The complete, happy Corder family
Mom, Dad and Glenn arrived at the hospital an hour before she was born, and the doctor arrived just 5 minutes before! Close call! I had studied my book that I had in Africa called Where There Is No Doctor and tried to get Glenn to keep it in the car "just in case" he needed it; he refused to even consider the possibility that he might need to deliver little Rachel on the 45 minute drive out to the hospital. We thank God that everything went smoothly and for His beautiful gift to the Corder family!
Unfortunately though, Carolyn was still in the hospital and missed our Thanksgiving get-together on Thursday at the Eden House. We saved her some turkey and all the trimmings though!
It barely fit!
We ordered 2 turkeys for the 16 adults and 12 children. Karen cooked one and I cooked the other. As you can see, the turkey barely fit into my oven! I had 2 inches on the bottom and 1 inch to spare at the top!
But it turned out just right! Glenn actually cooked the turkey while I was up at the Eden House setting up and decorating for our Thanksgiving feast.
Just a note here: In Budapest, we have to order turkeys ahead of time because they don't sell whole turkey's in the grocery stores except at Christmas time. Most of the year, if you want a turkey and catch them at a meat store before they cut the turkeys up, you can buy one that weighs about 20 kilos (44 pounds). They don't kill them until they are huge because they usually cut them up into pieces to sell. Only at Christmas can you buy a whole turkey that is "small" at about 20 pounds. (Hungarians don't celebrate our American holiday called Thanksgiving in November. They do, however, celebrate it as part of the big celebration on August 20th commemorating when Hungary became a country.)
Glenn carves the turkey
We had invited all our co-workers in Hungary to join us but most of them were doing something with their "team" so it was mainly the ones who live in Budapest, the Corder family (minus Carolyn), one of our language tutors, and our friends, the Snyders. We had tons of food and 12 baskets left over!
The fellowship was sweet!
James loved the black olives!
On Saturday, we drove about 1 1/2 hours to the western part of Hungary to enjoy another Thanksgiving meal with the Brown's. There were a total of four families at that gathering. We had a great time, and it was nice to get away for a day!
Doesn't he look at home in the pulpit?
Glenn was asked to share at our church on Sunday a testimony of Thanksgiving. Fortunately, Gabor was there to translate for Glenn since the Hungarian language is still "in progress". Glenn shared a little bit about the commitment he made while we were at ILC (this time last year!) to memorize Scripture and how God has blessed him through it. At the end of the worship service, one of the ladies in the church asked him which Scriptures he had memorized because the Lord convicted her that she needed to be doing that too! Glenn gave her the 6 verses that are known as the Roman Road (the road to salvation) to start with, but he really has a stack of them! It was encouraging to realize that God can speak through a translator too!
Well, now it is officially the Christmas season!
Cile at Campona Mall
We didn't see Christmas decorations in the mall until about 2 weeks ago, but they have had decorations for sale for over a month. However, we did notice that they were NOT for sale before November 1, unlike in America!
We will be flying to the U.S. for a Member Care conference in Richmond, Virginia at ILC from December 10-14. From there, we will spend some vacation time in Tennessee with Chris and Kate (son and daughter in law) before going on down to Marietta to visit with our parents, brothers and sisters. We were blessed by friends Dennis and Karen at our church in Marietta with a gift of sky miles to fly Kari and Jonathan (daughter and son in law) from France to Marietta for Christmas to be with us!! It will be wonderful to have the whole family together! We have not seen our son in almost a year, so I am counting down the days! Thank you Karen and Dennis!
We will return to Budapest on January 7. While we are gone, the Eden House is going to be "covered" by 3 couples, each taking a week to 10 days. Pray for these couples, and thank God for each one of them!
Have a good week!
3 comments:
Wow - that's quite the turkey carving your bird (ha ha).
We're counting downt he days too!
Hey Cile,
Barb Pfahl was wondering if you are going to drop by NCCS during your visit to Marietta; I told her I'd check with you. And I got to talk to Kristen for a while today at an NCCS breakfast; we both miss you so much!
Hugs...
how fun you get to with your kids for Christmas!!!
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