Thanksgiving 2013

Had our first feast as a church, celebrating God's preservation in our town hall setting. Working off his Mayflower legacy - Carolyn, as well - Ben gave a history lesson of the colony after our supper. 

 

The spread was impressive, for our size, and invited guests and relatives filled out the tables, adding old GRC returnees, too.  Perhaps the original Thanksgiving's loss of 1/2 the colony was a little too close a parallel!

Church has been a rich experience for the boys, who relish food and social time.
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Later in the week, we enjoyed our own Thanksgiving, Carolyn's crafts for the table making things homey.

 

for ourselves and our Swiss guests, Julian, Ann, Leoni, and "Big" Jack, who flew in for the week. Julian is Scottish, Ann French, making Switzerland their home.

I cut corners with the food, with a hectic church feast days before, somewhat wondering the meaning of a repeat event, but it was great to tie some old threads together.