RANKSgiving Was A Success!

Today we spent a good part of the day at the church. A few of our LIFEgroups decided to put together a huge Thanksgiving meal and invite the military personnel from Goodfellow AFB here in San Angelo. We called it RANKSgiving. Clever, huh! We've been planning this for a month and about 75 people from the LIFEgroups bought and prepared enough food for 150 - 200 people. We had donations from Sams and Walmart, and even Logans donated 200 of their delicious rolls. I'm telling you, this was a feast! We ate at noon and then some went to the Family Center for a game of volleyball while others headed to the big tv in the Homebuilder's classroom for a little football. We didn't have as many military show up as we would have liked but the day was definitely a success. We kept saying to each other how nice it was to be with "family" from the church. Traditional family gatherings are great but if your family isn't traditional, it sometimes makes the holidays difficult. My extended family is far away and gathering with them today would have been nice but since that wasn't possible, I'm so blessed to have gathered with the next best thing, my church family.