Many missionaries are plagued by doubt. Not usually about the message. At...
Organizational Baggage
So there’s a foreigner that’s come to our services for the past couple of weeks. It’s been great to have him around – he’s had some mission trip experience with a great organization and is extremely willing to jump right in and serve. When he came the first week, though, he was a little confused. […]
Just When You Thought…
…it was safe to stop thinking about China… After a much-needed four month blogging sabbatical (okay, maybe not much-needed), it is time to resume fully operational updating maneuvers. It would be hard to go back and talk about all that’s happened in these four months, so suffice it to say that it’s been an amazing […]
Holiday Consolidation
The Chinese New Year Festival is underway. It’ll go on for a couple weeks. A lot of businesses will be closed the whole time. Quite a grocery shopping frenzy leading up to the day before the festival. But most of the big stores are open, as we enter the time of year where a billion […]
My Personal Halloween
Probably one of my least favorite things about being a missionary is wrestling with fear. Not that missionaries have a corner on fear – I imagine there’s no escaping this battle no matter who you are. Whenever you have a sense of God’s direction, there is always going to be an accompanying sense of fear. […]
The Good Ship Disciple
Last night was encouraging – though this season bears plenty of discouragement. Everyone is heading home for the holiday. School is out, and most of our friends are already gone. It can get pretty lonely – we’re really blessed with a good number of close friends here – not particularly fun to have them all […]
Going Nowhere, Already Arrived
Got a text message from a guy a couple days ago which ended with, “I feel lost in my life.” How’s that for a commentary on Christ-less existence? The truth is, even in the middle of the most intense period of learning of their lives, students still find themselves without an all-inclusive perspective that makes […]
Exploring His Love
Well, the semester is almost over – students are busy with exams and preparing to return home. Definitely influenced our attendance this weekend – a lot of our students have the same exams. We’re going to change our service format for the break, so it doesn’t feel like such a downer to have such a […]
Red-Headed Step-Holiday
Is there any holiday that calls our attention to the progress (or lack of it) made in life more than New Year’s? Probably because New Year’s has no other purpose other than to remind you that time is still moving in the same direction it always has – the holiday is just a marker. Other […]
Our Christmas Service
The balance of the past week was put primarily into prep for the Christmas service. Thanks to all of you who helped in prayer for this activity. We were blessed with a really tremendous evening. Our high attendance for a single service – probably high for a weekend, too – somewhere around 100 showed up. […]
Christmas Invasion
Although we’re going to have a Christmas celebration next week at church, we started our Christmas series a week early – I wanted to call it “invasion,” but the guys all tell me that the Chinese word for “invasion” can’t really have any positive connotation. It was hard to convince me (I really wanted that […]
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