Football, Food, Family.
Turns out, Thanksgiving in Israel actually wasn’t much different than Thanksgiving back home. The day started off with a “friendly” football game amongst the J Squad guys. The boys of Olur (my team), Shekinah, and Unwritten laid a sound whooping on the dudes from Journey, Chrysalis, and Ninja in a game that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score of 4-3.
Then our squad gathered together for an awesome Thanksgiving dinner at the edge of the Judean Desert. We filled up on turkey, stuffing, gravy, mashed potatoes, candied yams, green bean casserole, corn, carrots, brownies, apple crisp, and no-bake cookies before the sun went down, then watched a little Thanksgiving-day football via the Internet. Great day.
We spent Friday night in the Tel Aviv airport lobby, woke up at 3:15 a.m. to go through security and check our bags, then hopped a plane to Istanbul, Turkey, for a six-day debrief. So, we’re here safe and sound, and we head out December 3rd to our ministry locations in Turkey for this month.
I’m gonna try to pump out two blogs while we’re in Istanbul, but until then, check out this Thanksgiving video Ashlee Hillis made for our team. Take care.
