The Gospel in China

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 […]

Looks like the worst part of the summer slump is over. Some of our closest members have made their return and were with us in services this weekend. Plus a really solid group of visitors – a lot of guys. The Lord has been blessing us so immensely in this area – He has brought […]

Got one of those phone calls today. The ones that cost you lots of time, money, and stress. Home owner of our first place calling to remind us that next month our one year rent is due… oh yeah, and they want to raise the price by fifty percent. Which is pretty much a nice […]

Still looking for ways to capitalize on a smaller summer audience. So Sunday night we tried to change up the second service a little bit. Since the people that stay on board in the summer tend to be the more faithful, we have higher repeat-attendance percentage – they like to stay for the other services. […]