Probably the last post here until I get back to the States.

---Presenting the Gospel to my Wednesday night kids went well. Thank God for providing such a wonderful Christian with amazing English to help with translating. Joy, you rock! Nobody prayed that night, but they listened very carefully and took it seriously. Pray for those seeds that were planted.

---The trip to 秀才 was wonderful and heart breaking at the same time. It's really impossible to describe the way those kids tug at your heart. Rita, one of my good friends, had covered her entire left arm in knife cuts. Lots of the kids there have scars from cutting themself (or some of them even seem to be the remains of suicide attempts). Please keep those kids in your prayers. They have been dealt a REALLY hard hand in life and need the renewing power of Christ in such a desperate way.

---Pray for summer camps. I'll be leading camps, which I've never done before. Pray that God will make everything go smoothly.

---Pray for me. I'll be coming back in Kinmen in about two weeks to do a week of camp here. Then I'll be leaving. It's really, really, really hard to leave. I love this place, I love these people and I don't want to leave. :(

Love y'all!

---Pray for my high school class tonight. Joy and I are going to be presenting the gospel to them.

---Pray for the 9th graders at 秀才. I'll be going to see them for graduation next week and hope to have a chance to talk to them about the Gospel.

---Pray for Douglas, who is having a lot of pressure from his family to leave the faith. I'm hoping to meet up with him while in Taiwan next week and encourage him to stay strong.

Good afternoon. I have a very BIG PRAISE! I have gotten a full ride scholarship at RSU. It totally covers tuition, fees and books.

---My mom's visit was also a very big praise. We had a very, very good time together. Thank God that all the flights went well and there the worst thing was a bloody nose mom got on the plane.

---The church finally got the go ahead to tear down the termite eaten parsonage! That is a very, very big praise!

---Keep praying for Douglas. We saw him in Taipie last weekend. He has a lot of questions about what things a Christian should and shouldn't do. I told him to remember that he has freedom in Christ an to focus on his relationship with him. Then everything else will fall into place.

---Pray for Hans, a junior at the college. He's very, very interested in spiritual things and is close to trusting Christ. Right now he is reading "Mere Christianity" to practice his English...pray that God would use that book to reach him.

---I really am grateful for you guys praying for my Chinese! I've recently been told that it's improved a good deal and I know that it's all God's doing!

---We're already halfway through with the semester! I am starting to feel the time crunch...pray that I will redeem the time.

Love y'all!

'Ello there. It's freezing here, and I have a cold to top it off. Whee. What fun.


---Thailand was amazing. One of the best parts of the trip was going street preaching with Isaac and some of his friends. I only actually preached once, but it was still really cool.

---Pray for a 6th grade girl named Cindy who lives in Nantou. She is a student of my friend Daniel. Last week her parents broke up and her Dad took her (illegally) somewhere down in southern Taiwan. Now the police have brought her back home, but she is really afraid of her father. Just keep her in your prayers and pray for Daniel to know how he can best bless this girl.

---Pray for Johnson, a 7th grader living here at the dorm. Johnson has been getting in a lot of trouble ever since he came to the dorm. He's now been accused of stealing from his roommate. Talk is that he might even be sent to a juvenile home or something.

---My Mom is coming in less than two weeks! I can barely stand it!

---Pray that I get over this cold.

---Pray for our teams relationship with Carta, another English teacher living here at the dorm. He's rather difficult to get along with.

Ok, sorry it's been so long since I updated, but we've been doing winter camps and have been VERY busy.

---Send up a big thank you for camps. They were awesome. My team at the 中正 was awesome. 16 kids was a kinda big team, but it still went awesome. Then the camp at 永樂 was amazing. Some totally awesome kids. And hanging out with the Nantou team was really fun.

---Pray for Ed and Lena. Ed is in Taiwan in college and Lena is in her final year at the high school. Both are under a lot of pressure and feel like there is no purpose to their life.

---We're starting the spring semester of teaching tomorrow. Pray for the team as we head back to school.

---Early next month we're making a five day visa run to Thailand. We are really, really excited about going and seeing Isaac, a guy who used to work for King Car and is now in Thailand working as a full time missonary. Pray for safety as we travel.

---Keep praying for Riddick. He has been doing better and it seems he isn't under such dark spiritual oppression right now, but he still really needs Christ.

