The following post was written awhile ago, but I haven't had much time on the internet! Sorry for the delay:
Operation “Thanksgiving-in-India-2011” was a total success. Several of the Americans on our team, including myself went to a westernized grocery store where we searched high and low for ingredients to make our feast. First item on the agenda: turkey. Unfortunately, the only thing that we could find was one leg-with the claws still attached. We politely declined and unanimously agreed that we could just pretend that chicken was in fact a turkey this year. We stocked the cart full of all kinds of ingredients and headed over to Jens house. Jen is an amazing woman who is living here in India with her husband and 3 kids. They are missionaries here that our team met at a Franklin Graham Festival a couple weeks back. Jen just so happens to be around 6 months pregnant, so you can imagine that a group of midwives had plenty to connect with her about. The family graciously opened up their home to our team of 21 on the condition that we would help cook. We, of course, were thrilled with the idea of getting to be apart of cooking Thanksgiving meal, especially for the Europeans and Australians who have never had the opportunity to enjoy the delights of a Thanksgiving dinner. We happily obliged and our Thanksgiving plans took off. A group of us headed over to the house in the morning. We split up jobs and before we knew it the chopping and slicing and cooking and baking and boiling and frying was well on its way. I was responsible for the dessert. Jen, like I said, is amazing and she had her mom bring her canned pumpkin from America and a make-your-own cheese kit. She was able to make her on cream cheese and I therefore, was able to make a pumpkin cheesecake and a pumpkin pie. The rest of the team wandered in at different times, and a total of about 30 people gathered together and enjoyed what seemed like a real American Thanksgiving feast- all the way here in India. It was marvelous. After dinner we had a time of worship and then played games and watched Christmas movies.
I have to say in the midst of everything we are apart of and experiencing here God still wants to bless us.
Operation “Thanksgiving-in-India-2011” was a total success. Several of the Americans on our team, including myself went to a westernized grocery store where we searched high and low for ingredients to make our feast. First item on the agenda: turkey. Unfortunately, the only thing that we could find was one leg-with the claws still attached. We politely declined and unanimously agreed that we could just pretend that chicken was in fact a turkey this year. We stocked the cart full of all kinds of ingredients and headed over to Jens house. Jen is an amazing woman who is living here in India with her husband and 3 kids. They are missionaries here that our team met at a Franklin Graham Festival a couple weeks back. Jen just so happens to be around 6 months pregnant, so you can imagine that a group of midwives had plenty to connect with her about. The family graciously opened up their home to our team of 21 on the condition that we would help cook. We, of course, were thrilled with the idea of getting to be apart of cooking Thanksgiving meal, especially for the Europeans and Australians who have never had the opportunity to enjoy the delights of a Thanksgiving dinner. We happily obliged and our Thanksgiving plans took off. A group of us headed over to the house in the morning. We split up jobs and before we knew it the chopping and slicing and cooking and baking and boiling and frying was well on its way. I was responsible for the dessert. Jen, like I said, is amazing and she had her mom bring her canned pumpkin from America and a make-your-own cheese kit. She was able to make her on cream cheese and I therefore, was able to make a pumpkin cheesecake and a pumpkin pie. The rest of the team wandered in at different times, and a total of about 30 people gathered together and enjoyed what seemed like a real American Thanksgiving feast- all the way here in India. It was marvelous. After dinner we had a time of worship and then played games and watched Christmas movies.
I have to say in the midst of everything we are apart of and experiencing here God still wants to bless us.
Definitely will be a Thanksgiving I’ll never forget.
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