Happy Thanksgiving!

This is a picture from our first "event" with the international students from Colorado College. We took a few up Queen's Canyon to Dorothy Falls (see picture below...and turn your head sideways). There is a girl from China that I totally clicked with...Yulan is her name. She invited me over for lunch one day and made this delicious stir-fry. At CC they have block classes which means they study one subject for an entire month, which I think is a great idea. She is from a Buddhist background, which we talked about a little, but guess what her class is for this block--Reading the Bible as Literature. How amazing is that! So we've had some good conversations about the Bible, what she thinks of it, etc. She said she's never read the Bible before...that's the only text book for the class. They have to memorize all the books of the Bible and Psalm 23. God has totally been working in our ministry there. Tonight we're having a Thanksgiving dinner for all the international students here in Colorado Springs. Most have never experienced a real Thanksgiving meal before...we're also having square-dancing, which will be a cultural experience for them. I'm so excited!


OK, so these are the big horn sheep that hang out on our property. They LOVE Aspen Manor (the house I live in)...here's a picture taken from the window of my room. Sometimes they don't run away...even when you're like 2 feet from them. It's kind of cool, but kind of scary at the same time. They'll just stare at you, and I feel like they're going to charge at me or something...hasn't happen yet. :)

Face lift

So the dark background was a little too much, seeing that it's getting dark outside SO much earlier now...so sad! Thought the polka-dots would brighten things up.

I have some exciting news to share with you all...we have a new director! As some of you know, Drew, our current director is getting deployed to Iraq in the beginning of December. Don is our new director...he's awesome. He's older then Drew, and has 30 plus years of over-seas missions work, which is amazing! We are all really going to miss Drew...especially his wife Debby, but we're glad that they were able to fill his shoes quickly.

That's all for now!