SQJ Taipei

a sharp metal object upside your head…
Did anyone else have JARTS?
We had them at my house and it was a blast to play. They are big (sorta)… heavy (sorta)… with sharp tips (sorta)… and those three “sortas” turn the JART into an incredibly dangerous missile when launched by hand on a nice summer’s evening.
I’m not [...]

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Just a couple things to note here…
I just upped the December 2006 newsletter to the usual place
Pagels In Taiwan Newsletters

Also… I want to remind you that Angie sends out weekly email updates via Yahoo Groups. If you’d like to receive those, just send a blank email to pagelsintaiwan-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
I’ve budgeted some time over the next [...]

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From Matt Proctor at the Ozark Christian College website.

OCC family,
We received word that at 3:30 a.m. (Monday, December 11, 2006) Seth Wilson, OCC’s founding academic dean, passed away and went to be with the Lord that he loved so well. Please pray for Anna and the rest of his family as they grieve the loss [...]

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I’m honestly not sure how to share stuff like this. I know that if it were me… I’d want the world to know and be praying if they felt led to do so. I know there are some OCC people that read this blog and would want to know about the situation with Brother Seth [...]

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Um… I hope those of you who left comments on this post:
A Very Special Announcement
Aren’t too mad at me…
for this post…
A Very Special Announcement - Update

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You know those cool “I’m a Mac” commercials?
Here’s a knock-off from Community Christian Church… good stuff, IMO.

There are 3 of them that I know of and you can find them all at the link below… along with some good discussion.
Think Christian - Christ vs. Christ-follower

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No… not the Toyota Supra… which was a great car by the way. I used to work at a Toyota dealership while attending classes at Ozark Christian College. Well… I didn’t work there at the *same time* as I was attending classes…. I’d go to class in the morning and then work at the Toyota [...]

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One thing I like about living in the city is that you always run into interesting art exhibitions as you are out and about. A few weeks ago when the group of encouragers from Journey’s Crossing were here we took them to the top of Taipei 101 on their first day so they could start [...]

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Back in about 1995… I spent some time working at the campus ministry called Koinonia at Missouri Southern State College (now Missouri Southern State University). One of the students was Laura… she married Seth Wolfshorndl and they just emailed us to let us know that they are in the process of adopting a baby from [...]

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Scott has passed several stones over the last few months and here is another one in the kidney… ~0.9cm across…… yikes
SORRY to all of those I deceived!
Keepin’ it edgy… all the time here at SQJTaipei.

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