SQJ Taipei

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 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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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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The other day, Mark Roberts started post #6 in the series Ancient Ephesus and the New Testament with these words from Paul:

“But I will stay in Ephesus until Pentecost, for a wide door for effective work has opened to me, and there are many adversaries” (1 Cor 16:8-9).

Christians seem to talk a lot about [...]

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Though the weather outside is frightful… we bring you the “Better Late than Never” August Report…
Our August Monthly Report is available for download at this link: LINK TO NEWSLETTER
In this edition…
Neighborly decisions… CIY trip summary… ways to get more information about us and the ministry in Taiwan, and more…
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After a slow beginning to the typhoon season… we are about to have the third one in about 10 days. The other 2 brought rain, but were not direct hits. In fact, the 2nd one might not have even been a typhoon, but a tropical storm or maybe even a tropical depression.
Sepat is HUGE [...]

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Ten thousand Chinese become Christians each day, according to a stunning report by the National Catholic Reporter’s veteran correspondent John Allen, and 200 million Chinese may comprise the world’s largest concentration of Christians by mid-century, and the largest missionary force in history. If you read a single news article about China this year, make sure [...]

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