Creating Space If there’s anything that I’m learning about myself in Asia, it’s how to create space. When you live and hang out with friends in a tag-team style alongside your roommate, you quickly discover you need time away whenever the opportunity presents itself. Even the best of relationships call for separation every so often. [...]
This week for us was definitely most interesting. We were supposed to meet with various friends throughout the week, but as I said in the last message, since it’s their vacation this week, many of our friends are out and about visiting with family back home or busy with getting jobs to pay for school [...]
Creating Space If there’s anything that I’m learning about myself in Asia, it’s how to create space. When you live and hang out with friends in a tag-team style alongside your roommate, you quickly discover you need time away whenever the opportunity presents itself. Even the best of relationships call for separation every so often. [...]
This Monday marks the C-land holiday of the Mid-Autumn Festival. It’s a traditional holiday about a great famous warrior who strikes down 9 of the 10 suns that were in the sky. After he does so, he’s rewarded with a pill that can turn him into a god or an angel, but he doesn’t want [...]
God really showed us His heart and saving power this week in GZ. It’s amazing how His Word is true. Last week a few CT leaders and I attended a church planting movement training in Singapore. The training lasted for three days, after which we as a leadership team got together and spent the next [...]
The Crucible This week we opened our homes to a wonderfully wise gentleman with a massive heart for Asia. He’s actually one of the reasons why everyone is here; he and a friend got the ball rolling over yonder. That’s right, Sonny himself took a trip to the GZ. On our day off, he eagerly [...]
I have lived in Asia for over three years now, so I am used to the attention I get while doing the most mundane, average of activities such as walking down the street, or buying a cup of coffee. I can’t tell you how many times an Asian stranger has asked to take their picture with me…I mean, I do [...]
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Well, we haven’t gotten locked out of our apartment recently, which is wonderful. We now have metal gates over our windows to prevent people from breaking in (which came up after we had to break into our own apartment). We also have a brand new 32 inch flat screen TV, which our landlord bought when [...]
Normal Life: Honeymoon is Over Talk about an extravagantly long honeymoon! But alas, the time has come: we stepped out of our honeymoon phase and into real life. The first month living in Asia came and went with us now embracing the “normalcy” of life abroad. The moment we began a conversation about our favorite [...]