SQJ Taipei

In this edition, we explain how we came to add Sunday School class for kids to our house church meeting. It includes some of the reasons why we do what we do.
Our DECEMBER Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

House Church Development
Pic of Zach playing soccer
Pic of Angie’s book study group
A new bike trail [...]

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I’ve not been feeling well… enough about that.
Because this really makes me sick
read the link… but here’s the gist…
a church wrote the following to a team of missionaries:
a couple of weeks ago, an anonymous letter was sent to Italy after i had gone and spoken at a supporting church. it was just a scribbled note [...]

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When we started working with the church here in Ankeng (安坑) we decided that we would plan to be gone from some of the meetings every few weeks.
The purpose of these absences would be to allow the Taiwanese members to do 2 things:

make decisions without the feeling that “The Missionaries” have an agenda - they [...]

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When I posted the last monthly report, I mentioned going on a retreat with the Yunghe church. You can read about it in our November Monthly Report which is available to download.
In this edition…

BBQ the Taiwanese way
Teacher Bethanie
Upcoming Events
A bit about Wulai

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The Amish are usually right.
OCT 2, 2007
One year ago today, a shooter entered a one-room Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., dismissed all but 10 girls, and fired at them execution-style, killing five before shooting himself.
Within hours, the Amish community forgave the killer and his family. News of the instant forgiveness stunned the outside world [...]

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Our Ankeng house church will be attending a retreat with our “mother church” (Yunghe) today. We are going to Wulai and there should be about 200 people total.
Our October Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

Aunt Angie’s Awesome English Class
How to find our photos on the web
Scott’s quick trip to the USA in November
Brief [...]

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I wish this one was mine… but it isn’t. It is from Craig & Karen Thompson.
In their recent newsletter they were sharing about some of the contacts they had made recently. Now… you have to know that Craig and Karen (with teammates Jen and Peter) are making deliberate attempts to ensure that people realize that [...]

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HT: Michael at The View From Taiwan
I found this article about Taiwan’s Aborigine Christians pretty interesting on several levels.

It assumes that Christianity is primarily about “going to church”
It reveals some of Taiwan’s history, primarily in aboriginal cultures
It spotlights some of the pitfalls of transplanting western Christian structures here
I happen to know John McCall who is [...]

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Another typhoon (hurricane) is passing just a bit to the north of the island and is bringing intense rain and wind to our area.
Our September Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

The distinctives of Christianity help form a new mantra for our church
Back to school
Yao Ming visits Taiwan
more…

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What Christ thinks of the church is a question of great concern to all Christians. What we ourselves think of it from the inside and what others think of it from the outside are also important. But far more significant is the view of Jesus Christ himself, since he is the church’s founder, head, and [...]

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