November: Maybe We Should "Just Be Friends"?

Welcome to week 3 of November. Which isn't looking quite as delightful as I had anticipated. There are definite bright spots, though!



#1- The Flame Goes Forward
We've had two days of celebrating the year of Jubilee for YWAM. Loren & Darlene Cunningham were actually here and spoke for much of our "conference". It was very much fun and SUPER encouraging. We got to hear all about AMAZING things YWAM has planned for the future around the world. So so so so cool to hear about amazing things God is doing everywhere.

#2- SOTB is on outreach.
This is happy and sad. We miss them already. One of my friends left on Friday and then the rest of the SOTBers headed off today after lunch. We got to pray and send them off, which was great. They are heading to work with a church in Ohio and I know it's going to be an amazing time for them. However, this place is very quickly turning into a ghost town.

#3 - There is a plague going around.
YIKES. Please pray for us.. so far we've had 3 or 4 people get really sick with very high fevers. No bueno. Please pray that it stops spreading and that everyone gets all the way better. Having a million things going on this week does not help our immune systems as we're all getting sleep deprived trying to get our mountains of homework and projects all done this week. (I'm chugging Airborne like crazy... and praying that I don't get sick!)

#4- Elementary Thanksgiving Program
While we've got lots of homework to do this week, our class time will be a little lighter. We'll get to spend some classes making banners and decorating for and setting up the the Thanksgiving program that the elementary students will put on. It's an evening program so we'll need to be there to staff it, but the kids are so cute, I'm sure it will be lots of fun. It just means another turn of cleaning, setting up and tearing down the gym. Not my favorite. Oh well. It's worth it.

#5- Elementary Thanksgiving Feast!
This sounds like it will be lots of fun. The kids dress in costume and we're making an "authentic" Thanksgiving Feast where we celebrate God's faithfulness and provision by thanking Him for all He has done.

and then... my favorite November week of ALL... :D