Rachel on August 6th, 2007

Tonight was my first day back to teaching after having 2 weeks off during which I traveled to Japan and China. The trip was really amazing. Some of the highlites include climbing Mt. Fuji, walking on the Great Wall, and riding some camels! Earlier today I struggled with motivation to get back into teacher mode, [...]

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Rachel on March 21st, 2007

This short letter was included in a Newsletter update sent out from our Strategy Coordinators (Mike and Carolyn). I really liked what D shares. I definitely identify with the thoughts and heart behind her words. D serves with her husband as Strategy Coordinators with the Hakka Harvest ministry here in Taiwan. The Hakka number around [...]

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Rachel on February 1st, 2007

Rachel shares how God is working on her heart! Enjoy!

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Rachel on January 24th, 2007

Today was Julie and I’s Chinese teacher’s birthday. The first term (3 months) of Chinese we had 2 different teachers, but then when we started our second term of study we specifically requested only one of those. Not that we didn’t like them both, but we really got along with and really learned better from [...]

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Rachel on December 5th, 2006

Just this past friday Julie and I started our first seeker study with Eva, Mink and 3 of their classmates. We met Eva at the University English club event we attended a couple months ago (See: A day with University students) Ever since then we have have enjoyed getting to know her and her friend [...]

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Rachel on November 20th, 2006

Here are a couple pictures and a video from the past couple weeks. The video is from the weekend Julie shared about in her last post. It shows a fun game Caleb (the youngest of the 3 Minnich boys) liked to play with me after he figured out that he could fit perfectly through my [...]

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Rachel on October 13th, 2006

This last weekend Julie, Eric and I all had a 5 day weekend off of work and language study due to Moon Festival (10/6) and their independence day (10/10). We used the long weekend to travel with the rest of our ministry team to a place called Kenting, which is a vacationing spot in the southernmost tip [...]

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Rachel on October 1st, 2006

This last saturday Julie and I were invited to attend the wedding of a christian Tawainese couple. We were very excited to see what that would look like and to experience the cultural aspect of it. The ceremony was on the smaller side- I would guess about 80 people. It took place in a beautiful, [...]

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Rachel on September 12th, 2006

This past saturday Julie and I had the chance to go on an all day road trip to some nearby mountains about 2 hours away called Mao Lin. The mountains were beautiful, and it was so great to breathe such fresh clean air. There were 11 of us that went along for the adventure(we rented a [...]

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Rachel on September 5th, 2006

As Julie stated in her last post, I have been teaching for about 2 and a half weeks now. Overall, it’s been harder than it has been easier. Thats not to say I haven’t enjoyed it in moments, but I’m pretty sure (at this point anyways), that teaching is not my passion or my greatest [...]

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