Big Bubba - The Holidays Threads Merged

[Emily Ruth]

The church I used to attend (and it is huge) has been doing this since my kids were little (about 20 years now) and it is a wonderful way to give an alternative to Christian parents.

[Beeferoni]

We had a trick-or-treater at our house last night...she was about 10 years old. She said she was going as a Muslim, and was dressed scarf to toe in a robe and headscarf.

[ByHisGrace]

That's a first! :twitch

[Beeferoni]

That's a first! :twitch
That was kind of my reaction.

Of course, our two dogs were dressed up...one was a wizard, the other a clown.

[tygerkittn]

We had a trick-or-treater at our house last night...she was about 10 years old. She said she was going as a Muslim, and was dressed scarf to toe in a robe and headscarf.

Well, that's scarier than a ghost. :heh

[ByHisGrace]

I wonder if she went to a muslim house what they would have thought? :thinking

[The Learner]

Last night, we took our kids to a local church's Harvest Festival. To a child, they said "This is a lot more fun than trick or treating." It's was a big, big hit. A typical statement was "With trick or treating, all you do is walk from house to house and get candy. This place has slides and games AND candy."

More churches need to do this.


A local church did something very similiar here last night. Everyone parked their cars in the parking lot and handed out candy from their trunks (they called it Trunk or Treat). They also had a space walk and slide and all for the kids. That is where I tood my kids yesterday, they had a good time.

[frodo82801]

My wife and I sat down and talked about it. I loved Halloween as a kid (and as a single adult), so the memories are thick. Her argument is that the pagans are getting more and more active and claim Halloween as their major holiday. And it's dark to begin with. She convinced me that as Christians, we shouldn't be participating in something that's not of God.

If we didn't have kids, it would be easy to ignore it and just have fun handing out candy, but from this perspective, if I was still single, I'd go volunteer at a church.

A multimillionaire lottery winner wants to start a Hogwarts style witch university. It's getting pretty pathetic. One of my cousin's kids came home from high school one day pretty upset. The teacher had the kids go around the room talking about themselves to allow them to get to know each other better. One of the girls had introduced herself and said she was a witch. What upset my cousin's kid wasn't as much the witch intro as the way everyone else reacted. They were absolutely fine, including the teacher, with having a witch in the class. Tolerance doesn't mean what it used to.

Watching one of my kids try and try and try and finally make a basket at the basketball toss last night is one of the best memories of my life.

[MochaMel]

We also had our un-halloween fun! Watched the Carman concert on tv -- the kids' LOVED it! And then the kids' watched a fun movie while hubby and i went ot lay in bed and rest our tummies. So much praising Jesus; it was a really good concert i would love to see Carman live -- we also went to a great dinner and had lots of candy -- enough to make us all have tummyaches..

I bought my yearly tracts but we had no trick or treaters.. Don't know if our street is just deserted this night or what.. but it was nice not having ot get up every couple of minutes.. Glad to hear others had a great night in spite of the day.. :thumb

[SummerSailing81]

My church also has a party for the kids. Thankfully, where we live kids don't trick or treat, they all go to school parties instead.