Give This Christmas Away

Cookie Swap and Share Party. Saturday, December 12th from 3-6pm please join us for a Cookie Swap and Share Party. Bring 4 dozen cookies (1-2 kinds or more variety if you prefer). Others will be doing the same. You can find a nice assortment to take home to your family and prepare a small portion (or several small portions) to give to a shut in or a single person in your neighborhood or church.

Operation Christmas Child Update

Well it's Thursday as I write this and we have officially "relayed" 1455 boxes to their destination after us. There are more awaiting tomorrows pick-up. Thank you and thank God! Our goal is 2100 so we are still in need of your boxes! It's not too late to get involved. We are collecting through Saturday, November 21 at 4:00pm. Please remember that we ARE NOT collecting on Monday, November 23. Help us get those last 645 boxes and bless the lives of children all over the world!!

A special thank you to the Lake George Rotary Club who participated for the first time this year. They packed over 100 shoebox gifts! What a fun and busy night! And we thank Dr. Ida and his wife Margaret for catching the vision of Operation Christmas Child and getting the Rotary club involved! May God bless you.

Stories to teach Thanksgiving

Give Thanks to the Lord is a fun, rhyming take on Thanksgiving that will help kids truly understand the meaning of the holiday. In this heartwarming story that references Psalm 92, award-winning children’s author Karma Wilson tells a story about the Thanksgiving holiday that hits just the right tone. Told from the point of view of one young member of an extended family, Give Thanks to the Lord celebrates all the joys of the autumn holiday, from the arrival of distant relatives to a cozy house filled with noisy good cheer to apple cider and the delicious smells of roasting turkey and baking pies. And just when mouths are watering, the family sits down, holds hands, and says a prayer of thanks to God for “food and fun and family, all the wonderful things we see.” Young readers will delight in each tender rhyme as they learn to appreciate their own many blessings in this full-color picture book for kids.

Saying Grace tells the story of one girl and her discovery of the value of mealtime prayer at her family’s first Thanksgiving. Journey back in time with Grace and relive both the hardships and blessings along with her pioneer family. Find special mealtime prayers and Thanksgiving activities inside!

Both of these excellent books are available here at The Lighthouse or on our website www.lighthousebooksource.com

Operation Christmas Child

Collection Week is here! Already we have lots and lots of boxes! WOO HOO! Our goal is 2100 shoebox gifts this year. It won't be possible without you. New groups are getting involved and faithful groups are adding to their numbers. Thank you. For more information on this great project visit http://www.samaritanspurse.org/ or call The Lighthouse at 761-9658

The Great Christmas Bowl

In a novella destined to become a holiday classic, The Great Christmas Bowl will have you laughing one minute and swallowing the lump in your throat the next. Susan May Warren has done it again. This time she’s captured all the mania and magic that is Christmas in this charming tale about Marianne Wallace, a woman in a small Minnesota town who just adores the holidays.Usually. This year is a little different. While Marianne’s caught up in preparing for a family Christmas that has to be perfect in every detail, her son’s football team has a shot at the state championship. So far so good—until the team’s mascot goes missing. And the church’s Christmas Tea needs organizing. Who better than Marianne to step in and save the day? Things start to unravel as Marianne realizes she’s in over her head. Then, one by one, her children tell her they can’t come home for Christmas. As her sparkling white Christmas turns to blue, can Marianne get the magic back?“I hope you enjoy reading [this story] as much as I enjoyed writing it,” Susan says, “and that it brings to you some of the flavor and magic of your childhood . . . and perhaps the delightful memories of Christmases with your family.” Susan invites readers to share a favorite Christmas story or family recipe on her blog at TheGreatChristmasbowl.blogspot.comThe Great Christmas Bowl is the perfect Christmas gift for anyone on your list who loves a funny, heartwarming story—and that includes yourself! By this and other great books at The Lighthouse or www.lighthousebooksource.com (Taken from Tyndale's Fiction First Newsletter)

Experience the Bible as never before

Goodbye to Gideon? That was the question that titled the Newsweek article about Glo, the new interactive New International Bible by Zondervan. In Lisa Miller's article in Newsweek she says, "Two men arrived in my office to show me their new product, a digital Bible called GLO (pronounced "glow"). Unlike other digital Bibles—which look, well, like Bibles—this one is cool with a capital C. Designed for people who prefer to read while they're watching TV and texting and downloading music, GLO is to the Bible what SimCity is to the comic book: an interactive scriptural immersion experience. Go to Exodus 25, for example. There, you can read, in the New International Version translation, the description of the Tabernacle the Hebrews built in the desert, where they sacrificed animals on altars to the Lord and, more importantly, where they stored in an ark the stone tablets upon which God had inscribed the Ten Commandments. Then click on a computer-generated image of the Tabernacle itself and things get really interesting. See the Tabernacle from the height of an airplane—Look! There's Mount Sinai! There are the tents of Aaron and Moses!—and then swoop down into it, cruise around, navigate through walls to the inner sanctum where the Ark of the Covenant rests. Penetrate its golden lid and view tablets themselves, written in proto-Canaanite letters, the way they must have looked (if you believe in these things) before they finally disappeared, mysteriously, forever."

Glo is available here at The Lighthouse and on our website at http://www.lighthousebooksource.com/ You can also see and experiment with Glo on their website, http://www.bibleglo.com/ Come in and see for yourself all that Glo can do! We'll be reviewing more in the days to come; so check back often.

Beauty and True Love Come from the Heart

New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury weaves a heart-warming tale of inner beauty and devotion. The king stages a competition to see who is worthy of his daughter, and challenges the three knights to prove their courage, strength, kindness, and character. The final competition will decide the winner. Who will pass the test and above all prove his faith in God ... and the true meaning of love? A great gift with a great message every mom will want to share with her daughter. Look for The Princess and the Three Knights at The Lighthouse. Beautifully illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard.