We may be in Haiti, but that is no reason to miss out on a great Thanksgiving meal with brothers and sisters in Christ. Every year, the missionary community of Cite Lumiere comes together to celebrate American Thanksgiving. Normally, our field directors, Rob and Becky Thompson host the event at their home, but this year, they are with family in New Jersey to celebrate, so we offered to have the event at our home.
At 1:30pm on Thanksgiving Day, 110 American, German, South African, Haitian, and Canadian missionaries started arriving at our home with their arms loaded with turkeys, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casseroles, cranberry sauce, pumpkin pie, and all the other fixings to make a delicious Thanksgiving meal.
Besides great food and fellowship, there were testimonies of thanksgiving for God’s provision over the past year, and even the past week, as God provided abundantly, when humanly, the tasks seemed to be too big; of healing for those who have been sick, and God’s provision as we strive to serve him here in Haiti.
We are so thankful for the community of believers that God has placed in our lives here. It is a blessing to work alongside brothers and sisters from around the world to minister to the hearts and lives of the Haitian people. We have so very much to be thankful for this year.
*I have to brag a little bit on the second grade class that I work with at CLCS. The Thanksgiving banner at the top of this blogpost was made by them and their language arts teacher for our Thanksgiving Celebration. Didn’t they do a tremendous job?!?!?!
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