Sharing Christ's Love with International Students in North Texas
Since arriving in Southern China, our trip has been a whirlwind. We met in Guangzhou with the first Chinese student that we were friendship partners with Jack with his friend Phillip. Jack has a daughter the same age as our little girl and they were friends when he was a student at UTA in 2005. …
I am sitting in the front of a projectile moving nearly 340 km per hour. We are sitting in in China’s newest class of high speed train jetting away from Wuhan on the way to the southern city of Guangzhou. Because of trains such as these, what used to take 19 hours takes only 5 …
Today was a very special day for our little girl. Today is the day we went to visit the orphanage where she spent the first year of her life. In addition, with the help of our special guide, Cherry and our driver, we were able to find the place where Charis was found abandoned bundled …
Hi all. I just wanted to let you all know that we are posting ALL our pictures from the trip on our flikr account. You can access it at http://flic.kr/s/aHsjv1EDZL .
We arrived from Beijing in Hefei and were greeted by our guide Cherry. We set up to have a private driver and guide for the time in Anhui as we didn’t know that many people and we needed some specific information in terms of finding Charis’ orphanage and the place where she was originally found. …
As I write this, I lie in a sleeper train car from Beijing to Hefei, settling in for a 9 hour ride. At least we will be sleeping most of the way and so the trip should happen quickly. While Lisa and the kids have their own stateroom. I am sharing with three others. One …
Last night we met with Catherine and her husband Vince for dinner. We know her from over 10 years ago when she was a graduate student at UTA. She has since written a book and hopes to do further study in the university. They are doing very well. She is very special for us because …
Continue reading “A Light day with some terrific friends in Beijing”
One of the greatest blessing in going on this trip is the opportunity to spend time with our former student friends and there are few better ways to do this than seeing what is special in their home towns. We have had the opportunity to share our life with them, now they can share their …
Today was a very special day for our family. One of the things we have been most looking forward to in our trip to Asia was going to the orphanage near Beijing (http://harmonyoutreach.org/425567.ihtml) Our daughter has been doing fund raisers for our time there, friends from our faith family had donated items and funds for …
Continue reading “The mouths of babes and on to the Northern Capital, Beijing…”
The last couple of days has been quite the days. It has been so full that we all have been falling asleep as early as 9 PM. Yesterday, the daughter of our dear friend Garrett, Lucy, took us around all over Tianjin. Garrett, a part of the previous year’s UTA EMBA class, has become a …
