Over 20 Students At Our House For Thanksgiving!

For­get stuff­ing the turkey–we stuffed our apart­ment this Thanks­giv­ing! Not only did Glen’s broth­er and Paula’s col­lege room­mate trav­el down from Wash­ing­ton state, but we were able to host over 20 Stan­ford stu­dents in our home for lunch on turkey day (near­ly 30 total peo­ple)!

Let me tell you–that’s an awful lot of peo­ple to cram into one apart­ment!

In case you’re won­der­ing why they did­n’t head home to vis­it their fam­i­lies, all the stu­dents were inter­na­tion­al stu­dents (most­ly from Sin­ga­pore). Trav­el­ing inter­na­tion­al­ly and get­ting jet lagged is a big has­sle (and pret­ty expen­sive) for such a short break from school.

For many of them, this was their first real cel­e­bra­tion of Thanks­giv­ing. Think about it–how many oth­er coun­tries cel­e­brate the pil­grims’ sur­vival? To my knowl­edge, only Cana­da…

Sev­er­al of our guests were already fol­low­ing Christ, but many have yet to expe­ri­ence God’s trans­form­ing love. The King­dom of God flows through rela­tion­ships, and so please pray that God would use our hos­pi­tal­i­ty as a cat­a­lyst for spir­i­tu­al growth in these stu­dents’ lives.

Cook­ing for so many peo­ple was a huge task, as was seat­ing them. Thanks to Greg, Rachel, and Ailin for help­ing to pre­pare the food, and many thanks to South­bay Chris­t­ian Cen­ter and Three Cities Assem­bly for loan­ing us chairs and tables, and a heap of thanks to Pas­tor Mike Brown of Inter­na­tion­al Assem­bly of God (as well as his wor­ship leader Paul) and Josh Wong and Ming Fai Wong for help­ing to cart the chairs and tables to our place. We could­n’t have done it with­out you!

UPDATE: our Pho­to Gallery has been updat­ed with pic­tures from the Thanks­giv­ing feast!