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So i share this not because i feel i was deserving of such niceness.. but simply to share what an amazingly blessed person i am and how thankful i am for the wonderful community we have..and perhaps how gullible i can be…

Background (not really important, but interesting to me (man am i gullible).. you can skip to what happened Sunday)

2 months prior – There was an unplanned Steering Committee meeting while i was out of town. I kept asking.. “what was this meeting for?” why couldn’t it wait till i got back?
They said it was about some committee work.. but were very vague…  So i ask pastor Sunny what the meeting was about.. again, very vague mention of committee work… somehow that was annoying to me…

1 month prior- Julie W. asks me if a pastor from a different church could come and preach Jan 10th.
“umm ok, but with retreat and my out of town meeting i would be missing 2 sundays already and i felt bad asking someone else to fill in for me when i am in town and already missing so many sundays.”  So i ask if he could preach a different day.. she is again oddly insistent.  Finally, i convince her to let him preach Jan 31 when i am out of town.

Few weeks ago – run into heesoo at Barnes and nobles and talk about cameras, I comment that Sanghee and I might get one perhaps that or the ebook reader i had been eyeing…

Last week - Julie W. says she is getting an ebook reader for her husband for their wedding anniversary and asks my opinion on the best ones.

Last Monday – P. sunny asks to preach Jan 10th as a precurser to her retreat planning! (i thought “man are you sure you want to preach right before your retreat?”)
she is oddly insistent and said something about the Holy spirit moving in her.. so i said sure! (don’t get in the way of the HS!)  But she says i need to preach for children’s worship service (yay!)

So…

Sunday

As i am leaving the door for church, Sanghee says to dress better with a tie etc. I comply only because it’s picture day at church and i know she wants me to dress nice for family photos.
i get to church and the tables are decorated with table cloths and SB coffee cups with flowers in them and coffee beans all around..
i think to myself “wow they really take this picture day thing seriously!  and why are we wasting good SB coffee cups?
I go to do Children’s worship and they have a birthday song for Sarah and myself (it’s sarah’s actual birthday.. mine is wed)
it was nice to stand with Sarah and share in that moment!

I leave to go back to the adult worship service and…
soojin meets me at the door to say “where’s Sanghee? can you get Sanghee?” in an urgent tone

so i run to get sanghee, but then run back to ask “why?!” after all she was standing in the hallway! sanghee was only 30 ft further down the same hall!
i get stopped by heesoo to talk about cameras for a sec,
then open the doors to service.
Whereupon everyone yells.. “surprise! ”
and i truly was surprised… because it was still middle of service time!!
i see a ginormous sign covering the back of the stage and all these birthday decorations on the tables!!
Pastor Sunny invites me to sit and Sanghee and the kids and all the children come in.
and for the next 30 minutes..
an amazing message by pastor sunny on community..very powerful and eloquent as usual
A wonderful prayer for me and the family by the congregation and laying on of hands by the Steering committee. So blessed.
slideshow of the past several years.. with such nice words.. very moving
Then a cake shaped and printed on like an iphone!  sooo creative and funny.
Then a photo album with photos and comments from sooo many folks in the ministry!

One of my favorite parts of the day was reading all those comments and seeing the photos… soo moving!!
on top of that.. some very generous and nice gifts

i was so stunned, i did not know what to say.. but i do know that i felt so amazingly blessed.
the only reason i did not jump up and down or burst out crying was because all the while this was going on..my little sarah was crying because she was not getting a surprise part too     (breaks my heart to think of it)
but really she had a celebration the day before on  saturday!
so i am trying to console her even as all this is going on … and i tell her that we have a surprise for her after church…
(we did end up doing something special for her=)

That was my sunday..
i feel … overly blessed!!
definitely not deserving of so much love and blessings.. but thankful and humbled…

Thanks to all who helped plan, contributed and celebrated .. it was the truly a moving day!