{"id":2059,"date":"2006-12-24T02:20:15","date_gmt":"2006-12-24T07:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2006\/12\/24\/lauras-class\/"},"modified":"2006-12-24T02:20:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-24T07:20:15","slug":"lauras-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2006\/12\/24\/lauras-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura&#8217;s class"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Every year at Christmastime Laura invites Kris and me to her 1st grade classroom for her international holiday luncheon with her students and parents. Since Laura\u2019s class has 15 ethnic groups represented, each is asked to bring a dish representing their country and it becomes a universal meal. Before it got underway, I snatched a few looks at my blog to make sure everyone was behaving. Here are some pictures: <!--more|inline--><br>\n<a class=\"imagelink decorated-link\" title=\"100_0569.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0569.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_0569.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0569.thumbnail.JPG\"><\/a> <a class=\"imagelink decorated-link\" title=\"100_0570.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0570.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_0570.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0570.thumbnail.JPG\"><\/a><a class=\"imagelink decorated-link\" title=\"100_0572.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0572.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_0572.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0572.thumbnail.JPG\"><\/a><br>\nLater Friday night we (Kris, yours truly, Laura, Mark, Pat, Bob and Kari) attended the Willow Creek Christmas special \u201cImagine.\u201d If you haven\u2019t heard about it, I suggest taking a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.willowcreek.org\/seeds.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">DVD<\/a> \u2014 it was an aesthetic extravaganza of recreating the Christmas story. It was really special and a celebration of Christ\u2019s birth.  Here\u2019s a picture of Laura and Kari, our niece, next to one of the Christmas trees in the lobby.<br>\n<a class=\"imagelink decorated-link\" title=\"100_0574.JPG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0574.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"100_0574.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jesuscreed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/100_0574.thumbnail.JPG\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year at Christmastime Laura invites Kris and me to her 1st grade classroom for her international holiday luncheon with her students and parents. Since Laura\u2019s class has 15 ethnic groups represented, each is asked to bring a dish representing their country and it becomes a universal meal. 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