We Feasted!!

The teachers in our ESL program and the senior adult fellowship of our church host a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for our ESL students and their families and friends. This year we had a full house - and a feast not of just the turkey/ trimmings but of sharing faith stories and praying in many tongues. Four students from our class, which is pre-beginner, came with their families: our Tanzanian lady brought her son and his family; the dental hygienist from So. America came with her brother; the family from Burma and single Mom from Mexico came with friends.
There was the usual laugher over trying to explain "dressing", sweet potato fluff, and the funny looking orange stuff in the pie. The first highlight of the evening was the sharing of what we all were thankful for and the ESLers all said their thanks for our classes, the church that hosted the program, families and the USA.
The second highlight was the testimony of the Indian minister, PraDeep, who is in one of our advanced classes and is the pastor of the Indian church in our area. He told of the missionary that had given a Christian tract to his grandfather without a word, how that tract had changed the life of his grandfather, how his grandfather raised his children to become Christians and how that father raised his children, including PraDeep, in the Christian faith. And now this third generation is on the mission field. He brought the house down when he said that his family feasted on white bread (the Word brought by the American missionary 70 years ago) and now he was bringing brown bread back to the country that had first fed him. Not a dry eye in the room.
" 'Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven; my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven, and gives life to the world.' They said to him, 'Lord give us this bread always.' " Jesus said to them, "I AM the Bread of Life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst." John 6:32-35

I must add that his story reminded me of a dear sister in the Lord, who is in her 80's and is a faithful minister through the use of tracts, to everyone she meets and anywhere she goes.