Thank you to all of you who have remembered us back home as the Thanksgiving holiday approaches. Thank you for your well wishes via cards and emails!
We will be celebrating by me cooking for 19 Ticos who we consider dear friends and our Tico family. They are our right hands, so to speak, and work with us and for us at the camp. Without their support, we would not be able to do what we do. This is our way of sharing our American tradition with them.
In the midst of all of this activity, the camp is hosting a Pastor's retreat beginning on Friday evening and lasting until Saturday evening. We expect a minimum of 300 Pastor's and up to as many as 500 to be in attendance. Also joining us for our Thanksgiving meal tomorrow, but coming in for the Pastor's retreat will be the Vice-President of Global Outreach Mission, Len Lane. He will be staying here for a week and we have several meetings to attend with him at the camp with architects, contractors etc. as we prepare for upcoming construction teams.
He leaves next Thursday and on Friday arrives the team from Threshold Church in Charlotte, N.C. as they minister at the camp doing a week-long VBS. Today, we will finish the shopping for the Threshold team, the staple foods since we have so much going on before their arrival. Danielle was a bit embarassed on Monday when we left PriceSmart (our Costa Rican Sam's Club) with four shopping carts full of food.
Needless to say, there may not be too many posts over the next week, but I will see what I can do. On that note, the following are our favorite Thanksgiving verses taken from I Chronicles 29:11-13.
"Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, indeed everything that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O Lord, and You exalt Yourself as head over all. Both riches and honor come from You, and You rule over all, and in Your hand is power and might; and it lies in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone. Now therefore, our God, we thank You, and praise Your glorious name".
Happy Thanksgiving to each of you, our family, our church family, dear friends and supporters. We cannot express to you how much we miss you during this holiday season, how blessed we feel to have you as a part of our lives, but more importantly a part of this ministry with us! May God continue to bless you abundantly and beyond what you ask for.
With much love and gratitude,
Ken & Sherri, Danielle, Heather, Kyle & Jordie
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How wonderful to see you sign your post with Danielle's name too. Although we miss her in the states, I am thankful that she is with her family for this holiday season, both Thanksgiving and Christmas. We love all of you and "make mention of you often in our prayers".
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