Day Before Thanksgiving

Everyday we walked to different churches. These walks were long and unique. Every time the children saw us they would come running towards us and grab our hands. As soon as we arrived at the church we would set up the puppet theater and tables with provisions. We first welcomed the people through songs and a puppet show and then we had them stand in line to receive donations. The puppet show filled the air with laughter and our tables with provisions filled empty stomachs. Days before it was time to leave my pastor asked to speak to me. She gave the opportunity to preach to the people of the church we were rebuilding. I could not believe it! For the next couple of days I spent the night thinking and writing about everything I wanted to share with the people. Sunday arrived and I stood in front of the church and shared how blessed I felt to be there and meet them.

Thanksgiving is the time to reflect on what is important and what we are thankful for, and I am truly appreciative for all of you, your support, and for caring for one another. We have overcome many challenges this year, and have faced each one with perseverance and a commitment to doing the right things.

Let's start with the meat. When you think of Thanksgiving you usually think about eating some kind of meat, unless you are a vegetarian. Not everyone eats turkey, but come on, it wouldn't be Thanksgiving without some kind of meat. Back in 1621, they served birds but not turkey. They tried to find a creature that was abundant to the land. This usually was a type of duck, geese, or swan. And what about the stuffing? They filled these luxurious birds with herbs, onions, and even nuts. They might have even had seafood. A matter of fact, lobster, bass, clams, and oysters might have been served according to History.com staff. These birds don’t gobble, but most Americans would be

Thanksgiving began as a gathering of colonists nearly 400 years ago. In 1620, a ship, known as the Mayflower, was filled with over 100 passengers sailed across the ocean from England to settle in the New World. The passengers aboard consisted of religious separatist who were seeking a home where they could practice their faith

If you are dreading this fine Monday morning (and the beginning of the work week) let me offer up some fantastic news. It’s a short work week as Thanksgiving is only a few days away. The bad news? The relatives are probably coming to have dinner on Thursday. Not to worry! With so many TV marathons slated over this long weekend, there is a good chance you can find yourself a comfy chair and a binge watch with the only interaction being commercial breaks.

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season and is one, if not, the largest shopping “holiday” in the United States. Many view it as an integral part of the holiday season, but what they do not realize, it may actually be destroying it. With each new holiday season, sales encroach earlier into the hours of Thanksgiving, and extend for several days after. With this, Thanksgiving becomes nothing but a hurdle for receiving cheap prices, and the holiday season becomes less and less about family and the gratitude for what we already have, but about greed and buying more possessions we do not need.

So about every around the beginning of December I start getting ready for Christmas. Well really I start getting ready around Thanksgiving by going Black Friday shopping. When I go over to my Grandpas on Thanksgiving we always sit with family and talk then we eat. After most of the family is gone my grandpa and I will sit with a notepad and the Thanksgiving ads from the paper and we will make a list of places and things we want to buy. Then later when all of the family is gone we will watch some tv and go to sleep. In the morning we wake up around 5:30 and eat something and then leave to go Black Friday shopping. We will stay out all day and even pick up something to eat for lunch. Finally we will get home around 2:00pm.

Three days before Thanksgiving Day I lost someone very special to me, due to a terrible sickness. She had Dementia, Diabetes, and two major strokes I was very close to that person. I would always go to her house once a month. When my family wasn 't busy I would spend every waking minute I could with her. She was like my best friend. She was a very godly woman, she would sometimes sing hymns and I would sing with her then we would laugh after words. Every time I go there I just loved seeing her smile at me. Maya Angelou once said that “ No matter what happens or how bad it seems today life does go on and it will be better tomorrow.”

When I search, online I found different stories about “Thanksgiving”. Some say this festival was celebrated by native

As you know in the next few day it will be November. There are many of celebration during this month but today I will talk about thanksgivings. Thanksgiving is the time that we give our expression of gratitude to our parents, our brothers and sisters, our friends and our neighbors, especially to God. In the Bible THANKSGIVING is the giving of thanks to God for everything that we receive at his hand. We receive from him our lives and the food and drink to sustain us. Every good thing in our lives comes ultimately from God and we owe him thanks for all. As part of the worship of God, thanksgiving is offered in both song and prayer. No matter how great the country we might live in, no matter how fantastic supportive from family and friends might

Hey guys it's Haley, and we are back to school once again. I honestly think that they spoiled us with a whole week of school, but I guess I was happy to be off school... Anyway, within the break it was Thanksgiving, so let me just say my family is quite odd. Last Thanksgiving my cousins tricked me into eating a turkey heart, (I didn't actually eat it though) but they still teased me about it. The teasing continued all the way to this Thanksgiving, and it had to stop. Luckily enough, there was no heart in the turkey this year, but they still continue to tease me. So, I still continue to get picked on even though that occurred over a year ago. This is like a non-ending teasing game, but at least I have some things held against them. Alright,

1. Deep in the woods there was an old abandoned mine. The mine was over taken by nature and overgrown. It was shut down in 1932 after it collapsed and killed ten miners. The mine is now closed off with a chain fence. People say that you can still hear the miners smashing their pickaxes against the rocks.

About six months after they moved into their first house, the next door neighbors brought over information about a Summer Bible School to be held at the church across the street. The neighbors encouraged them to enroll the children and they spent some time talking about the joy of

Honk, honk and we were off to Houston, Texas. The trip was about 5 hours long and I was exhausted when we arrived at the Impact Church of Christ. We were there for a mission trip to put on a vacation bible school for inner city kids that were less fortunate. The first day we arrived at the church we had to set up and meet with the other youth groups. My youth group was set up in the furthest building from the auditorium. We had about an hour before we had to pick up the kids for vacation bible school. Before we picked them up, we assigned people within our own youth group to different task groups. I was one of the oldest kids in the youth group so they put me in the yellow group. Yellow group had the oldest kids which were in 5th grade. There were not a lot of 5th graders so they combined the yellow group with blue group which contained 4th graders. After we assigned groups there was a lot to get done still before they arrived. We had to set up our skit before the kids arrived. Our group skit was about how the devil tempts us to do bad things and how we need to fight that temptation. The skit opens as God is telling Eve not to eat from the tree of life, but the devil would jump in and tell Eve that it would make her powerful. She fell for Satan’s trick and ate from the tree of life and then convinced Adam to eat the fruit too. God then kicked them out of the land and forbid them to ever go there again.

Every year on the fourth Thursday of November, people in the United States and Canada will celebrate Thanksgiving. The most common reason why they celebrate Thanksgiving is because they see Thanksgiving as a year to reflect what they are thankful for and to spend time with family, friends, and loved ones. Therefore, on that day, families will prepare Thanksgiving feasts and some traditional foods include turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie, sweet potatoes, corns, and etc. However, my family celebrates Thanksgiving slightly different from the American families. For example, based on my participant observation on how I celebrated Thanksgiving with my relatives this year, I noticed some of my relatives distinguished themselves