PARK DAYS 2010!!!

Laura Farish has provided the NEW 2010 Park Days list for this summer!! Whoo Hoo, let the fun begin!

(click the sunshine for the .pdf document)

December, a Season to remember....

Relief Society Christmas Party

Come and enjoy visiting with the sisters in our ward Tuesday, December 8th at 6:30 pm in the Anderson Barn. This will be a night to “Come Unto Christ Through Sisterhood.” A lovely Dinner and dessert will be served followed by games and Christmas Carrols. Please bring a “White Elephant” gift (This would be something you don’t spend any money on… it can be funny or frilly, something used, old, or re-gifted…)

Book Club

December’s book club title is “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck. Hosted by Amy Ward at 1:00pm on December 16th.

#1 New York Times bestselling author and renowned radio and television host Glenn Beck delivers an instant holiday classic about boyhood memories, wrenching life lessons, and the true meaning of the gifts we give to one another in love.

Ward Christmas Party

December 11th from 6-9pm. Bring your neighbors, family, and friends to a Christmas in Zarahemla. This year we are focusing on Christ’s birth in the America’s. We will have a delectable dinner, a fantastic program, and fun activities including a photo opportunity in local Zarahemla dress (provided.) Please join us in celebrating Christ’s birth and strengthening our bond as a ward family. See you there!

Handel’s Messiah

Sunday, December 13th at the Kent Stake Center (12817 SE 256th St.) at 7:00pm (Please arrive early to be seated by 6:50pm) This is a wonderful community event where you will experience Handel’s musical masterpiece with professional vocalists and musicians and be able to participate in a traditional sing-a-long rendition of this Christ-centered presentation. This will be a great evening of culture, spirit, and inspiring music centered on the Savior. We would highly recommend that you invite your friends and neighbors to attend with you.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Maple Valley, WA presents:

The Christmas Crèche
a community nativity celebration

We invite everyone to attend our 6th Annual Crèche Exhibit:

A Nativity Celebration with over 400 treasured crèches on display

~ attendance is free~

December 4th - December 6th, 2009

Friday: 5:00-9:00 PM

Saturday: 2:00-9:00 PM

Sunday: 5:00-9:00 PM

Ward Harvest Party

Cedar River Ward is having a Harvest Party.

WHEN: Saturday, October 31st

TIME: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

WHERE: At the church building on Wax Road

WHAT: Dinner at 5 (please bring your favorite fall soup to share. Salad & Muffins provided).

Trunk-or-Treat following dinner (approx. 6 p.m.) in the parking lot.

Before the 16th century, harvest was the term usually used to refer to the Autumn season: in fact the word comes from old English hærfest, which meant Autumn (the German word Herbst has the same origin and still means Autumn).

The word is a compound word (hær + fest) and its first part has Indo-European roots in *kerp meaning to gather, pluck, harvest. Compare it with the Latin verb carpere meaning to cut, divide, pluck (Carpe diem).

So hærfest indicated originally the joyful celebration of finally being possible to gather the mature crops; it extended afterwards its meaning to the all period beginning with the harvest (autumn).

Happy FALL.