Today was a full day of orientation. We were all up early still adjusting to our new schedule. We went to breakfast at a street buffet just a short distance from our apartments where we had an assortments of traditional foods. After breakfast, Jeff & Sherrill, Blake, Bama, Scott, Buddy & Hilary left for Kaoshoing while the rest of us started our orientation meeting with Glennda. After orientation, we hopped in some taxi's for a quick ride to "Shack's" restaurant. The name is fairly descriptive of the place. It is a small hole in the wall in an alley that has become one of our favorite places to eat over the last four years. We had a great lunch with more food than we could eat.
After lunch, it was still raining (hadn't stopped since we arrived) so we just planned to get wet and took off walking for an afternoon getting acquainted with our area. Glennda showed us the layout and also took us to some places we'll be hanging out with the students we meet and connect with. We also went by two temples where both idol worship and ancestor worship is practiced. We returned to the apartments after our long walk and had a team meeting to plan how we would split up the rest of the week to accomplish what needed to be done.
After a short break, we headed to dinner to meet the Taichung team leader and his family. We ate shaved noodles and fried rice for dinner and a local's favorite.
Here is a preview of tomorrow's events so you can pray for us. We will be prayer walking in the morning in the Beituen Baptist Church neighborhood. This is a church that has a great record of following up with people who come to Christ and reaching out to Christ. We will be doing a week long outreach next week Monday - Friday nights using the chronological Bible stories with this church. Tomorrow afternoon we go to the college and enter the Dojo - for Judo class. We'll start making contacts with students and building new friendships. Tomorrow night we will be at a Bible study for spiritual seekers answering questions and sharing our testimonies and the Gospel.
Pray, pray, pray.
From the far side.
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We are so blessed as a church family to have each of you serving in this way! Be encouraged, each one of you, that I will be praying for your service to be abundantly fruitful!
May Grace be with you!
Tracy Dowty
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