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(see pictures related to this post) There are so many things to be thankful. We had a great time especially remembering some of those things last week. We have four students over for thanksgiving: two from China, one from Turkey & one from India. Thanksgiving is the one day of the year that I do some of the cooking (The turkey and the stuffing – I’m proud of this…:-) ). This year we had a real treat. We were concerned because our Indian friend is a vegetarian and our Turkish friend doesn’t eat pork (usually sausage in the stuffing) so we asked our Indian friend to bring something that he enjoys eating in addition to the potatoes etc. We brought a wonderful vegetable curry with Indian Rice. It was very delicious, spicy but delicious. We will never forget this.

After a wonderful meal, we had everyone share something they are thankful for. It was neat hearing the student’s hearts. We learned about parents, friends here, opportunities. Our Turkish friend just got married in her country just before she came.   Then my son took out the Risk board and we played a ruthless game of world domination…:-) One comment hit me. A student commented… “I feel like I am at home… eating dinner… playing games together… Oh I miss this.” (The jist of it…) Wow that was awesome.

Tags: Indians, Moores, Thanksgiving, Turk

“The TCU ministry is going better than I expected… Relationships are happening…” went a discussion in a recent team meeting with TCU volunteers and students leaders. The semester has begun at TCU and we have hit the ground running. Darren, our International Christian Fellowship (ICF – ISI’s name on campus) President represented us at the TCU Activities fair with several signups.

The Moores, a key volunteers couple for the TCU team hosted a Labor Day Party at their home. In addition to many “old” international student friends of theirs, three new Japanese students came as did one new key volunteer.

Several mission minded American students have joined us and have done a wonderful job as we have tried to implement our rallying cry for the school year, “relationships!” They, with our key Christian students, are also working to develop Life Transformation Groups (LTG) for the purpose of discipling students.

In addition, we continue to meet weekly on Friday nights. Twice a month, we join with the UTA ministry at the Yabukis’ On the other months, we have a TCU Bible Study on campus and a fun event with the Moores. (see www.tcuicf.com for our schedule)

We are excited about what God is going to do through this ministry.

Tags: LTG, Moores, TCU