SQJ Taipei

I’m going to cut/paste the latest entry from over at http://www.teamexpansion.org/caring4mark/.
I probably won’t quote or link many of the posts… but I feel like I NEED to mention Mark occasionally to remind us all to pray. I’ve noticed at least one reader of this blog left a comment for the Trotters on their update page… [...]

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I’ve got a lot of posts to make….

“daddy-blogging”
“uncle-blogging”
“missions-blogging”
“churchplanting-blogging”
“ChineseNewYear-blogging”
“etc-blogging”

I’m gonna try to get some posts out today and tommorrow…..
Starting with an update about Mark Trotter…..
SQJ

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http://www.teamexpansion.org/caring4mark/
On January 20th, we received an urgent prayer need… Mark Trotter is a fellow Team Expansion missionary who was planning to move to Asia very soon. His wife is Lyla and they have 9 children. They were in Colorado Springs for some training at MTI when severe headaches became too intense for Mark to bear. [...]

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Just click on the play icon to play it right here… if you have shockwave flash installed. If you don’t know… just try it nothing bad will happen. I promise you.
Taiwan has mandatory military service for all males.
Hat tip to Wandering To Tamshui
EDIT: From the comments: Jason says…
Yeah! they call it “The Road to Heaven” [...]

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in email….
I’m sorry if I haven’t replied to your emails lately…… I’m trying….
I’ve got to find a better way………
Please someone tell me if Vonage works in Taiwan. I don’t have time to check into that right now.
SQJ

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These quizzes are all the rage lately… pretty funny. Also pretty dumb… but only takes about 40 seconds and you get a blog post out of it. So… here it is.
I’m a Chevrolet Corvette!

You’re a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You’re all about winning the race and getting the job done. While [...]

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As the father of 2 boys (and since I am one myself!) I’m always interested to read about “bringing up boys”. One of the great resources for this topic is the book by James Dobson of that same name. If you are bringing up a boy… I can say without qualification that you need to [...]

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This is the last of the 5 quotes from Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures. Even though Sean C. already won the contest… I want to share the final quote with you…
From: An Adequate Philosophy of Religion, by Abraham Kuyper
Wherever a man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may [...]

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And… according the the scriptures… the angels of heaven as well…
If you have visited us, you probably know David and Fannie Xie. Their children are Bunny and Hong Yuan. Bethanie got a phone call from Bunny on New Year’s Eve making the announcement that she and her brother would be baptized the following morning. I [...]

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11 things about my scooter:

leaks oil
holes in seat
chain came off once
top speed on the bridge = 65MPH
spray painted flat black finish
crooked steering column
plastic body literally held on by screws and wire
goes for about 3 weeks on NT$100 worth of gas
matching CHiPs helmets
for a while was “key (optional)”
seats 5 (or sometimes 2 - SQJ & don_furnaloni)

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