{"id":118,"date":"2002-12-01T20:07:48","date_gmt":"2002-12-02T04:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/archives\/2002\/12\/01\/over-20-students-at-our-house-for-thanksgiving\/"},"modified":"2002-12-01T20:07:48","modified_gmt":"2002-12-02T04:07:48","slug":"over-20-students-at-our-house-for-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2002\/12\/01\/over-20-students-at-our-house-for-thanksgiving","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 Students At Our House For Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The nearly 30 people we had in our house for Thanksgiving!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/thanksgiving_group.jpg?resize=200%2C132\" width=\"200\" height=\"132\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\">Forget stuffing the turkey\u2013we stuffed our apartment this Thanksgiving!  Not only did Glen\u2019s brother and Paula\u2019s 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)!<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you\u2013that\u2019s an awful lot of people to cram into one apartment!<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re wondering why they didn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<p>For many of them, this was their first real celebration of Thanksgiving. Think about it\u2013how many other countries celebrate the pilgrims\u2019 survival? To my knowledge, only Canada\u2026<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Students eating Thanksgiving meal\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.glenandpaula.com\/archives\/thanksgiving_table.jpg?resize=200%2C150\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<p>Several of our guests were already following Christ, but many have yet to experience God\u2019s 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\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbay.org\/\">Southbay Christian Center<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ca.org\/\">Three Cities Assembly<\/a> 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\u2019t have done it without you!<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: our <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/gallery\/\">Photo Gallery<\/a> has been updated with <a href=\"http:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/gallery\/thanksgiving\/\">pictures from the Thanksgiving feast<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget stuffing the turkey\u2013we stuffed our apartment this Thanksgiving!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanfordministry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Ded-1U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}