Team Update 309

Dear Friends and Family,

The God we serve is an awesome God! As many of you know we taught a couple camps over the winter vacation time, January 22- February 10, before jumping back into teaching and life in Yuli.

The first camp we did here in Yuli with a church. We had about eight students in a rather small area and thankfully we usually only had one or two students that got hurt per day. What I really appreciated about this camp is we got to work with all Christians, so when there was a major problem or concern instead of panicking about it, we would just pray about it either in the morning meeting or in the evening meeting. Instead of having a translator state that those kids are just so bad, they would come asking for pray for their own attitude for when the students misbehaved. During the camp we were able to begin to develop relationships with many of the younger Christians in Yuli.

The second camp was located on the other side of the island so we packed up almost all the supplies we had and made a nine hour trip to a small but beautiful school in the middle of the island. This camp was junior high school student week long overnight music camp. Being an overnight camp is hard all in its self, but teaching music defiantly added a new dimension. We ended up doing a musical with all the students and videoing it so they could enjoy the work they did. At the beginning of the week things looked near impossible and on the second to last day things got even worse. On the last day it was impossible, but God in his mercy did the impossible and the DVD was created, watched by the students, and a copy created for each student before they stepped off the bus in Taipei that evening.

As we get back into teaching and life in Yuli, it is not without is difficulties. We are tired, sick, and our schools are giving us new schedules by which we need to teach. Some of us even had to change schools or teachers. On Saturday when I was out shopping I found out that the store where I get most of the western style foods is gone, it is just one more thing on the pile of pressures we face each day. As a team we need to allow these pressures to draw us to God and together.

Please pray for the following

• That we would continue to have contact with the translators and students from the camps


• That our team would accept the grace God is giving us for the present


• That we would be able to continue to sow the good seed in this needy town


• That God would protect us as some of us go to Thailand, March 1-5 to renew our visas.