For the last week I’ve been blogging about our Chinese Big Adventure. At the end of our trip we took two days to visit Beijing. One day Ryan and I ran around Tiananmen Square which was a surreal experience, and then the three of us went to the Forbidden City and the Emperor’s Summer Palace. [...]
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As I look back on my experience in China it already seems as if it was a lifetime ago, but I do think I learned several valuable lessons. I could blog about them for months, but I do want to share one that seemed to really hit home. The Chinese people were some of the [...]
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Yesterday I shared that we finally arrived in Wenzhou, China. I think the first great surprise was the size of the church where we would be teaching. I didn’t know what to expect when we left the US. I didn’t know if we would be in a house, a church, or some building, but when [...]
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Yesterday I shared Round 1 of our Chinese Big Adventure…let me share Round 2 with you today. Ryan, Buddy, and I got on a plane in Hong Kong and headed for Wenzhou, China. There were a few things that we knew—we knew what we thought we would be doing and we knew that someone was [...]
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On March 13 I left with Ryan Whitley and Buddy Gray to embark on an incredible trip. The three of us visited Hong Kong, Wenzhou, Shayouxian, Beijing, and Shanghai. Before we left for China a Chinese American asked us if we would be taking a translator with us…when he heard that we would not be [...]
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