Our trip has started out well. We have all arrived safely in Taichung. While the plane rides were long, they were uneventful, aside from a minor medical emergency one passenger suffered on our flight from Denver to San Francisco. Paramedics were called and they met us at the gate and removed him from the plane before we were allowed to deplane. Thankfully, United Airlines had a representative meet our group to escort us to the international terminal because of the short amount of time in between flights. We deplaned, boarded a bus across the tarmac, entered the international terminal, walked to our gate and walked on the plane. We were hungry, but the timing couldn’t have been better.
Once we arrived in Taipei, we found our bus driver (who spoke no English) and started on our way to Taichung. I did my best with a little Mandarin-English translation guide to try and get us some water and a bathroom stop, but ultimately had to resort to sign-language, which it seems works in most languages.
We arrived in Taichung about 9:00 p.m. local time and were met by Glennda Cook, our IMB Missionary and some of our friends from past trips along with Jeff Ritter’s group who had arrived earlier in the day. After a brief greeting and some quick phone calls home, we are headed to bed with a full day of orientation and prayer walking tomorrow. Jeff Ritter’s team will leave about 9:00 a.m. for Kaohsiung on the southern end of the island for the rest of the week.
Here is one update I need to share. Our contact at the PE college where we will be working some this week and all of next week has arranged for us to be in classes where we will have contact with somewhere between 500-600 students!!! Isn’t God awesome. We were hoping to be in the three or four classes of 30-40 students we had contact with before. Pray for these students that the Lord will open their hearts and eyes to see.
From the far side of the world.
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