Having LeTourneau for Dinner

No, Le Tourneau isn't some fancy dish, it's a Christian university in Texas that has one of the top aviation programs in the nation. MMS is privileged to have an ongoing relationship with their aviation department that manifests itself every year with a team of aviation students coming up to spend a week in our hangar. MMS is blessed by having all the extra man and woman power for the week and the students gain nearly 40 hours of practical experience toward their 60 hour practical experience graduation requirement. It's win-win for everyone.

This year, eight students and a faculty advisor made the trip and tonight we were honored to host the advisor and four students in our home for dinner...hence, having "Letourneau" for dinner.

At the dinner table with half of the LeTourneau team.

Karen whipped up two 9x13 dishes of "taco bake" and a big green salad for dinner and then followed that with a monster pan of home made "snickers ice cream cake" which tastes as amazing as it sounds (vanilla ice cream, caramel, peanuts, whipped cream, crushed Oreo cookies, and fudge sauce). Oh my...

But as if that weren't enough...we finished the evening with a rousing game of Dutch Blitz. One of the students has sorted eggs on her father's farm ever since she was a little girl. She said she could sort 7,000 eggs in two hours. Her egg sorting skills came in might handy playing Dutch Blitz. Oh my. She was fast and serious and she soundly outscored the rest of us on nearly every hand. She was beating us so badly she eventually started playing with her left hand. We were considering making her play with one eye closed as well, but she was so far ahead it wouldn't have made any meaningful difference. It was a lot of fun. After the game we chatted about mission aviation for a while and just enjoyed each other's company.

Nobody sits for Dutch Blitz

It was a real encouragement to spend the evening with this group of young men and women pursuing education toward Christian service on the mission field. Thank you for being part of it too, through your prayers and gifts. We couldn't host them here if it weren't for you making our ministry possible from out there. In the most real sense, you were part of the evening...you just didn't get the caloric benefit of the snickers ice cream cake!