Happy Thanksgiving!

Hello dear family and friends,

We would like to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Feeling grateful with our friend Emily

As much as we miss you and would love to see you all and share this day with you, the Lord has been good to us and has granted us content hearts even on this holiday.

We want to express our deepest thanks to God for the gift of His Son.....For His Spirit and His word to guide and strengthen us. We thank God for our children and their spouses. We thank God for our grandson Owen. We thank God for our grandson who is to be born in March. We thank God for our Christian parents, for our siblings and for our friends in Christ.
We thank God for His provision for us to be here in Lesotho. We thank God for those of you who have given of your own finances; this is so humbling and we give glory to God for those gifts.
We are thankful to God for the beautiful staff and beautiful children here at Beautiful Gate that give us joy in serving each day.
We are thankful for good health and hearts that are at peace.
The list could go on........

Our prayer for you all and for ourselves is to be thankful everyday. And we pray against a complaining spirit which seems to come easy to us human beings. We as American's are beyond blessed. The abundance and affluence seems normal or even average when you live in America. But when you live in a third world country you soon realize that that is not normal or average for the rest of the world. But even so, the people here are more thankful than anyone I know. I hope to learn from them and be changed for the good in regards to thankfulness.
As Christian's we are all called to be thankful in all things. Let us all be changed to be a more thankful people! This is part of our witness to the world!

Have a blessed day with your loved ones!

Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thess. 5:18

Went out for a Thanksgiving Day
lunch with our wonderful volunteers