Thanksgiving

Canadian Thanksgiving holiday!

There's always plenty of things to be thankful for. Like health, good friends, loving family, a special someone (or lack of?), etc.

And you know what we did to celebrate the weekend?

Celebration! Church put together a huge free thanksgiving dinner on Sunday evening. They spent the previous week with a mission team from South Carolina walking around campus, and inviting university and college students. Many who were not able to spend thanksgiving with family, or even international students, some of which have never heard of thanksgiving before.

Turn out was pretty good, around 60-70 people to consume most of the food. 2 turkeys, hams, chilis, chicken, side dishes, 12 pies, cakes, brownies, cookies, and lots of softdrinks.

We even had about 5 homeless people come in, which we then invited to eat their fill.

A great evening of thankfullness, food, games, making friends, and reaching out to the community.

Teaching

This past weekend was an altogether new experience for me. I had my first chance at teaching to an audience.

I've already spoken, danced, or just had fun on stage in front of a few thousand people. I've also tought various outdoors skills to groups. But this was my first time teaching leadership skills and values, even if it was only to a hundred or so people.

Over the weekend, my family was brought down to Michigan to speak at a business conference being held there. We were given a chance to share our faith in God, our values, our experiences, and our love for family and ministry.

I covered two topics during my time there. The first, was about a youth leadership conference I attended some years ago (and consequently became a Christian). Then, I tought on the subject of integration. The fact that we need to openly combine all aspects of our lives. You can't only be a christian at church, you can't only be a parent when you're with your child, and you can't only be in business when you're at work!

A great example of integration, is driving down to a business conference a couple of days early, with your family, to see the sights and make a short vacation out of the business trip.

The whole weekend was a great experience for my family and I, and we are incredibly humbled that they would want us to go down there and share with them.