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Greetings from sunny CA,
Yesterday we ate a great breakfast at
the Residence Inn in El Segundo where we are staying. A
quick meeting, devotions and off to Freeways 105 and 110.
We have five minivans. We saw hundreds of fellow Petal
Pushers as we arrived at the Rose Palace. Petal Pushers are
volunteers who donate their time and talents to help spread
the love of Jesus through the process of decorating floats
and through the end result of the beautiful Lutheran Hour
float as it will head down Colorado Blvd on Jan 1.
We decorate, not only the Lutheran Hour
float, which most of you know is the ONLY Christian float in
the Rose Parade, but we decorate others. That donated time
is credited to the Lutheran Hour float which helps pay for
the expenses of the Lutheran float. Pretty cool deal..
Someone had a great idea on that!!!! This is the 60th
year of proclaiming Jesus to the world by way of the Float
in the Rose Parade.
Some of our group worked for hours on
scaffolding putting red carnations on the Farmer’s Insurance
float. Look for it in the parade. It is a huge float. The
majority of our group spent our time on the Alhambra, CA
float. We are working with a great crew chief who has been
a crew chief for twelve years. His assistant is his 13 year
old daughter who has been involved with the decorating of
floats for the last 11 years. We cut, glued and attached
thousands of silver leaves. Another group glued thousands
of gingko leaves.( that’s what I think they were) J Many
worked on scaffolding gluing a zillion J yellow button mums
and copper colored mums to the float. It is a fun time. We
worked hard for eight hours 8-3, and had a great time
interacting and visiting with others who we are working
with.
We enjoy seeing the zillion flowers in
the flower tent. Part of our team visited with the Home and
Garden Show TV crew who were gathering information for their
presentation of the floats on Jan 1. We told them that we
always promote HG TV so here it is again …………….the best
coverage is always Home and Garden channel because they show
all the floats. Some of the major channels conveniently
decide that it is a great time to go to commercial when the
only Christian float is heading toward them down Colorado
Blvd. I have been told that RFD TV also does a great
coverage. Look for the Lutheran Hour float…..it is the 38th
entry this year.
It boldly proclaims the word of
God…..two tablets with the 10 commandments, 3 crosses and
the ark of the covenant.
After our 8 hour shift we headed to the
home of the Pastor and his wife who we will be working with
on January 2 on Skid Row. They are totally amazing people
who love Jesus with all they do and say. They cooked all
day and we enjoyed an amazing meal at their home. (More on
that tomorrow) Then we headed to the “famous” Ralph’s
Grocery to get snacks for the week and to make a scene J as
our group all descend on the store in matching Petal Pusher
shirts. Great witnessing opportunity because people
continually ask what we are doing. One guy asked me last
night if we were a bicycle club. Yeah right J
We left the hotel at 7 yesterday AM and
returned at around 9:00 PM. Long but great day.
I need to close for now and get ready
for another great day of serving God. It’s 5:30 AM now and
heading out at 7:00 after breakfast and devotions. Please
pray for our team.
Thank you and God bless your day.
Serve the Lord with GLADNESS !!!
Ellie Menz
PS: Had a nice visit with Pastor
Settgast yesterday afternoon. He sends his greetings to his
friends in Iowa District West. (He is now the interim
Pastor for Hope Memorial in LA) |
