The Gospel in China

The second girls Bible study and a couple girls from the first spent about seven hours at the Bible study house today. After their weekly Bible study, my wife taught them how to crochet, and they spent the next six hours making scarves. This is part of some big Christmas project they’re working on for […]

Me and St. were talking today about the end of the semester and upcoming tests. He has said that he wants to quit next semester and study to become a pastor full-time. He’s working toward that, anyway, while continuing to study engineering. He started laughing about the tests, though, and told me that he’d probably […]

Last night after I finished writing in my blog, I tried to find my cell phone and go to bed. But my cell phone was nowhere to be found. So I tried to call it from the house phone and some Chinese guy answered the phone. I was lucky enough to leave it in a […]

Jealous. Scared. Desperate. That’s about how I feel lately when I spend time with our leaders. Several of them have grown enough in their faith to sense the real need to be in church. So they go to churches. All kinds of them. As I’ve said, one ends up in a Jehovah’s Witness study. They […]

Hot crowd tonight. Wow. That was rough. Big first service, and they were feisty. 79 altogether tonight. I did a quick introduction and kicked it over to St., who decided to teach about sin. Unfortunately for him, he tried to fit about forty minutes of teaching on sin and salvation into ten minutes. Which leads […]

There’s a reason that Thanksgiving is an American holiday. I mean, besides the fact that it started here. (Man, way to bomb my opening line…) If you want to really learn about being thankful, spend a couple Thanksgivings in some other places in the world. I don’t know what it is about this holiday, but […]

I’m about all Thanksgiving-ed out, and it’s still the day before. We had a party for the members of our leaders meeting tonight at our house, and I guess about 15 or 16 were able to come. Two of those were friends of a leader that asked us if they could bring them along. My […]

So Saturday, my old naysaying friend reappears at our Bible study. It’s funny – we’ve only had to deal with a surprisingly few people with this particular character trait, but it only takes one to put your world into perspective. It must get tiring to be a one-man rainstorm, but he’s pretty consistent. Again, he’s […]

E., a girl that has been coming to our Bible study recently, was invited by D., one of our leaders to come to the Bible study house sometime and talk about some questions she’s had about the Bible. This girl usually approaches me with a couple Bible questions each week. Well, some of their wires […]

Another Bible study past. It’s really amazing to see how clear the barrier of your own ability can be. Like I said last week, our number of first-time visitors has decreased, and it’s exciting to see a lot of familiar faces every week. My wife told me something tonight after our Bible study, and it’s […]