Ni hao!
Well, it is late-late here, and our trip has gone by extremely fast. It has been a wonderful trip and I have been making some great relationships. It was really hard to say goodbye to friends today. Very tough. I'm excited about seeing all of you guys, but am very sad to leave. Our bus leaves the hotel at 10 am tomorrow morning. (9 PM Thursday at home.)
Well, see you guys on your side of the globe pretty soon! Thanks for your awesome support on this trip-I know our whole team could feel it. Love ya!
Showing posts with label China 08. Show all posts
Showing posts with label China 08. Show all posts
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Monday, May 26, 2008
2nd Tuesday Update
Our trip is going great still! I have been able to make some great relationships and witness some great, interesting, and crazy things. I cannot wait to post more about each day when I come back!! It's hard to believe that it is Tuesday morning here and we leave on Friday morning. This trip has gone by way too fast!!
I think I left off on Saturday on my last post. Saturday we went to an English corner/church in the morning. That went pretty well, though the conversations in my group weren't totally as focused on what I hoped. That afternoon was the beach party for all of our Chinese friends we had made throughout the week. We had Chinese barbeque, volleyball, soccer, frisbee, and tons of fun things to do. At the end of the night a man who helped host the party set up a huge screen with a projector and we watched "Bee Movie" in Chinese. =P The people loved it! They chose that movie because it is for all age levels, funny and easy to understand. At the end of the night we had a bonfire down closer to the water, but that didn't turn out quite how we planned. It is a long story that I will have to write more about later, but we had a few "tree huggers" and "save the earth people," which turned into 3 mad men with gasoline and fire! But nothing bad happened, just a semi fight. The wood was too wet to light, so that was about the end of the party and most people left. That night a couple of team members and I were had a great conversation with a student who seemed to be in her twenties. She is the most searching person I have ever seen-she knows she needs God, but has so many questions about faith, and she is really frustrated.
Sunday morning we went to the International Christian Fellowship, and then I went to an English corner in the afternoon. I have been able to have some really great converstions with people at these corners. On Tuesday night I spoke with a new believer, but recently I've either been talking to people who are not Christians, but have very limited English, or with people who are Christians and have some really tough theological questions. But overall I think we are having a great turn out!
Monday we went to a tourist island and then Stephen and Brett, a couple of my friends who are staying here for two months, arrived and we made some plans for a puppet show that we are doing tonight. Tonight (Tuesday) is the show for 2,000 people. WOW. We have a couple of songs and a skit that we are performing, then a really good musician on our team is playing and singing.
Please pray for my team. Almost all of us have felt gross at some point this weekend, and one guy is pretty sick right now. Thanks!
Sorry for not being able to post pictures.. I want to, but haven't been able to find the time to upload them.
Hope that you are all doing great!
I think I left off on Saturday on my last post. Saturday we went to an English corner/church in the morning. That went pretty well, though the conversations in my group weren't totally as focused on what I hoped. That afternoon was the beach party for all of our Chinese friends we had made throughout the week. We had Chinese barbeque, volleyball, soccer, frisbee, and tons of fun things to do. At the end of the night a man who helped host the party set up a huge screen with a projector and we watched "Bee Movie" in Chinese. =P The people loved it! They chose that movie because it is for all age levels, funny and easy to understand. At the end of the night we had a bonfire down closer to the water, but that didn't turn out quite how we planned. It is a long story that I will have to write more about later, but we had a few "tree huggers" and "save the earth people," which turned into 3 mad men with gasoline and fire! But nothing bad happened, just a semi fight. The wood was too wet to light, so that was about the end of the party and most people left. That night a couple of team members and I were had a great conversation with a student who seemed to be in her twenties. She is the most searching person I have ever seen-she knows she needs God, but has so many questions about faith, and she is really frustrated.
Sunday morning we went to the International Christian Fellowship, and then I went to an English corner in the afternoon. I have been able to have some really great converstions with people at these corners. On Tuesday night I spoke with a new believer, but recently I've either been talking to people who are not Christians, but have very limited English, or with people who are Christians and have some really tough theological questions. But overall I think we are having a great turn out!
