Church Scrapbook
One of my largest and most overwhelming projects this month was to make a scrapbook for our pastor, Dr. Rev. Lanie Price, who is leaving us in a few weeks to go to another church.
Our church has been through a lot in the last few years including a church fire and rebuilding project, so there was a lot to include in the scrapbook.
In order to get the book completed, I had to let go of my OCD side and keep the pages simple – if I agonized over each embellishment on every single page, I never would have finished. Instead of traditional journaling, I included one more scripture verses on each page that reflected the subject.
Still, this book was an enormous amount of work in a small period of time – and my messy house proves where all of my attention has been focused lately!
I will be presenting Lanie with the book tonight – and will also be making a speech to the 200+ people who will be attending the Celebration Service – yikes! But I think I have a good little speech and I’m happy with the book turned out – I’ll just be relieved when the speech is over and the book is out of my hands.
I thought I’d include photos of the pages of the book here on my blog for members of the church to view (since she’ll be taking the book with her). There were also a few additional pages not included here that contained letters and cards given by members of the congregation.
Just as a point of reference, I started the book at our last Scrapbooking Ministry meeting on May 31st and completed the book yesterday. Can you see why I haven’t had time to post in a while? 🙂
I did make it a bit easier on myself by purchasing coordinating products from the K&Co K-Ology “Hannah” collection. I bought one of the “Scrap Pad to Go” paper pads and actually used the whole thing and had to buy another.
I think the result was well worth it – I hope that this book will help Lanie to remember her years at PUMC.
Kathy, You did such a wonderful job! What a lovely gift to give to someone that I can tell you will miss dearly.
Hi Kathy, your album looks great, I love it!
If you can please email me back, I’d like to get more information on how to start a scrapbook ministry. Thanks!