We have just celebrated our 8th Holy Hilarity Sunday! We rejoice in the resurrection of Christ with singing, dancing, joke-telling, laughter and general merriment. Below are pictures from this year's happy festival.
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| Gary Bahlmann & Don Thran |
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| Jazmine Rathbun |
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| Gayle Bahlman in her Christmas outfit |
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| Sarah Gruman at the piano |
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| Renee Murphy |
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| Shelley Peterson |
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| Rick Gramlich |
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| Owen & Dorothy Kirk |
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| Bob Grover making an entrance |
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| Pastor Laura greeting Bob |
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| The sanctuary decorated in Easter lilies, happy banners and balloons |
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| Bob Grover causing more merriment |
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| Santa hats in the narthex |
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| Bob Grover in his pew with Grace Ziegelmaier in the backgroun |
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| Gary & Shirley Mulford in the hippy-gear they've had since hippy days |
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| Enthusiastic Pastor Laura as a pink elephant |
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| Kim and Zoey Timmerman dressed as tired moms who just got out of bed (bed-head and all) |
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| The Timmermans with Pastor Laura |
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| Donna Reed & Pastor Laura |
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| Jazmine & her brother Emilio Rathbun with the elephant |
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| Carol Schaefer in her hilarity hat |
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| Samantha Rosas & Brian Creasman with their daughter, Nayelly (the youngest worshiper at Holy Hilarity this year) |
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| The decorations in the sanctuary before worship began |
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| An alien visitor—Barb Scottston |
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| An angel—Melanie Wittman |
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| MelanieWittman & her daughter, Chloe |
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| Pastor telling elephant jokes |
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| Kathy Hay & Paula Rathbun explaining that this year's dance would be "Happy" by Pharrell Williams |
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| Everyone bust into happy dancing–it was mayhem |
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| More happy dancing |
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| The prayers of intercession |
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| The benediction |
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| Pastor announcing the final hymn |
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| Chloe Magnusson and Zoey Timmerman singing the closing song |
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| The children leading the music |
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| Mike Schweitzer after the service |
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| Kim and Zoey Timmerman |
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| Vern Timmerman |
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| Rick Gramlich and Pastor Laura |
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| Rick in his hat/wig |
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| Dorothy Becker in her Easter bonnet |
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| Photographer, Eric Mills (thanks to Eric for providing most of these fun photos) |
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| Nayelly Creasman in her Pooh hat |
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| Kenny 'the clown' Rathbun with his kids, Emilio & Jazmine |
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| The Hippy Mulfords |
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| Barb Scottston |
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| The Rathbun family |
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| Kathy Hay & Paula Rathbun, our dance leaders, in their Happy T-shirts |
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| Pastor Laura with Dorothy Becker |
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| Chloe Magnusson in her mis-matched outfit |
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| Tabita Green & Pastor Laura's selfie |
We filmed a happy dance video, which will be posted at this blog asap.
