Journey Church, a Christian Missionary Alliance church in North Conway, NH is hosting Conway Chamber of Commerce's festival of trees this weekend. Businesses from all through the Mt. Washington Valley donate decorated Christmas trees that are on display at the church this weekend, and people can buy them through the means of a silent auction. For the second year in a row, we were brought in to provide entertainment for the event.

Journey is an ideal setting for the festival, as they have a nice, new spacious facility. The trees throughout the lobby certainly created a Christmas mood. At 1:00 we were on in the sanctuary for a 50 minute show.

Recently, the Lord has put it on my heart and mind to rework some old routines that don't get a lot of exposure lately. So, in addition to regular routines like the card prediction, three ball juggling routine and animal productions, I included "Christmas at Denny's" a contact juggling and illusion routine to Randy Stonehill's song by the same title, as well as a cut and restored rope and an audience volunteer using a married couple to what appears to be the husbands amazing ability to read his wife's mind. All these went well and I am encouraged to continue to dig old routines out of the cupboard and start using them again.

We were especially blessed that Josh and Samantha Davis, two of our closest friends who attend Journey, came out for the show. And we certainly were put into the Christmas mood because of the beautiful venue.