Missions Fest

Last week our school had our missions fest. We were encouraged to dress in traditional or native clothes during the 3 day event. Being that I dress traditionally American everyday, jeans, T-shirt and flip flops, I decided to wear my Nigerian clothes.

Here's the Nigerian couple. Fortunately we live close to the school because we sure caused more a riot than normal walking down the street in these duds.

I don't know what we're laughing about, but I loved this girl's wig. It's hard to tell from the picture but it's a wig of small braided hair. I need one.

Quite the international group here. The girl in the middle in the purple clothes is our Mongolian neighbor. Her outfit was beautiful. The girl standing next to me is from the southern Philippines and has a heart to reach out to Muslims. You can't see her very well but the green outfit is an Indian sari. I was jealous of her outfit and have decided I must have a sari.

The Community Development department set up a table educating people about the moringa tree. Here in the Philippines it's called mallungay. It's quite an amazing tree; it's even called the miracle tree because of all it's nutrients and uses. We gave out cups of mallungay tea and I made some mallugay bread.

I used a recipe for spinach bread and then cut it into bite size pieces for everybody to try. It turned out pretty well and people enjoyed tasting it.