Some of Wednesday's events...

Today we were off to Tainan, a city 45 minutes away from Kaosiung, and I was excited! I had made email contact with Charlie, but had not talked with him on the phone. As we were driving to Tainan, I was holding Charlie’s business card in my hand and praying as we were just talking in the car. And Charlie called Mike! So we ended up meeting with Charlie for lunch, and it was the best and most exotic meal I’ve had since I’ve been in Taiwan. It was an 8-10 course meal! Started with rice, did some sushi, oysters, noodles, lamb, some egg squid soup thing, some wonderful tofu… as I’m typing this, I’m realizing I can just post a picture and it will do most of the explaining.















So anyways, Charlie brought his two sisters along. We didn’t get a chance to talk a lot about Jesus, but we shared in good conversation. Pray that Charlie and his sisters want to do with English classes with Mike and Carolyn, and that God will use that to bring Charlie and his family to Himself.

After a long, wonderful, exotic lunch (we sat at that table for an hour, chowing down), we went talked to Southern Taiwan University in Tainan. The fields are ripe for harvest at STU. I don’t want to spoil the fun, so I’m going to let my dad, my sister, and Rebecca tell you the stories from their perspectives, but here is mine. Can I just say I was blessed because I had the chance to share with someone who was Hakka. Dave, my real good friend, roommate last year, love him to death – he was a missionary’s kid over here in Taiwan and his parents were missionaries to the Hakka people, and I see myself not only as an ambassador of Jesus here , but an extension of Dave, and want to represent him here. I miss and love you brother if you are reading this.

Anyways, I was talking with an teacher and her student (who is Hakka), and her student spoke English well. We were just having small talk about culture, Taiwan religion, why we’re here, but I had an evangecube in my hand and he asked what it was. I had the chance to present the story of Jesus to him. After it was all done, I asked him if he’d heard the story before and he said he had many times. I was surprised he said many times. He explained he’d seen movies, read about it, heard about from people, and I asked if he believed, and he said his family would be very mad if he became a Christian. So pray for this fellow. I don’t know his name, but we gave him some info on free English classes.

I was talking with Mike, and I just wonder, does this guy already believe? But the deal is faith, and faith equals belief and trust. But Mike said that this guy just has to get in a small group and he has dealt with situations similar to this many times with people who worry about hurting their family and want to respect them. Mike told me he explains that he believes faith in Jesus will make people better sons/daughters, better fathers/mothers, and better husbands/wives. And so for my new friend, pray he goes to the English classes and makes contact with them, but pray also that God would continue to cross his path with the Gospel over and over and over again.

We think we are going to go back to Tainan to again visit the campus later this week. Pray for us. God’s Holy Spirit is doing an exciting work at Southern Taiwan University!