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We just finished up hosting a two week Team Translation Workshop. It is a workshop where 8 missionary teams & their language helpers come out of the tribe & go through this workshop to help them better translate the Bible in the native language of the tribe in which they are ministering too. By us hosting this workshop they say it really helps speed up the Bible translation process by years.

In the middle of this workshop was the American Thanksgiving holiday. Since it is an American Holiday they do not celebrate Thanksgiving over here in Papua New Guinea. But since most of us here at Interface (ITF) & a lot of the missionaries that came to the workshop are American we celebrated it anyways. Tammy was able to help cook a lot of meals in the conference kitchen so she knows quite a bit of what it takes to cook for 100 people. So what does a Thanksgiving meal for 100 people look like? We cooked up 33 pounds of sweat potatoes, 31 pounds of mashed potatoes, 15.5 pounds of green bean casserole, 33 pounds of bread for stuffing, 130 dinner rolls, 4 hotel pans (15"x24") of pumpkin pie & 2 hotel pans or apple cake, & 21 chickens (Turkeys are hard to find here. If you can get one it is quite expensive because they are imported from Australia). O’ did we forget to mention that all this food is prepared from scratch.

Thank you for all the prayers that you send up on our behalf. This last conference has been a lot of hard work & we are pretty tired but it has been fun & encouraging being have to serve out fellow missionaries. We have played a small part in helping them to focused on translating the Bible into the native tongue of the tribe which they are living. We are looking forward t this next month when things are a bit quieter around here just before we go full steam ahead again in January for our January 2008 ITF Program.