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If you read this in a feed reader… I’m not sure why our January 2008 Newsletter post popped up on your feed reader yesterday. I was editing the categories and titles of some earlier posts so maybe that is why.
Anyway… Our FEBRUARY 2008 Monthly Report is available for download. Late… but available now!
In this edition…

Too [...]

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In one of the most insane acts from a philosophy based on deception and control… the TEAM hospital in Dadeldhura, Nepal has been closed due to Maoist influence.
Click to read “In God’s Hands” at Nepali Times.
“This is the most direct proof I have seen that politics kills people,” says Deb Raj Joshi, a Dadeldhura trader, [...]

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We thank God for giving us another year to minister in Taiwan.
I’m getting ready for surgery tomorrow!
Our JANUARY Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

The King Has Come
Christmas Outreach Report
BASE jumping Taipei 101
A Note from Team Expansion’s President

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I have missionary friends living in Uganda and one friend who recently left after spending several months there.
I’m probably like most people in that I’m usually pretty busy with the stuff right around me… my own work, my family, Taiwan, etc. When I heard about the Ebola outbreak, I figured my friends were all OK [...]

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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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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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Whatever you do… don’t give him a card.
With some exceptional insight into both Taiwanese *and* Christian culture… I proudly link to…
Here’s Your Card

I FULLY expect to get pulled over by a Taiwan Police man, to hear him say, “May I see your card?” Then, after giving him my Drivers License, hearing him then say, “No, [...]

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