Another prayer request

But first, the amazing news is that Kristi's surgery was a huge success and they found no cancer. Check out the details at the Rogalske blog. Rejoice in a special Christmas gift for their family.

Now for another request. On Friday night, we are hosting a department Christmas party for everyone in my group at work. There will be over 20 Chinese nationals at our house for this shindig. WHOA!

We are renting furniture, borrowing a ping pong table, installing lighting (for the ping pong of course), and making lots of food. I'm working on a kareoke machine. We are having some chinese food and BBQ wings catered in. Everything else is being handled by the resident chef extraordinaire, Aimee. She's making homemade pizza rolls, chicken teriyaki, deviled eggs, and the list goes on. I've got an amazing wife in a million and one different ways.

What an endeavor and we decided to do it this Friday, on Monday, due to some conflicts with the management staff.

We'll eat, play games and have a gift exchange. We will also share the meaning of Christmas and give each person a gift. A publisher here in China received copyright permission to publish a chinese/english version of "The Dream of the Three Trees". Perhaps you have heard of it. It tells the story of the birth, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus. Each person will get a copy of the book. We received them today and it is SUPER well done. Since I'm having trouble with picture loading on the blog, I can't show the cover of this chinese/english version. It is changed slightly to align with a traditional Chinese folklore story but the biblical content is the same.

Pray big for the seeds planted on Friday night. I believe that this will be the first time that some of these people have ever heard the name Jesus. It will certainly be the first time hearing the true meaning of Christmas for most, if not all in attendance.

We'll definitely post pictures and the story after the fact. Thanks for checking in.

On a kid note, Elijah picked up a new favorite song at his friend Alexander's house this week. Remember the mid-90s hit "Everybody dance now" by C+C Music Factory? Elijah now walks around the house proclaiming "Everybody dance now!!" Nice.