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This time of the year, Americans get together with family and friends to feast and reflect.  Over this American Thanksgiving Holiday, my wife and I will be gathering with some of North Wake’s Far Flung Families, friends living and working for God’s kingdom all over the world. It’ll be our first time missing a gathering with family around poultry, fall vegetables, and pie. Like many families, we take time at Thanksgiving to discuss ways we’re thankful to God, especially His goodness.

Read:  John 20:21-22 I was sitting at a table with an old friend who leads a large and thriving church.  "We try to make everything easy for the members of our church," he said to me.  "We encourage them to get to know people in our community, whether in their neighborhood or office or anywhere else.  Then all they have to do is invite those people to church.  At church, those people will hear

44 He said to them, “This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms.” 45 Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures. 46 He told them, “This is what is written: The Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at