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Everytime I sit down to write, I am amazed at how much can be fit into a month when you're doing this sort of work. We began this month with the students on break from University, so we focused on getting the new members of our team settled in, and we all attended some training on how to care for the children at the local orphanage, which we immedietely put to use by giving the orphanage a visit and meeting them for the first time.
Our compassion team focuses on caring for the orphans who are disabled in some way- and there are quite a few of them. Mental disabilities…
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It feels like a lot has happened since the last time I posted. It's been sort of an extended holiday season here in East Asia. First with Christmas- which isn't as big over here as in the States, but still draws a lot of attention from the friends we've made, since they all like being a part of American holiday celebrations- then the new years, and now recently the lunar new year celebrations, which are so big that it seems the entire area shuts down to celebrate it.
The holiday season has been good- because having so many causes for celebration gives us a lot of…
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It's been an eventful month over here in Asia. The holiday seasons present us with some great opportunities for sharing the gospel among the locals- since everyone here is always so excited to learn about American holiday traditions. After more than a month and a half of planning, we put together a large Thanksgiving outreach event for our local church, where we invited more than two hundred locals and students to come and take part in an American Thanksgiving. At the event we were able to share about the origins of Thanksgiving and why we do it (a time to come together as…
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Hello Goer Blog Readers!A few days from now will mark my sixth week of being here in Asia; which strikes me almost like a note out of tune. On the one hand, our days are kept so full here that time seems to hurtle by- there never seems to be enough day to complete even half of the things I would like. On the other hand though, it feels like I have already been here for months.Things have settled into an easy rythym, and even with my somewhat less-than-proficient bumbling at the language, it's now quite possible to communicate at a basic level with native speakers who don't know any English. I…
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I am happy to report to you that a lot has happened since my last update, and this blog post is coming to you from my placement in Asia! I am fully funded, and I have been here at the university for a week now.
My arrival was a little bumpy- the airline lost all of my baggage, so I arrived in Asia with nothing besides the clothes on my back. I'd read in Scripture that Jesus commanded the diciples to take nothing with them when He sent them- but I didn't know He actually enforced it! The airline promised to send me an email when they found my bags- but then I…
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