As custom here at Little Union we have a New Years Eve meeting. On the 31 we get together and have a normal night service and have some snacks afterward. We then gather back into the sanctuary and sing the old year out and the new year in. Its a great time of worship and fellowship and what better way to start off the New Year. You can take all that ball drop and fire works and whatever this is ten times better. It was a custom when I was younger for us kids to camp out down at Bro Leroy Carlton's place all night long after the meeting. As we got older we stopped the camping out. So this year a few of us decided to start camping out again and this time we were going to do it down at our church property. We are blessed with over nine acres at our church building with plenty of area to camp out and a large area to to play in. So on the 30th and 31st of December we gathered down at the church with a fire pit and our tents. We cooked right on the fire with supplies that we brought. For the first night we had hamburgers, hot dogs, bratwurst cook with grilled onions and peppers, fried okra and other little stuff but for desert Dad made peach cobbler with his dutch oven that topped everything. Peach cobbler never tastes the same after you have had peach cobbler in a dutch oven in the woods. That morning we got up and we fixed a large breakfast with scrambled eggs, sausage, bacon, biscuits and sausage gravy with coffee and hot chocolate. We then spent the day doing various things outdoors: we went down back behind our property to Hurrah creek which a river that sits about a half mile behind the church., some of the kids got to try out their new BB guns and had target practice, while a few of us just sat around the fire and enjoying the moment with friends in the outdoors.

Then on New Year's Day the rest of the Church joined us. For great fellowship, games and food. We played a game called corn hole toss which will be in the slide show and for me a new card game called hand and foot. Its just a wonderful time we get to spend with church family and friends.