Damien and Oliver

As some of you may know, I’m staying with a Taiwanese family here in Taiwan, who are members of the church I’m working at. I wanted to introduce you to Damien and Oliver. They are in their last year of Elementary School and are preparing for Junior High. I don’t get to [...]

Easter

Sorry this is a little bit late, but I wanted to share a picture with you from Easter. This is a picture of the kids after the Easter egg hunt. We actually picked up a few new kids at the hunt site who were finding the eggs and eating the candy inside before we [...]

Buh Puh Muh Fuh

No I’m not cussing at you. This is what I have spent time learning during my first couple weeks of language school. I think I can best describe this as the “alphabet of sounds” that are used to form words in Chinese. “Buh, puh, muh, fuh” are the first four sounds of [...]

Prayer Update 3-17-08

Chinese is hard…
I’m confident that with all the time I’m devoting to learning this language, that it will eventually come, but my first impression of the language is that it is very complicated. But I am excited about the prospects of one day being able to communicate effectively. Until then, this will be [...]

February Newsletter

Here’s my newsletter for February!  I don’t know exactly what will happen when you get this, if it will direct you to my blog or not, but you might have to click on the title again (February Newsletter), and it will take you to the same post, but will allow you to click on the [...]

Prayer Update 3-6-08

Thank you so much for continuing to remember me in your prayers. I’ve been here nearly a week now and, so far, the adjustments haven’t been too difficult. I didn’t struggle too much with jet lag; maybe the first couple of days. It has been great spending time learning about some of [...]

I Made It

I arrived in Taiwan Friday night at 9pm (8am Indiana time). From the airport I purchased a bus ticket, which wasn’t as nerve-wracking as I expected it to be, and hopped on my bus for Taichung. My team leader, David Atkin, gave me really good instructions on how to do all of this. [...]