Malaysian feast

 

Our discipleship team is at Seth Barnes house for training camp preparing us for Swaziland. This week is full of things unexpected. We have a few people coming along side of Seth to help with training camp.

Yesterday we woke up not knowing what the day would look like. Kevin, Sarah, Tim and Erin had much up their sleeves.
  We were all very nervous but the day was absolutely amazing. They took us to Penang Malaysian Restaurant to experience the Asian culture.

Afterwards they took us to a Farmer’s Market culture where food labels and people were all foreign.
  Our discipleship team was split up into 3 teams and had to find someone to ask for recipes from their culture and prepare a three course meal. Each team either had to prepare a meal from land, sky, or sea.
Erin, Sarah and I had land.
 

  Erin spotted an Asian lady who took the food we had in our hands and said “that is no good” and gave us a wonderful recipe for appetizer and our main dish.
Our main dish was wonderful vegetarian spring rolls and a unique soup called “Yuki Kuki” for our appetizer. We told the lady we met that we were in a contest and we needed her help, we felt like we really bonded with her, so we took a picture with her.
 

Later I showed Heather our picture and She said those were the people that said “no help”. We had loyal help.
We all rushed back home to prepare our meals. It was so much fun! Especially for me, a Mississippi girl who has barely even prepared macaroni and cheese, and now was preparing a meal for 14 people from the Asian culture.
It was so wonderful to come together in community and to share our meal. Oh and not to boast too much, I must say that our team was voted the best main dish, however everyone did wonderful!

 I believe our team really is meshed so wonderfully together. It is obvious that God is knitting our team together with this own hand. We can change straight from American culture into total different surroundings within minutes and flow perfectly together. I give God all the glory for this team he has blessed me with!