Ladies Luncheon....Southwest Christian Church....Atlanta

My family has been members of this church many years. It's a wonderful, warm inviting place, and holds lots of good memories for us. However, it is time to move this church to Newnan...as we all know a church is a body of people, not a building.....but the building has become a wonderful place to go. So...with the fact that it is about to relocate the ladies were doing one final luncheon....The Legacy of Southwest....I wanted to go. The flights looked rough but I made it, Mom and Shea picked me up and we headed to Deb's house. We had a light dinner and played Canasta....Mom and I won, but just barely.....they'll get us next time....it was loads of fun.

We headed home to crash, had to roll early on Saturday morning. We were at the church in plenty of time...Mom and Shea were table hostesses and they had some extra duties. We all had name tags that had their Women's Ministry logo....JOY....Jesus first, then Others, and Yourself last....good thing to always remember...and their moto...Bringing Hearts of Women Together.......very nice.

There were 15 tables all set differently, they were fantastic, each hostess explained her theme and why she chose it.

My sister explains her table.....

 I ended up helping with the dessert table...it was done very uniquely. Different ladies brought in cakes from the 5 different recipe books that this church has produced over the years. It might be their own recipe, it might have been their Mother's or Grandmother's....what a great (and very yummy) idea.

This cake was the recipe of a woman that now lives in Heaven, but her granddaughter made it....what a legacy......even the cake table held to the theme.

Once we were all seated Debbie H. had a welcome speech, then we enjoyed some wonderful music by brothers....Ken and James....they are soooooo good...thanks guys.

Then my sister Debbie lead us in a short game that emphasizes that we are all connected...neat game to prove an important fact. Here's our table showing we're "connected".

Next it was lunch time....first we had a nice veggie tray...then a lovely salad plate. Was very good, dessert was self serve and the chocolate was amazing....I tried several!!! 

Then we had a woman speak who's family help start the church, several generations of them have attended. She helped with cookbooks and a church history book. It was neat to hear all the history. Finally, 4 women were honored for their 60+ years of service.....wow, I hope someday I can say I've served a church 60+ years. This was Rose Harper saying just a few words....what a wonderful woman.

And Gladys Crowe was being helped by her son Ronnie....wonderful lady.

What a delightful day with more good memories, but alas I had to get back home, I had church duties of my own...so, I zoomed back to the airport and back to FL.

Thanks everyone, it was a quick trip, but a really fun one.