April 6, A One Time Palace is now a Tourist Attraction!

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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April 5, A Few More Thoughts from the Chinese Big Adventure

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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April 4, Chinese Big Adventure–Round 3!

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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April 3, Round Two of the Chinese Big Adventure!

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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April 2, Our Chinese Big Adventure!

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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