We were recently married at our church, New Hope Hilo on Valentine's Day. It was a small service, a few friends, couple of family members and Pastor Aaron performed the service. We did notice that there was one girl who was taking pictures and we thought that they might be showing them to the congregation at a future service but we were way off base.
The Pastor's wife, Carlen made a wedding scrapbook that words just cannot describe. The detail of the handmade items, the imagination, the love was overwhelming for us.
At Sunday's service, Pastor Aaron was speaking about how at our church we have breakfast after all 3 services and he and his wife were eating. When they finished someone came up and cleared their table for them throwing away the rubbish. He was touched by the act and the love this person expressed. After service, we shared how touched we are by Carlen's love and how blessed we are to have them in our life. We wanted to express our appreciation so we first thought we would get a pass for the two of them to go to the movies, or maybe a gift certificate for dinner but we had another idea.
They have 2 young kids and it's expensive to buy food, especially here in Hawaii so we got them a $50 gift certificate to have a good family dinner with. We'll give it to them tonight at our Discipleship class and we can't wait to see their smiles and again tell them how blessed we are to have them in our life.
