Lil Scrapper Mom: Scrapbooking Day at FBCC

I was approached by my pastor last Summer about starting a Scrapbook Ministry at our church. After much pondering and praying, I finally decided to do it. So on February 17th, I had my first scrapbook day at church. I know how much I love scrapbooking, and I usually get a few chuckles when I say that's my hobby (by those who don't scrapbook), but I felt like I could really do something great with it and bring glory to God at the same time.
So Kelli and I took Friday off work, went shopping, bought an album and some supplies, packed up most of our materials in our scrapbook rooms, and loaded up our cars. On Saturday morning, we took everything up to the church, in addition to the pictures I had from various church activities. We set up our materials and some tables, and got started with scrapbooking. The event was all day, 9am-5pm. We had several women show up, stay for a while, and leave. And by the end of the day, we had scrapbooked all of the pictures I'd brought and put them into our new FBCC scrapbook album.

I had my second scrapbook day on March 17th. It wasn't quite as successful though - I only had 1 person show up, but it was the end of Spring Break. So I'm chalking that up to bad timing.

Hopefully the next one will be better. I'm starting off kinda slow, but I have lots of ideas for this ministry. First of all, I just want to give women an opportunity to get together with other women and fellowship. I'd also like to create a scrapbook for the church that can be left out in the lobby for others, such as visitors, to view and get an idea of the various ministries our church has and what kinds of things we're doing. I also think it would be great if we made cards that could be used by members of the church. Sympathy cards, welcome cards, thinking of you cards, words of encouragement, etc.

We're off to a slow start, but that's ok. I'm going to keep praying about it and if I'm supposed to continue doing it, I will. Here are a few pictures from my first event.