Another sweet story of God’s GREAT salvation! One of my students, Stella, used to be in my upper level class at the cram school, then asked me to teach her in a one to one conversation class. Through that relationship, she then had come with me to church a couple of times and we even [...]
During the first week of July, a team from Auburn, AL came to run an English character camp at the CCAFPS (military high school about 5 minutes from the cram school that I teach at). Since I had two weeks off from teaching, I had the opportunity to spend nearly the entire week with the [...]
Hello! It has been awhile since I’ve posted on here, but I wanted to tell you all a funny story. So, I wash my own clothes here in Taiwan, and I buy my laundry detergent at the local super markets. Well, anyhow, about 4 months ago I ran out of detergent and had to buy [...]
Well, on Saturday, we had a short-term missions team from Rochester, MN join us. It is so fun to be surrounded by some of our own “locals.” There are 3 pastors, 1 wife, 2 college students and 1 high school student on the team. They are definitely a breath of fresh air and we are [...]
So, today was a pretty sweet day of ministry. There were a total of 9 of us who spent the day in a town called DaCun to prayer walk, meet people, and share the Gospel. The first sweet thing that happened was with one of our Taiwanese friends, Hsu, who came to help translate for us. When Hsu [...]
Rachel and I had the opportunity to spend Saturday night and all day Sunday with one of the families on our ministry team. The Minnich’s have 3 very active boys around the ages of 2, 6, and 8. And the reason that we spent the night with them was because their dad was out of [...]
Yes. We do have some opportunities to play sports here in Taiwan. And that is a wonderful thing! On Sunday afternoons there is a group of both foreigners and Taiwanese who meet inside of a junior high track to play some Ultimate Frisbee. Lately there has been a group of about 20 or so there. [...]
So, today, we had the opportunity to hangout with a group of about 52 college students who are English majors at a local University. They were on a weekend retreat and we simply joined them for one day of their activities. Rachel and I got to lead and be judges for of an activity that [...]
Yes. There continue to be things that remind me that I am in another country. We have annihilated THREE cockroaches in our dining room area in the last 2 weeks. Can I just say…ewwww. We have not even been leaving food remnants out and we generally do our dishes daily…but lo and behold, the roaches still [...]
Well, it is true. I had my first class of my own tonight. I found out at 3:30pm that I would be teaching the class at 5pm. It is kind of just they way things work around here. It went fine. You really just have to be flexible in that kids are in and out. [...]
