a dozen of the spruce and maybe a 1/2 dozen of some other trees. It gave the Peace lot (four lots in fact) a feeling of welcome.
This year, another of the large trees was cut and moved to the downtown market square to offer a focus for the Christmas celebration one more time.
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| I believe that the tree stood proud. Since we did little else for the tree while it stood an the southern corner of the Peace property, it did believe that it rightly should accept a position of authority. |
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| Don't you think that it stands so very proudly? |
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| You would never guess that this is her birthday (Dec. 17) because she never eats cake. We dug the white zucchini delicious cake out of the freezer. And then we couldn't find any candle to place on the top. We ended up using a wooden match, and hardly before it began to burn, it was already out. |
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| On the day after her birthday, some cookes began to take shape. The peanut butter balls are loved by a couple of the kids. Take a look at the next pictures to see what they became after a bit more love. |
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| They're taking shape. Karol seemed to give them just a "little hat" to make them look like a chestnut. Mine didn't seem to turn out too good - I just put lots of chocolate |
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| They began to look good with a dousing of chocolate and, I was right on. Karol said that Matthew really liked them, so I'll vote to save them for next week when each of the Kids (all 11 will be here) will be learning to play in the snow and work up a chocolate appetite (that will probably enable them to finish up every last one of these tasteables |
I hope they don't cut down all the trees! Such a nice tree, I hope they planted one in it's place.
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