Updates
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Well I’ll start off by saying Hi, my name is Carter Chavez and I am Ben’s cousin. God has allowed me the amazing opportunity to come over to Taiwan and serve with Ben and Ang. It’s been really cool to come over here and see how God is using them to further his Kingdom. They…
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It was such a pleasure to go and teach in the Philippines two weeks back! I had two full mornings to teach through Joshua. It was probably more a treasure for me as I watched Joshua conquer the land that God had given the Israelites. In a similar way, we are praying about our future…
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As I was walking home today from our office I contemplated this blog. What am I going to write about? I need to write…but????? So I decided to give you some glimpses of my walk home. First I saw an old man on a scooter getting ready to park. He stopped the scooter, moved a sandbag that he…
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For those who are praying for my mom, I just wanted to let you all know that she is back at home and still just waiting on more tests. But she is feeling okay and glad to be at home. Please keep praying for her, my dad and the whole family as we play the waiting…
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God has said, Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.?? 6?So we say with confidence, The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid… Heb 13:5-6 (Also found in: Deut 31:6,8; Jos 1:5) This is true, I have found this to be very true the past few days in…
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As we flew into the Ukraine I looked around at all the people. After observing the size of their noses I said to Ben ‘these are my people’ :) This was the last stop on our trip to Europe. It was really exciting to see all that is happening in the largest country in Europe! We…
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Question and Answer with the ABC Family Q: What was your impressions of Sweden? A: Wow! Did we just fly into Lake of the Woods? What a gorgeous place. YWAM has a large campus (over 50 acres) with Trees, Horses, Flowers and many buildings. It is a 5 minute walk from a salt water…
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This is my first time in Europe (besides the one day I left the airport in England). What an amazing place. In Germany I was impressed with these beautiful small villages where all the houses have red roofs and are encircled by farm fields that look like patchwork. Here in England the brick homes that line…
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We’re in rural Bavaria. The people are friendly, the homes well cared for and the gardens tended. This week we’ve had a lot of meetings. Usually meetings tend to be pretty much the same no matter what you’re doing. But this time it was a little different. The nature of our department is that we…
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Blue Forty -Two! Blue Forty-Two! Hut Hut Hut!!! Okay, well, maybe we aren’t football coaches per se… But our lives are similar in a way. We have an on season, and we have an off season. But do coaches stop working in the off season? No way! Well, neither do we. Our to-do list…
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The book is called ‘The Reason for God, Belief in an Age of Skepticism’ by Timothy Keller. It’s divided into 2 parts: 7 doubts that people have about Christianity & 7 reasons for faith. You know for years I’ve looked for a book like this. Because often in my heart and my mind I’m divided.…
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So you are sitting in the little restaurant wanting to order something yummy, but there is a problem. The problem is that you can’t read the menu- you can’t even sound out the words because there are no words, only chinese characters. After a year and half of living here this is still a…
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Our friend Jay, a conscientious earth-dweller, recommended this site. It’s got a good message – that our consumption driven life is a one-way street with a dead-end. If you open the webpage http://www.storyofstuff.com and hit the play button, a 20 minute movie will play – its definitely worth a watch. The host is well-spoken and the…
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We are back. Back from where you ask? From a beautiful wedding in the Dominican Republic! Two people very special to me were married-My brother Kevin and my new sister-in-law Tanya. It was a beautiful wedding on a perfect tropical Day with lots of fun dancing, great food and friends! I’m so glad I went-…
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It’s just a book. The cover has got a nice picture and looks ok. It’s been a New York Times Bestseller – but a lot of books carry that title. Really, what’s all the fuss about then? One man. He failed to climb the mountain. Almost died on his way down. Really, what’s all the fuss…
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We had a great final week with our friends in Indonesia! We finished our final week with a graduation for over 50 people, including many local pastors. It was a truly joyful occasion, both for us but far more so for our students! Early Saturday morning we took flight for Jakarta and then finally Taipei…
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Ezra 7.10 says that Ezra set his heart to study the law, to do it and to teach others. For these past seven weeks we’ve been training our 25 students how to study the Bible and also challenging them to live it out in their lives. This next week is our last week here and…
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Every week we sit down to write our blog (since we can only write on saturdays) and it is so hard to know what to write about. Do we talk about the students the past week…our teachers we are discipling…what we personally are learning…? It is so hard to decide. So let’s do 5…
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We were told we would have to fly to Kota Kinabalu (K.K for short) to get our new visas for Indonesia. We were given 30 days when we landed in Indonesia, but in order to stay for the second month we had to leave the country, apply at the embassy in Malaysia for another 30 day visa, and then come…
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We’ve made it through the first month of our mini-SBS. On Friday we gave or students a New Testament test. As I lied in my bed the night before the test I could hear all the students repeating outloud the main ideas of the books we have studied, the dates of the New Testament, and…
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