Thanksgiving Dinner

This coming Saturday night the 22nd, we along with our teammates the Kienzles are hosting a Thanksgiving dinner for some of our Bolivian friends. They do not celebrate Thanksgiving here, so we're hosting this as an opportunity to share some of our culture with them and also as a way to open our home in order to get to know them better. We're excited to do this, but also a little anxious over preparing Thanksgiving dinner for 30 people. We'll be renting tables, chairs, place settings, etc and clearing out our living room furniture to set up inside. We've planned our menu and will be serving the traditional stuff - turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn pudding, stuffing, broccoli salad, rolls, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, and apple pie. So, as you are making your plans for celebrating with your family and friends, will you pray for our Thanksgiving banquet? You could pray for these things - that Laura and I will be able to plan and cook the food without too much stress (we're planning on having a Bolivian woman or 2 help us out), that Bubba and Paul can know how to support us, help us when needed, and get out of the way when needed :) for the words that Bubba will share (in Spanish) about why we celebrate Thanksgiving, and most of all, that our Bolivian friends will feel loved, welcomed, and that it will be an enjoyable time for all involved (our kids too).