SQJ Taipei

Our friend “Jen Ren” has caught the blogging bug as well…
Jen… Let us be one of the first to welcome you and give you a link!
Everyone else… to view Jen’s blog… you can click the link below or on the sidebar.
Jen’s Taiwan blog

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Poor Bethanie… she was pretty sick when Mollie was born. In the earliest pictures of her holding Mollie, she is wearing a 口罩 (I can’t think of the English word… it is a mask thingy that just goes over your mouth… isn’t there an English word for this besides “mask”?)
ANYWAY…
Bethanie’s illness was especially hard because [...]

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We will probably write frequently about homeschooling… maybe we will even get MRS SQJ to post about it!
MR SQJ recently finished an article for Taiwan Missionary Quarterly about the advantages and disadvantages of homeschooling in general and in Taiwan. I can get permission to publish that article on the web after the magazine comes out [...]

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… up on the website… Mollie #3
CLICK HERE to go directly to the family photo gallery
CLICK HERE to go to the home page of the website…
CLICK HERE to go to play DOOM FUNNEL CHASERS at BIGIDEA.COM

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“The Mimi” is MRS SQJ’s momma… she got that name from her first grandbaby… precious little Eden D.
Here’s the Mimi with her 8th grandbaby…

We love the Mimi for so many reasons… here are a few…

she is willing to hold babies
she likes holding babies
she is good at holding babies
she can hold babies a long time
she cooks [...]

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The biggest focus of our time in Taiwan has been spent with the Taiwan Christian Church which meets in Yung Ho City, a suburb of Taipei. We will probably write about this community of believers quite a bit on this blog.
The Sunday AM worship service has been at 9:30 for as long as I can [...]

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Good to eat, that is.
I almost had the chance to eat 3 full slabs today.
For a little Valentine’s Day treat… Mimi (what the kids call Mrs. SQJ’s mom, who is here for a couple weeks) watched the 3 older kids so Mrs. and I (and Mollie-Dollie) could go out for lunch. We chose TGIFridays in [...]

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More on this picture in a minute…

VITAL STATS:

Name: Mollie Mei (pronounced “MAY) Pagel
January 29, 2005 6:03AM
weight: 3.74kg = 8lbs 4oz
length: 52cm = 20.5 inches

She is a beauty and we are all very blessed! She has brought us a lot of joy… as well as a lot of tiredness We thank God for her and [...]

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We’ve finally done it. We started a blog… and we have high hopes! We also have a new baby so we may see those hopes spiral down the drain
Let us take a few moments to give you some information about this blog… why we have it… and how we hope to use it:
THE [...]

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