2009/02/11

STM from Korea



The week after Chinese New Year, a STM came and was helping the church in Cidu. I went on Tue. night and came back Thur. night. Though the time was short, but I enjoyed spending time with them and working with them. Each morning we had to leave home at 5:30am, arrived church at 6. Then, for an hour, we had morning prayer and worship. Next, we went to a near by breakfast place for breakfast. By the time we are done with breakfast, the vendors in traditional market are already ready selling their stuff. We passed out tracts and flyers inviting people to church for the Thur. night's evangelistic meeting. For people who said they cannot go, the stm just share with them the Gospel. Some accepted Christ, some had to think about it, and some were not interested in listening. Most of the STM team members do not know Chinese. They only learned a little bit of Chinese, but they have materials in Chinese with Romanized pronounciation. So, they just read it from their book. It was encouraging seeing how enthusiatic they are. They won't let go any opportunities, just grab on any person who are interested and talk to them about Christ. There were also time that we all went to night market for street evangelism.
Praise God that on the night when church has an evangelistic meeting, many people came. It was a full house. However, I had to leave before it ended.

Chinese New Year

School had a four days vacation during Chinese New Year and I took the opportunity to go to Taipei to visit a couple missionary who are from Canada with Cantonese background. It was good having to spend Chinese New Year with them. On the day I arrived, we went to visit some places where people make pottery, outside of Taipei City. Night time, we went to the Chinese New Year's night market. It was packed.

We went to a Taiwanese pastor's house for dinner on New Year Eve, then the next night, the pastor's wife made some delicious dishes at home. Another day we went to BigTam and Sin BeiTou where I haven't been to before.

Then, on the day before I left went on a tour to Nantou. The traffic on the way back to Taipei was horrible. When it usually takes 3 hours to travel back to Taipei, it took us 6 hours until we arrive Taipei City. It was because a lot of people traveling back up North on the last day of Chinese New Year vacation.