Christmas Party

While some of us are scratching away with our final papers for the semester, good things are thrown on our way as foretaste of the Christmas holiday coming soon. If what I experienced at the GMI Christmas party is a prelude, then I must see to it that I get done with final school papers in order to enjoy this holiday. As an international student I got to enjoy the Global Mission Institute, Christmas party this time of the year with food, music, humor and gifts.

Highlights for the Global mission Institute Christmas party 2008 : An international student from faraway Nagarland in India, met with a former missionary kid and they started speaking Hindhi. Toshi felt so much at home, actually felt like he was on the streets of his home country speaking with Dale Howard, who is fluent in Hindhi.
The Stoneback Brass, comprised of a father Ron, and his triplet daughters ( Margie, Sarah and Kristin with Margie being one of Luther's own in Youth, Children family program) treated us to the oldies as they played their trumpets."Come, they told me," "O, when the Saints," sounded great in trumpet.
Music talents were clearly expressed in Norwegian, Kiswahili, Korean and German. And of course, we sang in English too! with a ten year old Everret stealing the show with ," I have the victory in Jesus!" At the end of the evening each of us went away with a Christmas gift from "Father Christmas." This "father" from Roseville Lutheran church actually knows what we all need, awesome!
And so I leave the party Stub hall, to go home (no, actually to the library) thinking to myself, "what a wonderful world, with the wonder of God's love."