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This past weekend was a whirlwind of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing,…and Bollywood dancing?!? If that made no sense to you whatsoever, let us back track to this past Friday when we did some last minute practice for Thanksgiving Service and Celebration Banquet. It had been two weeks since our last practice, but we had plenty of time for the SUPs do a couple of skit run throughs, and for the Freshmen to sing and record the soundtrack for our Praise God finale.

Fast-forwarding to Sunday morning, we started off the day cooking up a storm at various staff houses. Thanks to all those who came at 9:30 in the morning to help out. There’s no way we could’ve cranked out 200 servings of mashed potatoes, gravy, corn bread, stuffing, salad, ham, and corn all on our own. Also a big shout out to all who helped to set up and making the room festive for this special occasion.

The Thanksgiving Service started off with some rocking praise from our student band. Next, Pastor Daniel gave us a message with the help of the SUPs skit and salvation testimony from Tony, one of the a2f staff. Pastor Daniel spoke on Matthew 18, the Parable of the Unmerciful Servant. He showed us how detrimental it is to hold on to a pessimistic “glass half empty” outlook on life and how that closes our hearts from seeing all the things that God has given us including the fact that we have been forgiven. To put into practice what we just heard, everyone in the congregation took home some thank you cards to express our gratitude towards those who have impacted our lives.

After service, we switched gears into Celebration Banquet mode. Like I said before, there was plenty of food to go around and everyone was amazed by the wide variety of sides to compliment the delicious turkey. The Freshmen surprised us with an intro act and dance to start off our banquet. Next we had a rousing round of Human Bingo where each group sent up their representatives for various competition categories. We heard some creative attempts at saying “Happy Thanksgiving” in multiple languages, harmonizing with “Row Row Row Your Boat”, and a couple Thanksgiving-themed raps and haikus. We ended the night with the highly anticipated finale dance! This is definitely a night to remember for years to come. Hope you guys are enjoying the long weekend. See you back in SD next week!