This morning I was driving Fran to her BSF Class workshop. She was taking some goodies for lunch – so it would be easier for her if I dropped her off near the front door of the church while on my way downtown.
As we are riding along, suddenly she burst out laughing. She said I should have seen what she just saw.
Each day in America there must be hundreds of thousands of workers who go out to their Chevy with a Thermos of coffee for the ride into work. Right? Well, this morning we saw the Taiwanese counterpart to that American worker -
instead of a Thermos of coffee in the Chevy . . . . .
it’s a pot of tea on the motorbike.
Those actions follow a crackdown on unauthorized religious activity ordered July 5 as part of a drive against crime and economic chaos at the village level.
“Strike hard against illegal religious and evil cult activity; eliminate elements that affect the stability of village governance,” said the directive.
Read the whole article here:
New China arrests follow religion push – Yahoo! News
We just returned from Hong Kong where the annual Area Workshop for the Northern Asia BSF classes was held. Here are a couple of photos showing the staff of 2 of the 19 classes of this BSF area. Jackie and I are blessed to be a part of these two Taipei classes.
I ran across an interesting article about the spread of Christianity in Asia. It tells a story you probably aren’t hearing.
Asia Times Online :: China News – Christianity finds a fulcrum in Asia
We have returned to Taiwan after being in the good ole USA for a little over 5 months. We had a few issues getting off the ground in Dallas but still arrived on time via Singapore Air. Just a few hours after arriving all the bags were emptied but now it looks like a bomb went off in the apartment!
We have returned to Dallas. Cozumel was wonderful. I’ll post more later. For now it is off to bed to get rested. We have a million things to do before we leave again on Thursday.
Thanks to American Airlines airmiles we are currently getting some much needed R&R in Cozumel, Mexico. We got off to a rocky start because AA lost Fran’s luggage, but they delivered it a little over 24 hrs after we got settled in our hotel. So all is good now.
I had a fantastic day today. I was able to dive 3 times. Underwater here is just like watching the Discovery Channel or National Geographic. Unbelievable!
I saw lots & lots of fish – many like this parrot fish -
more later . . . . .
