12/18/2019
Jordan McCaslin, pastor at Red Rocks Church-Arvada campus, 2003 FCHS alumni and son of FCHS Bible teacher, Charissa McCaslin: ”I can still remember my favorite Christmas from about 25 years ago like it was yesterday...
Me and my two brothers were 11, 10, and 8 and had been bitten by the snowboarding bug, bad. It was literally all we talked about and all we wanted for Christmas, but the cost was going to be tough. Having a dad as a pastor and a mom as a Christian schoolteacher, the odds seemed stacked against us. And, to top it off, my parents did the put-all-the-presents-but-the-snowboards-under-the-tree-and-hide-the-snowboards-somewhere-else trick, so Christmas morning felt like a jumble of emotions... Pumped for some gifts, but also super sad about the snowboards.
And then, when it seemed like it was all over, my dad had us run down to the basement for something and we found the stash of snowboards. And we absolutely lost our minds. I think we may have even shed some tears... Hands-down one of the best mornings of my young life! =)”