I posted a week ago about the believers we met but haven’t shared since. We decided to check out their fellowship Sunday and it ended up being only about a 20 minute bus ride away. It was at the home of a family from Holland that have been here for 16 years. There were around [...]

 
I just posted some pics in our gallery of our campus and the area we live. www.waiguorens.com/China/Gallery.html

As many of you know, one of our prayers was that we would connect to some other believers in the city. Other than the guy who runs the cafe in town we had not run in to anyone else.  At the beginning of the week I was on Facebook and was searching for people in [...]

I was looking back over the chapter I was reading in Tozer’s book and found this section that I had underlined. It’s an encouragement for me to endure and press on.
“This veil is not a beautiful thing and it is not a thing about which we commonly care to talk. But I am addressing the [...]

As I’ve talked to a few different friends over these past couple weeks they’ve shared of something stirring in their hearts. It’s something that Jess and I have strongly felt too. It’s something that I’ve felt before, but for some reason I’ve let it slip away.
I’m talking about an aching thirst for the Divine. It’s [...]

Up until today we’ve eaten every meal (lunch & dinner) in a restaurant. Within about 150 yards of our apartment we have a few dozen different ones. We’ve tried around 10 or so of them and they’ve all been pretty good. Now if you were to do that in American you would be spending a [...]

One of the recurring themes that has grabbed my attention since I’ve arrived has been the subject of relinquishing our “rights.” We couldn’t bring very many books with us, but one that I chose was, “Have We No Rights?” by Mabel Williamson, a missionary to China many years ago. I got it when [...]

We just finished up our first week of classes. We have four different teachers and are in class 14 hours a week. With just the three of us in class, they should be very helpful. At this point though, Adam seems to be the only one who can understand much of the speaking. [...]

As we’ve been over here we’ve been trying to find out how much we can say, and what we can and can’t say on here. But we really haven’t heard a good answer. We want to be as open as possible so we can communicate with all of you who are reading this, but because [...]