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Ready to Serve It's Thanksgiving , and Legacy Church hosted its annual Thanksgiving Dinner for the students and families connected to the English Language Program . As a Pastor, I am seldom more proud of Legacy than when we provide the food, table hosts, and loving atmosphere for the international families in our community.  Lue Kraltchev, our Literacy Missions Director ,and her team planned and served the meal to over 400 students, their families and friends. Over 50 Legacy volunteers cooked, served and donated all the food and drinks except the ham and turkey meat. Full Plates and Hearts Legacy members and ELP faculty members also served as table hosts . They were the English experts for those who sat at their tables. I sat by two families from China, and we shared as much as we could about our homes, families, and language while sharing traditional, homemade Thanksgiving food. These table talks were where life connected to life, and hearts opened to the love of God...

If you have followed this blog for long, you know that Legacy Church hosts an annual Thanksgiving dinner for the students and their families connected to Legacy's English Language Program . Every year God reveals to us again a peek at heaven recorded in Revelation 7:9-10 : "After this I looked, and there in front of me was a huge crowd of people. They stood in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb. There were so many that no one could count them. They came from every nation, tribe, people and language. They were wearing white robes. In their hands they were holding palm branches. They cried out in a loud voice,    'Salvation belongs to our God,    who sits on the throne.    Salvation also belongs to the Lamb.'" (NIRV; italics mine) (I had concluded The Story that Sunday morning by teaching on The End! You can hear that message here . It was wonderful to get a glimpse of what we had seen in Scripture that morning the same eveni...

When Jesus entered Jerusalem on what we have dubbed Palm Sunday, he continued his mission call for people to "change how you live, the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand [in me]." Jesus' presence that day confirmed God's promise to make Abraham's spiritual descendants more numerous than the stars in the heavens was still the Storyline for all time . The events that followed in Jerusalem that week established Jesus as the Promised One and the Rescuer for all peoples. Vision, for me, is what the mission looks like when it is complete; ( Jesus On Leadership ) and, the Scriptures provide a picture of Jesus' completed mission in The Revelation of John, Chapter 7 (verses 9 and 10): After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in ...