Catching Up: Campus Thanksgiving Party

Life was busy the last couple weeks in November, so that is why these are a bit outdated.










We had a campus Thanksgiving party the Friday before Thanksgiving. It was a lot of fun and we saw lots of people from different "cliques" at the campus come. In all (including MTW missionaries and staff) we had 36 people here at our house. We did BBQ (which is always a big hit, especially if Yu makes spicy sauce, naam jeem). We played games and enjoyed each others company. Thank you for praying for that night and please continue to pray for these young men and women.

(First pic, Paul and Avi skewering squid for the BBQ; Second pic, our prep team having lunch together).
Avi (the guy pictured with Paul in the first picture) is another story all to his own. He is actually here with YWAM until the end of January. I believe Dave met him somehow and invited him to English worship. He is Indian and speaks English very well. Anyway, Avi has some extra time on his hands so he is helping our team out in different ways. He's been an encouragement to get to know as he has suffered for his faith in India but it surely doesn't stop him. Please pray for Avi as he ministers here. He's here to learn about cross cultural ministry thru YWAM.





Another encouraging sign at this party was the leadership Thai Christians took. Here we have Huu (standing up with green shirt on) and Max (sitting next to her with red shirt) leading everyone in a game of Maffia. They loved this game.








And, Paul had some "games" planned too. The object of this game was to see who could blow the raw egg into the other person's mouth the fastest. (Pat, the guy on the right won!) The Thais weren't too eager to try this one out!!!

And, perhaps the thing that got me the most excited about the whole night was this guy's shirt! It says,

"NITTANY LIONS

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY"

Need I say more???? When I saw this I about flipped. Of course, he had no idea what his shirt said but I explained to him why I got so excited when I saw it. You never know what you're going to see here! And, no, he's not high, the smoke from the BBQ outside got in his eyes. GO PENN STATE!

*for those of you not familiar with central pennsylvania, I will enlighten you. Penn State is about a 20 minute drive from my parent's house, thus making my little hometown die hard Penn State fans!