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That is the name of the town that we travelled to on the East coast with Frank and Angelica. Have you ever been in a place where the beauty just takes your breath away? That was our experience this past weekend. It was really nice to get out of the big city. Breathing clean air has…
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Happy New Year Everyone! Our friends Angelica and Frank are here to visit us from Thailand. They came in last night and we headed downtown to watch the fireworks come off Taipei 101. They said it may be the last year they do it, so off we went. it was NUTS! There were SOOOOO…
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I am writing out of anger and passion…hopefully it comes across. Two news articles in CBC news on the web: Death toll passes 225 in Israeli offensive on Gaza UN says Zimbabwe cholera death toll over 1,500 Both of these articles were written the same day. One has under 50 comments, the other…
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On Christmas day I had a flashback. A picture flashed through my mind of sitting on a train going to south Taiwan. Last year on Christmas day we were travelling to visit a friend and do some sight seeing in Taiwan when all of a sudden for the first time I felt Cassie kick in my…
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Probably 2 weeks ago we received a number of Christmas cards in the mail. It was a great day as we delightfully opened and read each one. Some with sparkles, some with snow but every one with some words of encouragement and joy! My mom has always hung the Christmas cards around the house and…
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It is our eyes, our vision, that lets us see what is in front of us. In our lives, Ben and I try to keep our eyes on the present, while considering and planning for the future. In 2003 we went to South Africa and we saw the tremendous need in all of Africa for…
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Missionaries are often put up on pedastals, but we are just real people with struggles and problems too. I wanted to take a blog to share some of those so that you don’t get the idea that we are perfect, and so you can pray for us. Lately Ben and I have been getting stressed out about: finances, the school we are…
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This month went by SO fast! I remember thinking the first week, "How am I ever going to remember these peoples names; Gulzat, Sagan, Alibek…". But as we left on Saturday, these strange faces with strange names had become wonderful familiar friends. We were foreigners to their land but they welcomed us with hospitality and…
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9:00pm is our regular bedtime, if we make it that long! 6:00am seems to come so early. It is hard to remember back in the day when I worked for WestJet and 6 am would have been considered a ‘sleep-in’ day!This past week was jam packed with Rachel, Ben and I all teaching. I taught…
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Things are going great. Ben will be teaching on Tuesday – The Basics of Pre aching. Angela has Wednesday & Thursday – How People Learn. Our 15 students taught for the first time last week – they did great but there is still lots of room for improvement. Can’t wait to see how they’ll do…
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We are half way through our first week here. I shared yesterday and Ben did today. Both went very well! We have a great translator and the people here are amazing! They are warm-hearted and very kind – especially to Big C. We have 15 students who are all going to be travelling and teaching their own people! Ben…
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The bags are packed…well not quite! You would think after all the packing we’ve done this past year we would have it down to a science. Unfortunately..not so! We are off to Central Asia to train local believers how to teach their own people how to study the bible. It’s going to be awesome! We…
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Home. For everyone that word brings up different images and experiences, places and people and of course, emotions. For us, the simplest way to describe home is like a big sigh. Everything melts out of you as you take a few deep breaths. We just spent 10 days at home. Sigh. We got to…
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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…
