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Stella

Julie — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:19:50 +0000

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 started studying Bible stories every week. Then, one of her classmates, Amy, invited her to stay at her church for a dorm/study program after school got out and before they had to retake their college entrance exam. So, Stella was living in community with other believers for two weeks; playing, praying and studying with them. After the first week, I asked her where she was at in her faith, and she said, “Maybe in college I will become a Christian.” But, then during the second week, I get an e-mail from her saying,

“And there is a big big news I want to share with you.

I AM CHRISTIAN NOW!!!

Thank you for leading me to God.”

God is AWESOME and FAITHFUL, please keep praying for Stella and the other girls in my community!

Military high school

Julie — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 01:07:42 +0000

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 team, helping out with the camp.

The 12 from Auburn had prepared a curriculum using Bible stories about King David to teach about character, honesty, self-control, teamwork, and forgiveness. They lead about 130 10th and 11th grade guys in silly songs and games as well as told these Bible stories in English, and then acted the stories out with props. Then we had small group time where we got to know the students. Through those small group times and many other one to one conversations, many of the guys were given the opportunity to receive the gift of Salvation and go from being God’s enemy to being God’s friend. Of that group, over 30 of the students came to a new believer’s training session on the last day of the camp! Praise God! The military school’s English teacher, who originated the idea to have a mission’s team come to run an English camp is a believer and goes to my church (BCC). Hopefully she will be able to bring the guys who stay on campus during the weekend to church. Please pray for revival among the students, and for wisdom on how to start some Bible Study/worship groups on the campus!

Laundry detergent?

Julie — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:19:41 +0000

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 some more. I decided to buy the Snuggles brand because I know we have that in America, so I feel like the quality would be the same. I used the detergent for a few months until my Taiwanese roommate, Mandy, asked me one day, “Is this what you use to wash your clothes?” And I respond, “Yeah, why?” She then enlightens me that I have been using fabric softener for the last few months to wash my clothes. Wow. That is funny. I didn’t notice my clothes being any different, but last year, Rachel and I didn’t have a Taiwanese roommate, so who knows…:) Praise God for Mandy!

MN7

Julie — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:23:03 +0000

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 excited how God is going to use their energy and wisdom to stir up some things here in Southern Taiwan. Please be praying for their safety and spirits as they minister here this week.

Sweet day of ministry

Julie — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 16:18:30 +0000

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 started the day, he was not yet a believer and just had many questions about Christianity, and never seemed ready to make a decision. But early on in the day, he asked our team member, Jim what he needed to do to become a Christian, and Jim shared the prayer with him and he prayed right then while we were walking and became a brother in Christ. Jim and Hsu soon after that, got to share with another man and his family and this guy also prayed to receive Christ. It was an awesome way to start off the day. Then we found an owner of a grape farm who taught us how he grew grapes and gave us samples, etc. While the guys were off amongst the grapes, I had the opportunity to share the Evangecube with the man’s 2 daughters about age 12 and 14 who knew some English from school. After that we all hung out with the family and tasted some of their wine, as well as riding their bike and playing soccer with them. (I even gave one of the girls an English name, which I have discovered that I love doing here).

The people of DaCun were extremely welcoming to us as a tea shop owner saw us coming and decided to give all of us free tea. (Gosh, I wish that happened more often in Kaohsiung…:) So, it is exciting to see God already working in the town of DaCun and opening doors for our team member, Tim, to start up a house church there.

If you follow the link, you will see some of the last months activities as well this sweet day of ministry.

Pictures, of course:)