Fruit of Our Labour?

Though Thanksgiving is celebrated in several different countries I have never seen it celebrated here in Brazil. So, with its arrival this past week I had not mentioned it Alexandre.

He, however, brought up the subject as a possible church family activity. "What would you think about telling our people about Thanksgiving and what it means. I think that it would be good for them to know about the holiday and we could use fruit as our theme.
He went on to share his idea. We would focus our "Family Time" on the fruit theme and each family would bring something made from fruit (cake, salad, juice, jello, pudding or just the fruit itself). We would have a mini feast, play some games and be able to share the Word of God with our people. Both Dawn and I liked the idea.

We played fruit games: eating watermelon, banana toss, decorate the orange and guava relay. Then we ate some luscious fruit deserts. I preached about the church being a family (Acts 2:42-44) and several hands were raised at the invitation. Even though it rained so hard that I thought that the roof was going to cave in we had a good attendance (I counted 48) and a great time. And afterwards everybody got a ride home in our van! Which is still a novelty for several of our kids!

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