How many of us hate being inconvenienced? I know I do. Sometimes I don’t mind so much, but there are other days when even the slightest inconvenience can turn a good day into a bad day. Like, for example, today. Next to my apartment building the city is constructing a new complex of high-rise and [...]
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In HB you have to get out and see the sites before the temperature dips. That is exactly what my team and I did a few weeks ago during our 10-day vacation from school. Unlike most visitors to HB, we didn’t go to the walking street, St. Sophia’s Cathedral, or even the Amusement Park. Instead [...]
Wow! It’s already late in the evening, but I couldn’t go to sleep before I wrote to tell you about the amazing evening I had! Tonight I went with my friend Gaby to the fellowship she had told me about a few weeks earlier. She said it was run by some Americans, but attended mostly by [...]
Since I first arrived back in Asia, I feel like so many things have been completely different from how they were my first couple of years here. The food is different, the way the city works is different, my focus for the year is different, even the nationality of the majority of foreigners is different. [...]
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“So I think that I am starting to believe that God is real, because when I talk to Him, I really feel like He is listening to me and that He answers me when I talk to Him.” It took everything I had in me not to reach across the table in the crowded restaurant, [...]
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 [...]
As a foreigner in Asia I get a lot of attention, especially on my street where white people are about as rare as a solar eclipse. Sometimes this quasi-celebrity status can wear on me, especially when random people run up and want to take 1…or 10 pictures with them. However, it also has its advantages, [...]
This week has been an exciting one here in K-Town! After nearly 2 months without seeing most of our friends, the majority have returned from their homes scattered all over the country to begin the second semester. It has been a really special time of reconnecting with old friends, but there is also a new [...]
Many times in my life the Lord has taught me that even in life’s most difficult circumstances, His love can still shine through. This truth proved itself again this week, not only in my life, but also in the life of one of my Chinese friends, J. On Monday I received an e-mail from J, [...]
A couple of weeks ago I flew to sunny Thailand for two reasons: 1) for some greatly needed rest and relaxation 2) to participate in a retreat organized by fellow CT workers designed to refocus us and cast vision for the future. It was a truly amazing time! I really heard the Lord speak a [...]
