SQJ Taipei

Hello to the students at Truman State University (the Bulldogs) and Central Christian College of the Bible (the Heralds)!
We are spending about 1 week in Kirksville and Moberly seeing friends and co-workers and former interns and others who have been to Taiwan. We are also making lots of new contacts and are thrilled with how [...]

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耶穌愛我知道，因為聖經告訴我，
所有小孩主牧養，我雖軟弱主強壯。
主耶穌愛我，主耶穌愛我，
主耶穌愛我 ，有聖經告訴我。
Before we sang these words to Grandma and Grandpa, we told her, “Even though we are singing Chinese words, we think you’ll know the meaning.”
Sure enough she did…
When we finished singing… she smiled and said, “Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so…”
If you don’t know about my [...]

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That’s what I’ve been calling Angie the last couple days.
In the middle of the night… 1:15AM Thursday… Mollie scratched Angie’s cornea. Wierd… yeah… I know.
I was sleeping on the couch because of my back (and the couch is wonderful so that is nice) and since we are staying with my mom and dad now, we [...]

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To my kids… my mom is Grandma Pagel…
But today I’m writing about MY Grandma Pagel - My dad’s mom.
She is about 87 years old and lives in a small town in Iowa.
A few years ago she suffered a stroke which has had an effect on her mobility and has limited her in some ways… much [...]

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My dad was driving.
I was in the passengers seat.
Mom was in the back seat… so that I could have the additional legroom found in the front seat.
When we left First Christian Church (Council Bluffs, Iowa)… I’d guess we were about the 7th car back.
Dad turned on the headlights and the flashers and we followed the [...]

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Bethanie will tickle me because I don’t have a picture of just her… but here are pics of the other 3 and then everyone all together at the Tulsa airport.
The other kids in the last picture are Sidney Jo and JT Reagor and Cale and Caitlin and Carissa Casey.

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For those of you who are still checking this blog…
We aren’t getting a good connection to the internet out here in the sticks…..
We do have horses and we can see the stars and we are loving the open spaces… but we are missing having a constant connection to the internet.
Basically the place we are living [...]

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On the plane from Taipei to LA, I took Josh to the bathroom twice… we had to wait in behind some others on both occasions and while we waited we were looking out the porthole and saw the backside of the wing and the clouds below. Those in line were treated to these gems from [...]

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A few days ago… some of the readers of SQJTaipei (as well as myself) challenged don furnaloni to use some rather mundane objects as a springboard to a post on his blog…
The suggestions:
packing tape
cheese puffs
an anvil
a live chicken
Well… he’s got the packing tape up. Nice work, don.
NICE - don furnaloni makes good

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