Love in Service

The St. Valentines Day "Repas"

"Chef" Fred mixes things up...

What a pleasure it was to serve the couples of the church with the youth club on Feb. 15th for the "Repas de St. Valentine." The excellent, restaurant quality food was planned and prepared by Fred Albertini (with the help of his folks!) 

The day of the dinner the youth started to arrive around 12:30 to help cut veggies, set up tables, decorate the main room and set the tables. 

Setting up the main room was tricky - too many tables.

Despite a few complications with timing, everything was ready by 6pm, when the couples began to arrive. 
 

We tried to give each couple their own little table, but we didn't have enough little tables!

A couple of couples pose with their favors - heart-shaped frames that served to mark their place as well as a place to put their portrait that we took for each couple.

Dressed to the hilt, the married couples were escorted to their tables by our professionally clad youth who were only too happy to serve.

Entertainment during the evening included some ad-lib comedy led by some of our young people, as well as some songs to set the ambiance sung and played by Havalyn.

Overall the couples were very pleased with the evening and many hope that we will do it again next year. We shall see...

Rachel goofs off with the couple's photo session.

While Papa does dishes, and Mom takes pics, baby hangs out with Joanna. Merci Joanna!