Joyska's Journal: getting into the holiday "spirits"











Wednesday, December 20, 2006

getting into the holiday "spirits"

I have a funny story to tell.

Monday, we had our Christmas party that was a HUGE success! We had enough gifts for everyone and all were blessed with way more than we could have done on our own. Thank you to those of you who helped out to make it possible. The Lord truly made it work!

Part of those gifts were giving a little extra cash in an envelope for some of our "regulars" and faithfuls. It wasn't alot, but it was enough to just give the folks some holiday cheer.

One took that literally. We pick up 3 people from a nursing home to come to the "pinics in the park" on Monday and Thursday and to go to the prayer meeting on Tuesday that we hold downtown.

We picked up 2 of the 3 yesterday. Now one of these fine people is a large man. He came caring a large glass of water and was happy to be there. He is a vocal man to begin with and often responds to everything with "all right" and makes us laugh.

Well, yesterday, it wasn't water he was drinking. Yesterday it was straight up Gin. He was fine we he got there, but as he drank his "water" things slowly began to change. His "alright" became "awwww wigggghhht" and soon became "aaaaaaaiiiiiiii" as he got louder and louder and the "water" began to hit his bloodstream. It didn't take long and he was falling asleep, stuttering awake and was completely under the influence of the"holiday spirits"

I mentioned that he is a large man, right? It took a couple of us to get him out to the van to get him back to the nursing home. In the van he told us he drank a whole pint and should probably go to the hospital. In between his "sorrrrrrry maaaaaan" and other drunk babble, we got him home and got the staff to help us get him where he needed to be.

My favorite response to all of it was one of the nurses looked at us and said "You took him to church like that?" We didn't feel the need to tell her we had actually funded the "party" for him. haha.

Afterwards, we were not sorry that we gave him the money. It was how he chose to spend his Christmas gift. He enjoyed it for a bit, and well, I'm sure he isn't as happy today as he was yesterday. Merry Christmas!

I'll share more about the party and post pics very soon. It was an amazing night!
Joyska at 7:31 AM

3 Comments:

Blogger Deanna Momtchilov said...

That's hilarious! You guys have all the fun! :)

11:28 AM  
Blogger Erica said...

Well...um...I don't know what to say...I'm speechless.

That is one great church!

8:17 PM  
Blogger Stephanie said...

oh wow.
I hope he's feeling better.

11:27 AM  

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