The first Thanksgiving in U.S. history was a three-day event to mark the end of the harvest and was held some time from late-September to mid-November in 1621. This celebration featured games, military exercises, diplomacy, and, of course, feasting, and was attended by early settlers of Plymouth Colony (in what is now Massachusetts) and members of the Wampanoag tribe of Native Americans. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared the fourth Thursday of November to be a national holiday of Thanksgiving, which we in the U.S. still celebrate to this day. Some other countries also celebrate a national Thanksgiving holiday, although not all on the same date. In the U.S., its significance remains

By The W* Family, Missionaries to Eastern Europe We want to take a moment to sincerely thank you for all your support during our 4-year term as missionaries to New York City and Eastern Europe. We are keenly aware that without your encouragement, prayers, and financial support, we would not have been able to embark on an adventure of a lifetime. We were blessed to learn and implement incredible church planting strategies while working in the Bronx. After that, because of your continued belief in what God does through simple people like us, you sent us on to Eastern Europe. There we saw how God used the strategies of disciple making we learned in New York to get us into the unreached people’s