SQJ Taipei

My goal was 40km.
Reaching that goal was seriously in doubt when, in my 2nd kilometer, I saw 2 dogs attacking a kitten. I have to admit that I really didn’t want to stop as I knew we couldn’t take another cat. We already have 1 which is probably twice as many as we should have.
However… [...]

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Long ago… on the detasseling crew… we’d eat bugs (mostly box-elder bugs) once in a while as part of our mind game strategy with the kids on our crew. It helped with discipline issues if they thought we were a little psycho.
But the most bugs I’ve ever eaten in my life was last Thursday night [...]

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Patrick Cowsill has a really interesting post about POWs in Taiwan during WWII. If you remember… Taiwan was under Japanese control until the end of WWII… so the POWs were Allied forces.
Patrick’s grandfather served in the Pacific and writes…
Actually, my grandpa hated the war; he rarely talked about it.
Same with my grandfather, who also served [...]

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Just a bit of news here…
Our MAY Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

In the Midst of It (some ways we serve in our apartment complex)
TMF Spring Retreat for Ladies (or maybe it is the TMF Retreat for Spring Ladies?)
The Thankful Pigeon

Clicking on the image below will open the PDF newsletter directly (about 105kb)

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Hope y’all are doing great!
Our APRIL Monthly Report is available for download.
In this edition…

“In the World… But Not Of the World”
What’s Been Happening
Taiwan’s “Super Toilet”

Clicking on the image below will open the PDF newsletter directly (about 615kb)

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We’ve enjoyed a bit of nice weather lately, but right now we are getting some much needed rain. Thanks for checking in with us here on the blog…
Our MARCH 2008 Monthly Report is available for download. We’ve had it done for a bit, but neglected to post the link here…
In this edition…

Our annual trip to [...]

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www.sportsandenglish.com is now LIVE!
I’d like to see more pictures in the gallery… I’d like to have it translated in more places, but it seems ready for visitors.
 
The first Team Expansion Sports and English Camp was in the summer of 2006. I could not attend as we were in the USA at that time, [...]

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I had back surgery 2 months ago.
I’ve been trying to be a good patient. It is somewhat difficult here because you never know when what you are doing will be met with shock and horror by our Taiwanese friends.
Bananas… the PERFECT food, right?!?! One friend who shall remain nameless reminded me SEVERAL times how BAD [...]

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Thanks to Wayne at ekklisia for linking to What Kind of Resurrection? on Dr. Darrell Bock’s blog.
Dr. Bock is one of the main speakers at the Taiwan Missionary Fellowship 2008 Summer Conference.
Although I’ve done some work on the TMF website and currently sit on the administrative committee, I didn’t know Dr. Bock had a blog.
Thanks [...]

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–hattip to Michael Turton (who hattipped one of his readers, too)–
I truly love Taipei. Please don’t tell my family… but sometimes I really can’t imagine living anywhere else. In fact, the only downside to living in Taipei is that my family isn’t here.
I love to see Taiwan get coverage in the media and Michael links [...]

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