---I've applied for a scholarship at RSU that would cover tuition, books and fees. Friday night I had an interview with the head of the program. I should know in a few weeks if I made it or now...pray that I get it.

Ok, I'm off to take a shower and get to bed. 'Night, God bless y'all!

Hey there people. And happy new year! Thursday we finished our first camp and Wednesday we are leaving for central Taiwan for our second one.

Camp was totally awesome. One of the best I've ever had. I taught team E (the highest level group) and we had a hoot together. I had 15 kids from 3rd to 6th grade. I had one 3rd grader from Taipei...dude, one of these days I'm going to have to spend a week in a school there or something...how on earth do they teach them that much English? (Guess it probably has something to do with the fact that kids here only get two 40 minute English classes a week...not really enough to actually learn anything).

---Pray for Lucy, our hair stylist friend. She's making some difficult decisions and really needs Christ at this point.

---My Mom is coming to visit me in March! I'm so happy I could explode! Pray that her preparations for the trip go well.

---Pray for the upcoming camp. Pray that the kids and TA's would see God's light shining through us.

---Pray for Hans, a college student at the local college and one of our TA's. He's been showing a lot of interest in spiritual things and has been ready "Mere Christianity" lately.

That's all for today. Love you guys!

Hey there people! The semester is over and camps are starting tomorrow. I can't believe how fast things have flow past. In only 4 days I will have been here in Taiwan for a year. So I guess it would be good to use this post as a chance to look back on what God has done in my first year in Taiwan.

---Jack came to the Lord. Jack was TA at winter camps last year. Although I didn't get to know him all that well during winter camps, we all prayed for the TA's a lot during those camps. I didn't hear anything about Jack for about 5 months. Then, when it came time for summer camps, Jack was my TA. He had been saved for about 2 months at the time and was truly on fire for God. The Bible tells us that by their fruits we shall know them and I could certainly see the fruit in Jack's life.

---Douglas came to the Lord. Douglas was a high school student who hung out with our team a lot last semester. Jack actually had a lot of impact on Douglas as well: during summer camps me and Douglas and Jack roomed together and Douglas was very impressed with how real Jack's walk was. When we came back to Kinmen for the fall semester, Douglas told us that he had trusted Christ during summer camps, but had been too afraid to tell everybody about it. God has done an amazing work in his life since then. He's actively witnessing to his friends and has a huge hunger for the knowledge of God.

---God put me in elem. school. This one is hard to list as a praise. I really would much rather be teaching Jr. High. But God has taught me a lot of things by taking me out of my comfort zone.

---My Dad was able to come out and help in the ministry. His visit was a really blessing to our team, because rather than just coming to look at the sites, see us, and then leave, Dad came and did everything he could to help as we fight for people's souls. Dad was able to help Douglas answer several questions he had about our faith.

---God gave us the ministry at 秀才 Jr. High. This was something totally unexpected. Just before thanksgiving the three KingCar teams went to Taow Ywen (how do you spell that in Pinyin, anyway?) to do a few days of teaching in the schools there. While there, we were hosted in a dorm at 秀才. 秀才 is a school for students who come from broken families and, as Sandy put it, "They like to start the fight or use the knife to cut self." In just the few days that we stayed there God really open these kids hearts to use. Over new years the Kinmen and Nantou teams went back and spent a day with them. Right now I'm trying to plan another trip to Taiwan to visit them again. (BTW, Mom, I've told them I'll be taking you to visit them when you get here).

---God has brought new people to the English Bible study. Last semester our Bible study was almost entirely high school seniors, so of course they are now gone and at college. I kinda wondered if anybody would come to Bible study....but God has brought some really neat new friends.

---God has blessed my Chinese. I've asked you guys a lot of times to pray for my Chinese. And while I still have a long (a VERY LONG) way to go, looking back over this past year, I can see that God really has blessed my learning. Last night some of my 9th grade friends from 秀才 called me and we carried on an entire conversation in Chinese, all over the phone. Cool, no?

---God just continues to be amazing. This past year I have seen his faithfulness over and over again. He is our rock: he is always there. Even when I turn from him, he does not move. He is always there to run to, he is always there to help, he is always there to comfort and his love never ceases. And when I cry over the bondage my friends are in, I know his tears are greater. When I rejoice over a new brother in Christ, I know his shouts are louder.