The Gospel in China

This weekend, I ate lunch with a friend, Jt., who comes to our Bible study very regularly. He’s a great guy, really genuine, pretty smart and ambitious. He’s one of the few at our study that’s actually from our school. We have far more students coming from a few different universities. Strange how that’s worked […]

I’m sick now, too. Just before our leaders meeting yesterday, I started to feel kinda gross. But by the time it was done, I thought I was going to die. So I didn’t sleep much last night, too busy vomiting to get much of that. But I think my system’s just about reset now, and […]

Tonight was our first meeting at the new place. I was worried about it, because I knew some of our anchor people are out for vacation already, and it’s in a new, improved, hard-to-find location. But 56 people found it! Praise the Lord for that! I only bought 60 chairs (that’s about all that will […]

Tonight I got a haircut. Went to a really nice place in a really nice part of town. Cost me a whopping five dollars. Of course, to ensure they gave me my money’s worth, they took their sweet time. Managed to squeeze a trim into an hour. Unbelievable. My hair was honestly done after, like, […]

We are now proud two-apartment-renters! (That’s almost as good as a homeowner) We got the new place for our Bible study yesterday. Had to pay a year in advance which, though handing over that much cash is nerve-racking, excludes us from the hassle of a monthly bill. Went and bought chairs today, which won’t be […]

Tonight we went to an underground church’s Mid-Autumn Day party. Betcha didn’t know underground churches could have parties, did you? I didn’t. Anyway, one of our occasional Bible study attenders is a member of this church, so he invited us to go tonight. Curious about his church and this holiday, we obliged. Mostly students at […]

So, tomorrow is Mid-Autumn Day. Someone has to help them with their holiday-naming. It’s a big deal, though, from everything people tell me. No school break, though. In front of the shopping center by my house is a gigantic plastic moon cake. Moon cakes, though normally not gigantic or plastic, constitute the centerpiece of the […]

I read a book once that talked about how much advertising we’re exposed to everyday and how little attention we pay to it. The book’s point being that if people aren’t looking for what you’re advertising for, your advertising is worse than invisible. Invisible doesn’t cost you, ignored advertising does. I think this is a […]

Any regular calendar event stands to initially suffer from change, which is probably why change finds so little welcome in an organization. Well, we’re making two big changes in our Bible study in two weeks’ time. This week we changed our time from Thursday night to Saturday night, and next week we change locations from […]

Began a new adventure today – that of discovering what it takes to establish a business here in China. Everyone at the business bureau place is kind of surprised that I don’t even know for sure what kind of business I want to start, let alone what I want to name it. Hard to explain […]