Monday we went to a tourist island and then Stephen and Brett, a couple of my friends who are staying here for two months, arrived and we made some plans for a puppet show that we are doing tonight. Tonight (Tuesday) is the show for 2,000 people. WOW. We have a couple of songs and a skit that we are performing, then a really good musician on our team is playing and singing.
Please pray for my team. Almost all of us have felt gross at some point this weekend, and one guy is pretty sick right now. Thanks!
Sorry for not being able to post pictures.. I want to, but haven't been able to find the time to upload them.
Hope that you are all doing great!
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Thursday Update
Hey Everyone!!
So far so good on our trip! Sorry for not being able to post more. We have been super busy!
We landed on Monday, and spent the last half of the day having an orientation and getting settled in.
On Tuesday we woke up early and prayer walked a local fish market, which is like a whole different world. They literally sell things that you could never imagine there. As we walked, I noticed the emptiness in the workers eyes. This is life for them - every single day. Some arrive as early as 5 am.
On Wednesday we prayer walked a local huge Bhuddist temple and climbed the mountain it is located on. Being in the temple is always oppressing... between the smell of incense, the chants and huge idols, it is crazy. It is so so sad watching these people worship and work so hard for these ugly, scary, deformed chunks of rock. The people are so poor, yet still bring offerings of bags of fruit and other things to give to Buddha. It is crazy.
Later that day we girls on the team went to a fabric and silk market, where we picked out silk and are having custom traditional dresses made. (Mine is actually a shirt.) It is amazing because the total cost of my shirt: silk+labor of the tailor, is only going to cost around $13 American dollars!! They have amazing prices here. After the market I met up with a Chinese friend from last year, who is a Christ follower. She is so so sweet, and we had a great time. That night we went to an English corner at the University, where I talked to one particular man, Jason, for a long time. Long story short, (due to time,) when we started talking he was lost. He is now found, the old is gone and the new has come into his life!! Praise Father!!!!
I will write more about this in the states. At the English corner a wonderful musician on our trip brought his guitar and was playing praise music. It was awesome, and the people loved it. However, one young lady politely came up to a girl on our team and explained that because there were 3 days of mourning for the earthquake victims, that we are not supposed to be singing and doing music in a public place like that. She was very sweet, and suggested that we sing one song and pray for the victims. That was especially neat coming from her, because she is not even a C.
Today we took a bus and traveled 3 hours to tour a place I will post more about when I get home... Just for safety, you never know in China how they can get hints at my location.
Tomorrow we will be chillin' and making more friendships and ministering to people. I might possibly have a modeling job in the afternoon, like I had in 2006. They crave American models. It may just be my friend doing it though, but Mrs. F said to come along and they will probably have me do it too.
I will try to post some pictures tomorrow, but I need to go to bed now! It is late at night here, early in Mei Guo. (America)
Thanks for the love, support and prayers!!!
So far so good on our trip! Sorry for not being able to post more. We have been super busy!
We landed on Monday, and spent the last half of the day having an orientation and getting settled in.
On Tuesday we woke up early and prayer walked a local fish market, which is like a whole different world. They literally sell things that you could never imagine there. As we walked, I noticed the emptiness in the workers eyes. This is life for them - every single day. Some arrive as early as 5 am.
On Wednesday we prayer walked a local huge Bhuddist temple and climbed the mountain it is located on. Being in the temple is always oppressing... between the smell of incense, the chants and huge idols, it is crazy. It is so so sad watching these people worship and work so hard for these ugly, scary, deformed chunks of rock. The people are so poor, yet still bring offerings of bags of fruit and other things to give to Buddha. It is crazy.
Later that day we girls on the team went to a fabric and silk market, where we picked out silk and are having custom traditional dresses made. (Mine is actually a shirt.) It is amazing because the total cost of my shirt: silk+labor of the tailor, is only going to cost around $13 American dollars!! They have amazing prices here. After the market I met up with a Chinese friend from last year, who is a Christ follower. She is so so sweet, and we had a great time. That night we went to an English corner at the University, where I talked to one particular man, Jason, for a long time. Long story short, (due to time,) when we started talking he was lost. He is now found, the old is gone and the new has come into his life!! Praise Father!!!!
I will write more about this in the states. At the English corner a wonderful musician on our trip brought his guitar and was playing praise music. It was awesome, and the people loved it. However, one young lady politely came up to a girl on our team and explained that because there were 3 days of mourning for the earthquake victims, that we are not supposed to be singing and doing music in a public place like that. She was very sweet, and suggested that we sing one song and pray for the victims. That was especially neat coming from her, because she is not even a C.
