Tea Party

Sarah joined us for our church's ladies social event, Daughters of the King Tea Party. It was a wonderful afternoon.

Below is review of the tea party courtesy of our coordinator, Tara, plus more pictures. This is also posted on ICF's website.

Over 60 ladies and little girls drank tea, ate pretty food, and enjoyed spending time with one another at the Daughters of the King Tea Party on Saturday, March 24, 2012. The bright spring day matched the mood of the party and the bright smiles on the participants.

Each table had a hostess attending to the guests – filling tea cups or glasses of lemonade and encouraging conversation that allowed the ladies to relate to and encourage the little girls.

Jan and Fiona Brown shared a positive message of what God thinks of each of his children.    Fiona opened up with a funny skit where she gave away two free name changes.  In contrast, she talked seriously about how the orphan children she worked with in Malawi were given tragic names by their birth mother: names such as Disappointment and Wish You Were Dead.  She told about the joy of renaming children with names that had positive, hopeful messages or biblical names.

Jan unpacked balloons from a backpack and grocery bags she had been carrying around.  The balloons had hateful, negative words written on them – words that any of us could have heard said of us at one time in our lives.   One by one, she asked a little girl to read the negative words and then help her to pop the balloon.  Inside the balloon, was a slip of paper.  “Let’s see what God’s word says…” she said and read a wonderful truth from the scripture that reflected God’s thoughts toward each of us.

Jan and Fiona also led us all in a children’s song about being a daughter of the King.  They ended the program by singing a beautiful and moving duet.

After the program, Adrienne offered a craft project: a bookmark that used colored threads as symbols of important people and events in everyone’s life.  The various colored threads were wrapped around a red cord that represented Jesus’ blood.  The bookmark is a reminder that Jesus is the center of all of lives and that we are made stronger through our experiences.   Our lives are a part of his plan.