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Right now I am sitting on the lanai overlooking the ocean thinking about just how amazing God has been to me. After being out of a 1st world country for a year (Taiwan is pretty good but you still can’t flush the toilet paper) Hawaii is such a blessing, plus being able to see my…
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It’s true. Today is the final day that Typhoon JANGMI will be blasting our island. We couldn’t be happier considering the fact that we will be flying out in two days . A few weeks ago we flew in during a typhoon and it was really scary. We aren’t ready for that experience again anytime soon. The…
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Yesterday we went for coffee with our great friends Brett, Alison and Lana. They are Taiwanese and we always have such a good time with them. We looked over Alison’s pictures because she recently got back from San Diego. She went there for a month to study English. Ben and I reflected as we walked…
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I picked up the bottle of Coke and had this incredible urge to shake it…to shake it really hard! Just to clarify, debriefing is not removing one’s briefs but rather releasing the emotions and stress involved in cross-cultural experiences (and you don’t have to leave your city to have one of these). Similar to opening the…
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We have had an amazing week with lots of teaching! We’ve been at the YWAM base here in Erdenet, Mongolia. Robbie taught the first two days in the bible class (SBS) on the book of Titus, and then Ariel followed with teaching Ephesians for the rest of the week. Nate (with a little help from…
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Our alarm clock wakes up our team every morning. Bright and early we have prayer and preaching time. In Korea every church has morning prayer, some as early as 4:00am for those who work at 6:00am. If you speak to a Korean, they couldn’t imagine their church without morning prayer. Well, for us Westerners, getting…
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That is what we were told to expect in Bain Boral, the little village we have been serving in this past week. It was an extremely beautiful place, it reminded me a lot of British Columbia. We actually were teaching three churches this week, one a short 30 minute walk from the main church, and…
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Sand whipping around our bodies we realized we were experiencing a sandstorm. We’ve been in the middle of the Gobi desert for the past week. There is a little tiny town here because of a nearby coal mine. Most everyone in the town works at the mine. There is a small church here planted…
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There is so much I could write about from our time in Kota Kinabalu Malaysia but I’ll just tell one story for now. This week we have been teaching the book of Ephesians. Since it is a book about the unity of the church we had a building theme going from the first day.…
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A few months ago I wrote about perspective. I’m reminded again today of the same topic. Why you ask? Well, thanks for asking, let me tell you. (disclaimer- sorry boys for the awkwardness of the topic) I woke up with my left chest feeling very sore. I thought maybe it is just because I need…
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This last week I had my birthday. Angela had two surprises up her sleeve. She sent out an email to about a million people asking for a few special words to be emailed so that when I woke up on my birthday I would be surprised… and surprised I was! Thank you all SO much for writing…
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A short video of clips from our Titus Project Training time is loading down the page, don’t forget to scroll down and watch.
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We’ve got our laptop back… So new photos from the training time earlier in July! Please enjoy. I guess I should give a little overview. The pictures highlight 3 things from training time. The teachings we give, how to prepare a lecture, how to present it, learning styles, Bible overview, teamwork. Second, we give time…
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We’ve been facing a dilemna, there is so much going on in our life we just aren’t sure what you are interested in reading about. We know our parents love to hear about their granddaughter…our friends and supporters want to know what we are doing here… and most people want to know about both! So we have come…
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Our blog is interesting because we have so many different topics to cover: ministry, baby, us, and every once in a while we don’t cover anything, just put up funny things to make you laugh. Well, today I got a cute email that I was laughing at, but really only because I am from Winnipeg. So…
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Today I think I will give you a little glimpse into my heart. About a week ago Ben and I were at a big group gathering when Cassie started to really cry (her little digestive system is still growing and sometimes she gets bad gas). She was crying really loud so Ben took her…
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Nearly 3 weeks ago a team of 17 people were greeted at the airport by myself and a few friends. For us it was the beginning of training them ‘how to teach’. For them it was the beginning of outreach, two to three months of living away from family, friends and most modern conveniences. Their…
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This weekend is Mongolia’s National Holiday commemorating its declaration of freedom as its own country. The festival is called Naadam and is known for its 3 main activities – horse racing, archery and wrestling. But no, I don’t want to get into the history…I just want to give you a glimpse into their world. …
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We have 17 amazing students who are excited to learn to teach and to go and train people how to study the bible! We have had a lot of fun getting to know them! I can tell we will be sending some awesome teams to Mongolia, Ch**a and Kyrgestan in 2 weeks from now. So…
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Our thoughts tend to be consumed by this beautiful bundle of love. So when I read this story I couldn’t help but think of Cassie: An old woman came into her doctor’s office and confessed to an embarrassing problem. "I do that all the time, Doctor Johnson, but they’re soundless, and they have no…
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