Today we took a bus and traveled 3 hours to tour a place I will post more about when I get home... Just for safety, you never know in China how they can get hints at my location.
Tomorrow we will be chillin' and making more friendships and ministering to people. I might possibly have a modeling job in the afternoon, like I had in 2006. They crave American models. It may just be my friend doing it though, but Mrs. F said to come along and they will probably have me do it too.
I will try to post some pictures tomorrow, but I need to go to bed now! It is late at night here, early in Mei Guo. (America)
Thanks for the love, support and prayers!!!
Monday, May 19, 2008
Made it to City X
Guest Blogger: Mom
Thank you so much for stopping by to check on Bethany!
Yes, she gave dear old mom access to her blog to post for her. She will not be pulling up her blog over there, as she/we would rather it not come across the server there. I will be posting what she emails me, sometimes adding (explanations in parentheses) where necessary. She called yesterday from Hong Kong, and this morning we received an email that she was in her city. She is 13 hours ahead of us, so her posts/email will reflect a time and day that are a day ahead of us. I know she would love your comments here if you have or create a google account. If you don't have one, you can email me a comment and I'll post it.
This is an excerpt from an email we received this morning about their arrival to their city. She is referring to the period of national mourning in China that began at 2:28 PM Monday and will last three days, honoring the lives of those killed in the earthquake last Monday at 2:28 PM when the earthquake struck .
Thank you SO much for your prayers for her and for their awesome team! The team is there during a critical time... a time of hurting, mourning, and searching. I know they will plant many seeds this week.
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"We made it to city X. We have been here for a few hours. We had half of orientation, then went downstairs to eat chow fan (fried rice). YUM!! There is a new place now.
At 2:28pm everywhere in China sirens went off and shops closed for a few minutes, cars slowed and honked, and people payed respect to the earthquake victims. It was really cool to be here for that. We were eating at the time, and when the sirens blared, there was also a live tv broadcast of the sirens, and soldiers saluting in Tienanmen Square, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and all over. It was really cool, but it was also really weird and eerie. Those are the same sirens used for air raids, and it was kind of freaky to hear them going off in a country like this, and it was also a sad time....
Wo ai ni!!!!! (I love you!!)"
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**Edited to add these videos. The top one is probably what she saw on the TV broadcast she mentioned. The bottom one is likely what it was like in her city during the observance.
Thank you so much for stopping by to check on Bethany!
Yes, she gave dear old mom access to her blog to post for her. She will not be pulling up her blog over there, as she/we would rather it not come across the server there. I will be posting what she emails me, sometimes adding (explanations in parentheses) where necessary. She called yesterday from Hong Kong, and this morning we received an email that she was in her city. She is 13 hours ahead of us, so her posts/email will reflect a time and day that are a day ahead of us. I know she would love your comments here if you have or create a google account. If you don't have one, you can email me a comment and I'll post it.
This is an excerpt from an email we received this morning about their arrival to their city. She is referring to the period of national mourning in China that began at 2:28 PM Monday and will last three days, honoring the lives of those killed in the earthquake last Monday at 2:28 PM when the earthquake struck .
Thank you SO much for your prayers for her and for their awesome team! The team is there during a critical time... a time of hurting, mourning, and searching. I know they will plant many seeds this week.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"We made it to city X. We have been here for a few hours. We had half of orientation, then went downstairs to eat chow fan (fried rice). YUM!! There is a new place now.
At 2:28pm everywhere in China sirens went off and shops closed for a few minutes, cars slowed and honked, and people payed respect to the earthquake victims. It was really cool to be here for that. We were eating at the time, and when the sirens blared, there was also a live tv broadcast of the sirens, and soldiers saluting in Tienanmen Square, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and all over. It was really cool, but it was also really weird and eerie. Those are the same sirens used for air raids, and it was kind of freaky to hear them going off in a country like this, and it was also a sad time....
Wo ai ni!!!!! (I love you!!)"
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**Edited to add these videos. The top one is probably what she saw on the TV broadcast she mentioned. The bottom one is likely what it was like in her city during the observance.
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