Thanksgiving outreach

We have been attending a small church plant that meets at the school. On a normal Sunday, we have about 30-40 people, a mixture of Americans, Spaniards and a few Koreans. The service is usually in Spanish, but sometimes they do translate. Anyway - for the last several years the missionaries have organized an outreach, "American Thanksgiving," program where everyone is encouraged to invite their Spanish neighbors and friends and we provide an American Thanksgiving meal with some special music and a time of open-sharing of what we are thankful for. We were privileged to attend. There were around 100 people total.

The set-up.

Renaldo, a pastor/missionary here who is part of the church plant, gave a brief welcome and introduction speech on the history of Thanksgiving in the U.S. and some of the customs.

First course: Pumpkin Soup

Second Course: Traditional American Thanksgiving

Then as a bonus: Sushi and Korean noodles. David ate it. I could not.

Our servers were students from ECA.

Our good friend Susan played and sang a song of Thanksgiving. She is the piano teacher at school and is at our house on a regular basis. We have adopted her. :)


Next, Scot and Carol Musser, the school's headmaster and wife, played the dulcimer and guitar.

One of the MK's played a fiddle.

Then, we were given the opportunity to stand up and share something we were thankful to God for. The above picture is Paco Gonzalez, a Spaniard who happens to be my Spanish profesor. Below is Phil Jolley, a British missionary whose children attend ECA.

And more testimony to God's faithfulness.