“Look! There one is!” someone exclaimed as we continued down the highway in a characteristically shock-less Chinese bus. I pulled away from my reading and peered out the window to my left. A tall limestone peak stood in the distance, enshrouded by a misty haze and jutting up from the gray-green plain. As we grew [...]
Sherry, Beth, Reebok, and I all made ourselves cozy in a little tea shop by the East Gate. The rain outside made everything slippery, but somehow we had all managed to make it there unscathed. We all were gathered there for a Bible study. But I wasn’t exactly sure how it would go. Things with [...]
So I went to the park to spend time with the Lord the other day and these two guys came up to me as I was reading the book and started asking me a lot of questions about where I am from and so on and so forth. Nothing special came from this time other [...]
So we were sitting outside at a tea house on a nice, sunny day at our Thursday afternoon Bible study when something happened that changed my life forever. We were talking about what we had just read when I felt something in my hair and then saw something fall on my nose and on my [...]
This past weekend I had the tremendous opportunity to visit one of the most beautiful places in Asia, and as my e-mail title suggests, I had some adventures along the way In the northwestern corner of my province there is an area titled the Tibetan Autonomous Region. Located in this region is a small city [...]
Have you ever had a garden that was infested with weeds? And no matter how hard you tried nothing got rid of them? Or maybe you planted something on purpose but decided you no longer want to see the fruit of it anymore and started to remove it from your garden and plant something new? [...]
I still feel like my head is spinning after the whirlwind week of travel we just experienced. Actually, it is literally spinning as my sinuses painfully throb in my face. Oh the fun of changing weather and sensitive sinuses. Despite this annoyance, I have a lot to be thankful for as I dwell on the [...]
I didn’t expect to meet Luky that weekend. I hadn’t really gone out of my way to see her this year. Although she was one of the very first people I met last year, I knew she wasn’t hungry for God at all. But I thought of her when I was eating a special holiday [...]
Let me tell you about one of my friends named Eliot. This guy is awesome, and every time I hang out with him I realize that what is going on here is so much bigger than my efforts. We met Eliot for the first time when a friend of ours brought him to one of [...]
Tears were filling her eyes as she revealed the deep hurt she had recently experienced. I had barely met Miranda twice before she went home for the New Year holiday. So when Dove and I met with her for the first time in over two months, I was shocked at how quickly she opened up [...]