The Gospel in China

After a couple weekends back, it’s safe to say that we’ve lost a good number of regular attenders in the move to the new building. Strange, really. Hardly what we expected. The new building is closer to the campus than the old one. But I can think of at least several reasons why we still […]

Yeah, I really do. Last night a student told my wife about a store in town that supposedly had a great selection of bulk item and imported goods. “Imported goods” was one of the first phrases we learned when we got to China. The Chinese and American cuisine are about as far apart as the […]

It seems our stocks are down. One of the interesting things that we’re dealing with now is an apparent decrease in the perceived value of our church in the eyes of the average student. Fancy way of saying, the average person that visits isn’t nearly as impressed as they used to be. Not that we’re […]

First few days back in China. I apologize for the long silence – hard to write consistently about China when you’re not there. Our six weeks in America really flew by – had the opportunity to go to several of our supporting churches to report on our first year in China. It was stunning how […]

We have arrived in the States and are already really missing China. Definitely feel out of place. It’s amazing how fast you can lay roots in a place – how fast you can build a comfort zone, even in the most foreign of environments. My wife and I have been in China now for almost […]

Last day in China before flying back to the States for six weeks. I know that I’ve written next to nothing in the past couple weeks, so I’ll try to fill in the blanks since our last post. We chose a building for the church – on the third floor of a commercial plaza. Seems […]

We’ve had some visitors with us this week, so my blog has been a little short of up-to-date. Spent the better part of the week with the guys traipsing the streets looking for any available rental space. This is our first time renting any kind of commercial space, so we did our best to get […]

Super busy week. We’ve got about twelve days or so before we’re flying back to the States. And there’s tons to do before we go. This will be a six week trip, our first time back in the States since we landed here in China almost a year and a half ago. After our services […]

Interesting experience yesterday. Me and S. were out looking for a new house – more accurately, looking for a new realtor. Trying to stick close to the area around the house that we’ve got now, as the area has been very convenient for three nearby campuses. So we were about a kilometer or so from […]

I don’t know how it’s done in America, so I can’t say that it’s just a China problem – but I felt for immigrants this week. Our visas expired last week, so this week we’ve been trying to get new ones. First of all, because our visas expired before we got new ones (completely my […]