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Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving becomes more precious to me every year. The past three years I have spent Thanksgiving in a foreign country. In 2004, I spent the holiday in Mexico on my trip with Operation Renewed Hope. I am thankful for the doors of service that that Thanksgiving opened. In 2005, I spent the holiday in Nias, Indonesia in a little village in the mountains. It took 2-3 hours to hike through rice patties and jungle to get to the clinic site. We were the first people who had come in many, many years to see to the physical needs of these people. They were very open to ALL that we had to offer. The meal that day as a beef and macaroni MRE and fresh pineapple. It was shared with precious friends who love to serve as I do. This year, the holiday finds me in China once again serving with precious people. We were able to have many friends to visit with us and the food was phenomenal. I am not just saying that because we cooked it, it was really good. We all added our own little "from home" ideas and they proved to complement each other very well.
Among our friends we had people from America, England, China and Japan. There were teachers, students and brothers and sisters who joined us. We fed about 30-40 people and had "baskets" left over. We were provided for in a great way by our Father, which made the meal of no expense to us personally. For that we were extremely thankful!!! We celebrated on Saturday because we had to teach on Thursday and then on Sunday many of our friends met with us again and we shared, with each other, the things that we are thankful for.
It was a sweet time of fellowship to hear the hearts of others in thankfulness.
I have been trying my hand at a little origami. I know that is a Japanese art, but hopefully the Chinese won't mind. Anyway, I found a pattern for a turkey online and tried for 2-3 days to fold the crazy thing. Well, look at the pic and tell me if you would know that it is a turkey?! It was quite comical, but fun to try. There is a manger scene pattern online that I am going to try for Christmas, so I will post pics.
Well, I don't want to make this an epistle, so I will go for now and try to post again in the next few days. Don't forget to visit shutterfly and see the latest pics. And please, if you have pics, please post them there for me to see. Have a great day and know that you are in my thoughts.

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