Oktoberfest - Port Orford & Operation Christmas Child at our Church

When we first moved here...we opened up a bank account locally and they were selling tickets for the upcoming Oktoberfest here in town! It would be held at the local Community Center and given by the Rotary Club!  

They had some gift baskets to auction off....

Well of course we will buy some tickets to attend this!  

 

We had a good dinner....Bratwurst, and saurkraut, and red cabbage and delicious potatoes and a pretzel too! 

It was a fun gathering with the locals and we enjoyed meeting and making some acquaintances too...!  It was a good turn out!  Lots of friendly people...out for a Saturday evening in Port Orford! 

We invited our new friend "Mark" to join us!  Mark's last name is Koehn and if that isn't a Germany name like ours...well we just had to come to this with those last names .....Right?  You Betcha! 

"SAY Cheese"...you guys!

 Hey we made the local newspaper....yes there we are - can you find us in the picture...enjoying Oktoberfest in Port Orford!  

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Operation Christmas Child...a wonderful outreach to children in foreign lands!

Franklin Graham ministries called Samaritan Purse does a wonderful outreach to children:
take a shoe box - filling it with goodies for a child...and then they will be collected and brought together to be sent to South Carolina and there crated in large boxes to be sent to so many different places all over the world!

I have been involved with this outreach for some years and to see the JOY of the children receiving them in Africa, Asia, China....is such a blessing!

Shoe Box - see Link

                         I made a presentation board to display and encourage people to take a BOX!

                                   There's 150 boxes to fill...."Do you want one too to fill?"
We folded the boxes and stacked them up on the church podium! 

Nick did a box for a boy and I filled one for a girl!  So' Fun to do and the knowing someone will received it in China, Africa,

Oh gosh - just had to share with you....we got a knock on the door and our friend "Mark" gave us FRESH salmon just caught yesterday on the Coquille River...oh my goodness was that ever 

d-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s  !!!! Like butter - so flaky and tender...

YUMMY!!!

Now that couldn't be any fresher then that...out of the ocean and right unto our dinner plate!

We are Spoiled here in Port Orford!