Dec 182011
Dec 152011
I know I am biased but a really good cause to support with year end giving is the International Mission Board.
100% of your gift to The Lottie Moon Christmas Offering goes to overseas missions (IMB) and directly affects our yearly budget.
This is a link to a brief article about Lottie Moon.
This is a direct link to the page where you can contribute online to this very worthy cause.
Nov 272011
“And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now desolates the land, may be but a punishment, inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole People? We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!”
Abraham Lincoln, March 30, 1863
Abraham Lincoln, March 30, 1863
Nov 222011
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| Thanksgiving Edition 2011 | |
 Radical needs call for radical prayerThe 2012 East Asian Peoples Prayer Calendar is now available in English, Chinese, Korean and Japanese at http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/resources/. It can be ordered through the IMB Resource Center at 1-800-999-3113 or online at http://imbresources.org/. Order plenty of this free resource to encourage your prayer group, mission group or entire church to join in praying for the East Asian Peoples all year long.East Asian cities featured – December 4 to 11 Week of Prayer.  In Japan’s male-dominated society, a man’s identity centers on his work. But losing one’s position is a fall from grace that leads to shame. For many Japanese, losing a job means losing their identity. For some touched by the ministry of International Mission Board (IMB) workers to the homeless, it means new birth. Read more about Tokyo, Japan at http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org and www.asiastories.com.
Factories are the bus stops and the monuments and the landmarks. Everything exists to serve them in Dongguan, China. The city is divided into 32 districts, each one specializing in a different kind of manufacturing, with more than 3,000 factories crammed into one town. Read the story at http://www.imb.org/.
Special Week of Prayer resources
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Lottie Moon was a 4-foot, 3-inch tall spiritual giant who pushed the absolute limits of service. She lived a life so sacrificial that 99 years after her death, hundreds of thousands of Southern Baptists still continue to give to an offering bearing her name. The annual offering now provides 57 percent of the support for the Southern Baptist missionary force of 4,952 missionaries worldwide. This year’s goal is $175 million. Go to 
Download a bulletin insert for your church at | Precious in the sight of the Lord — giving thanks This is a great time of year to give thanks for the lives of East Asian Peoples workers who have concluded their earthly journey this year.Two outstanding workers in active service died this year from illness. Both of them were 62 years of age, and both were veteran workers who had served in numerous places. Both left grieving spouses, families and colleagues. But they also left rich legacies of lives that were changed for eternity through their ministries. Read more about active workers at http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/field-blog/precious-in-his-sight/.Dan Ray, very tall and obviously Caucasian, always drew strange looks when he told people that he was Chinese. He was born to missionary parents Rex and Janet Gilman Ray on December 25, 1923 in Wuchow, China. Read more about emeritus missionaries at http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/field-blog/precious-in-his-sight/ .  |
| Giving thanks — frontline reports Workers among the East Asian Peoples have many reasons for thanksgiving.* Read more at http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/field-blog/east-asian-workers-give-thanks/.
*Pseudonyms are used for some cities and UPGs. |
| Those who still need to give thanks A worker among the Coconut People of East Asia writes, “As you focus on thanking God this month, the Coconut people will be burning incense to their dead ancestors. Please pray that the strongholds will be broken and the blinders will be lifted, and ask that the Coconut people will turn to the Father!”There is extreme lostness among many East Asian Peoples Unreached People Groups. Go to http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/embrace/ to explore ways that you can impact lostness through your prayers and involvement. |
 Student opportunitiesVisit www.onelifematters.orgto find out how to make your one life count!Hands On Fall 2012 jobs will be posted soon at http://www.thetask.org/. |
| Looking for Chinese faces in AfricaFollow Joy Tiller on her trip to Africa. Read “Prayers of Joy” at http://eastasianpeoples.imb.org/prayer-blog/prayers-of-joy-looking-for-chinese-faces/. |
Oct 282011
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of my mother’s death. I wish I could say I understood grief, but honestly, the older I get, I conclude, grief still has it’s way of surprising me.
Yesterday I was putting up clothing that I had packed in our crate from the US. I unpacked one of my mom’s blouses, and one of her hats. It dawned on me that this time last year, Oct 30, 2010 when I went home to TX for my mother’s funeral, that I snatched these two articles from her home and packed them in my suitcase for when I return to Taiwan. Then in April 2011, when we left Taiwan to go stateside for 4 months, I had packed the same two articles in my check in luggage, taking them to TX with me. In August 2011 we packed a crate of things to send to Taiwan. Yes, Mom’s blouse and hat tucked among the things, which I rediscovered yesterday!
I haven’t worn them, I just like to pack and keep them and take them back and forth from one side of the world to the other. I recognize the Lord’s comfort here.
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him. NAS
When Jesus went to the cross – he even bore our griefs.
How do you know you if have really surrendered your grief to the Lord?
Could it be when you recognize his comfort? Like I said, grief still has a way of surprising me, but better yet, the Lord’s comfort is even greater.
Do you like My Mom’s Hat?
Oct 092011
Every once in a while we go north of town to an area where there are a few stores that carry more products that Americans & European people want. Since we are in the middle of a three day weekend (Monday is a holiday – Taiwan’s independence anniversary) we decided to make a run. Here is a picture of the loot – $53 worth.
bag of 7 limes – 2 bags microwave popcorn – box of 2 pkgs crackers – 10 oz Brown sugar – 2 lbs flour – Lea & Perins Worchester Sauce – Can of lima beans – Can of Chili – Jar of peperoncini peppers – 2 bananas – Ground Nutmeg – Marjoram leaves – Celery powder – can of pinto beans – Can of black beans – Mandarin oranges – Salad dressing – sm bag Cheetos – sm bag Sour Cream & Onion Ruffles.
Here are a couple of things that we did not buy:
Seaweed Wasabi potato chips yummmmmmm
Noodles Oodles facebook credits !@#$%^&*???
Sep 292011
I am a native Texan and it makes me sick to see what is happening back home.
The ten-month period through July was the driest in Texas state history. Entire lakes have dried up. Since last November, almost 1,500 homes have burned in nearly 21,000 fires across the state.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Check it out at The Big Picture (click link below).
Texas drought and wildfires – The Big Picture – Boston.com.
