The Greatest Gift

God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can't take credit for this; it is a gift from God.
  --Ephesians 2:8, NLT

BFA Christmas Banquest 2011

Every Year Black Forest Academy holds its annual Christmas Banquet.  It is a wonderful night where the students share their musical gifts, the school awards some Christmas wishes and this year the students were given some dance lessons.

No, the dance lessons were not the Chicken Dance.  This is the granting of Carl's Christmas wish.

Andrew and Priscilla were the freshmen class king and queen at the Banquet

Andrew and his "brothers" from HBR.

One of Heather on this side of the camera.  She spent the remainder of the night photographing the evening for the kids

Rob here grants the girls' wishes of making the daily announcements.

Rob grants a couple of wishes.  Here he is in pajamas, as he grants a wish of pajama day at BFA.  This one being the playing of the "Friday" song between classes on Friday.

Emmalee gets her Christmas wish as Mr. Greenhoe sings, "It's Not Easy Being Greenhoe!

Elle & Sunshine share a Christmas song with us.

Kandern Decorated for Christmas

This is a view of Main Street in Kandern.

Elementary School Christmas Concert 2011

Here are a few images from the Christmas Concert at the Elementary School.   The students in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades are a mix of local German children and Missionary Kids in the bi-lingual program.  They sang songs both in English and in German.  We also had a visit from Frosty the Snowman who through snow balls into the audience ( fake but filled with candy ! )