Our day started at mid-day with meeting the family of the mother that received the Holy Ghost Sunday night in service. Keep in mind she is coming from a background of ancestry worship. But we give God the glory for the good work that has begun in her.
The mix was interesting: One that spoke zero English (the husband), two that spoke zero Chinese (Sister Tiffany and myself) and two that speak both fluently (Chris and the mother). Add four toddlers overdosed on Hershey candies and we had ourselves a real interesting meal! At one point I was left at the table with husband (English name Jacob). It was pretty funny. He couldn't speak a word of English and I'm a little rusty on my Chinese. It was a long 10 minutes of silence and awkward grins. And I thought my precious mother-in-law ate slow....after two hours dessert was just starting.....
The husband is making progress. He is a little more reluctant to be baptized and embrace truth but he is coming along. He has thrown away his idols and that is HUGE start. God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him!
Tonight is the closing service. If the Lord allows, I will be preaching "Get a Grip!"
Tomorrow (Thursday) will be spent getting it together to come home. And I think a couple of tourist sites here in Kaohsiung may be on the schedule. My flight takes off Friday morning at 9:00 which is 9:00 pm Thursday night at home.
Finally, I give God the glory for sending Typhoon Nuri to the south of us. No offense to the Philippines that are taking the brunt of it. My flight out heads north to Tokyo so we should be able to escape its wrath. Thanks be to God!
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Hey! I finally got around to reading this! I thought that I would tell you that Jacob got the Holy Ghost about a month after Rachel! We are still doing a new converts course with them. We have restarted an English Bible class/get together at my house and Rachel has been bringing her students from the English school she teaches at. Last Friday, we had 30! people to show up! Praise God! Oh yeah, actually, I do speak quite a bit of Chinese and understand about 85%, I kindof thought it was useless to practice on you! Thank you for everything you did while in Taiwan and we look forward to the day taht you and your wife can return!
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