The community enjoyed a quiet ….
The community enjoyed a quiet Thanksgiving, with some families hosting dorm students or folks too far away from home to be with family.
The MB Christmas program will be Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. The EMB is having an evening of Christmas carols on Dec. 23. The children and youth presented a drama for the Christmas program Dec. 5.
The Lustre Christian High School basketball team participated in the BBB/GBB Glasgow invitational tournament at Glasgow Dec. 3-4 and, on Dec. 10-11, they will be participating in the BBB/ GBB Wolf Point invitational tournament. The regular games of the season begin Dec. 17 (away at Nashua) and (home against Culbertson). Both games begin at 4:30 p.m.
The LCHS/LGS Christmas concert is held at the LGS auditorium starting at 7 p.m. on Dec. 9.
In news, Roberto and Heather Atienza (nee Wall – from Lustre) are missionaries in Cebu, Philippines, where Roberto is the director of the Children’s Shelter of Cebu, located in the second largest city of the Philippines. On the afternoon/evening of Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving evening), a very large fire fanned by strong winds off the ocean burned a poor section of the city called Alaska Mambalig. Atienzas met with families on Monday, as some of their workers lived there. As of 9 p.m. Nov. 29, the total number of families affected by the fire were 1,010 with 4,170 individuals and 575 houses. The Atienzas have helped to organize a soup kitchen in the elementary school that is housing 700 families. They write, “God is so good. The Rotary Club is providing funding, the Philippines Navy Reserves are providing manpower (our family and friends will be there too) and we are providing prayer, planning and oversight.” They are cooking at Navy headquarters and bringing the rice/ chicken porridge called “pospas” in two large kalderos (pots). More reservists will be joining them to help, as their assignments permit. Alaska Mambalig is a very economically depressed area that is difficult to get in, with houses on stilts.
