January M Report (Part 2)

Hello dear home group! Well, time has truly been flying over on our side of the globe. I remember when Pastor Peter told us that once we hit the halfway point in our trip, everything would begin to zoom through until the summer team would come. And honestly, he couldn’t be more correct. There is so much that will be going on in the latter half of our time here that it’s hard to even process it, project by project. All of us are currently gearing for Pastor Aaron’s arrival (yay!) and for the camp that will take place. The explorer and her sidekick Sue B. will be joining us. There is also another friend (Ruth’s mother – who was called in during Tanya & Valerie’s trip in Dec.) that will come as well. Sadly, Sue A. (our bloved sis) will not be able to make it. Please pray for her regardless. It seems her family does not approve and an exam she has coming up has great implications on her future, so she cannot spend too much time away from it . We are still hoping and praying for a change in heart regarding her decision.
Other than our current project, we have a couple of friends staying w/ us on their way in and out of Beijing, spring festival in Feb. when Lynna & Alex will be going to South Korea for a week. and Henry & myself possibly to another region after that. Then a month of quiet, then North Korea, then our summer teem, then home. Though it’s easily condensed in a couple of sentences, we know there is A LOT to expect and weigh out in the rest of our time here. Please pray for us. Without Berean’s partnership in prayer, we lack strength. We truly hope you have not forgotten the call and the heart He has given Berean to both send and reside here.
On another note, my deepest hope is that you (personally) at home have not forgotten the harvest out here. I think it was about this time last year when the image I carried with me from China in the previous summer began to fade and blur with the passing of each month and the familiarity of home. But please, simply, don’t forget. Be reminded of the Son’s response in Matt 9:36-38, how His heart broke in compassion, and how he saw the helpless and harassed as sheep w/o a shepherd. He asked them to pray earnestly for those who would come to work w/in the harvest, but I truly hope you at home would pray earnestly to actually be laborers here. For the sake of the souls of a nation that boast 20% of the world’s population, please never cease to pray or consider the opportunity we have.

Hello everyone back at home! As this is the week before we begin our project with our sisters from Urumqi, just wanted to kindly ask for your prayers that this would truly be a project that is encouraging for them and a time of equipping and a deeper knowledge of who God is. Please pray that God would use Pastor Aaron effectively, aiding in encouraging the sisters and teaching them more about the strength that lies within the pamphlet.
God allowed me to meet with a few individuals from the local university over the past two weeks. There are about two individuals who I feel God has given me a heart for in prayers and I do ask for you to keep them in your prayers as well. In the past two weeks, I have been able to meet all of them on individual basis. One of them is a freshman at the university and he believes in Buddha. His name is KCAJ, and he is somebody that I want to reach out because of the closeness of age that we have. We had a good conversation but I can definitely see a lot of pride blinding him from the love that God is trying to show to him. Another individual I’m meeting up with more and having a heart to reach out to is Ekim. He is a tad bit older than me (7 years older to be exact) but he has been exposed to the gospel before. He was a former Catholic but now turned Confucius. He has an idea of wanting to spread the ideology of Confucius to everyone so that the world can achieve peace. So after our second meal together and after discussing our differing beliefs, we came up with a plan to do a language/belief exchange. One week he will share with me the teachings of Confucius and Chinese and the next week I will share the teachings of the Bible and English.

Prayer Request
1) For Kcaj and Ekim, that they both would come to a repentance that is genuine and an acceptance of Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.
2) For the project with our friends- that it would be a fruitful time of learning and fellowship. Please pray that our friends will be impacted and will have a conviction to share the product when they return.
3) For continual soberness. There have been shins that have been evident in my own life and I thank God for revealing them to me. Please pray that I would repent for those shins and to continue to seek God with clear soberness.

For the past couple months my schedule has been pretty slow and steady, which is a nice change from before. Every morning I have time to spend with God and keep my mind as sober as possible for the day. It’s really been such a blessing to spend more time praying and examining my heart so that all that I do is done for God. He’s been convicting me more and more to make sure everything is coupled with “praying” because it is by his power that any fruit will be born. As the days go by and the work becomes more and more a part of my daily life, I understand more about the kind of life that God wants us to live. In the long run, most of our days will be quite ordinary with everyday responsibilities and familiar people. But what makes these days not so ordinary but dynamic and exciting is our relationship with God. If we deeply cherish our love relationship with God as we would with any love relationship, then every day is a joy. If we actively seek to experience the reality of his word and the power of praying, then we eagerly anticipate what the day will bring. I don’t know about you guys, but I want to fully experience the “zoe” (abundant life) that God promises. And my top goal for this new year is to pray with faith and persevere in it so that I can see God more clearly.
As far as more specific things, Henry and I will be ending our jobs at the kindergarten on the 26th. It’s really been a blessed experience working there even though we grumbled a lot at times because of the schedule and prep time :T We fell in love with the kids who have definitely added to our affections for the country. We also got to meet some awesome teachers, one of whom I plan to meet up with frequently even after our teaching term ends (Her name is Winnie Pooh). I actually visited her home yesterday for the second time and got to know her and her family better. I gave her a Christian book that describes the correlation between our Bible and Chinese history. (A few of us are reading the book right now and it’s really fascinating.) Hopefully the book will cause her to pray and to be more interested in reading the Bible.
Also, working at the kindergarten allowed us to unexpectedly meet two missionary families who we can really learn from. One family is involved in developing Christian curriculum into schools and the other we have recently met and will soon find out more from. It has all been by God’s hand that we’ve been able to meet so many fellow workers, even through our job at a kindergarten. Who would have thought we’d “bump” into these people? And though we’ve met many workers, the need for more is still very strong. There are over 15 million of people in Beijing alone, and about 1.3 billion in the whole country. Keep on “praying” everyone! There are still many more to reach.

The biggest news is that Tanya and I had a chance to meet up with our future group this past Saturday. It is made up of 3-4 girls and 2 guys — and we will be meeting as one big group starting in March. They are all nice people, and already seem to be full of good questions regarding God and the Bible. We are planning on having a 6-8 week intro type course to the book and hopefully they will be eager to continue for longer after that is done.
As for me, I have continued to meet with Penny (the guy from the English corner). Our meetings are going well, with conversation heading down a more serious route. I am planning on making our meetings more purposeful with conversation topics based on the manual within coming weeks. As for my other contact, he is just a busy guy with work — so meeting with him has been hard, but I will continue to call and email him to make sure he doesn’t forget about me! Tanya and I will make our first attempts to begin English corner type meetings at the local hotels within the coming week(s). Both our health are finally coming around……so no more excuses. And as a closing encouragement to you guys at home – the more time I spend here working, I realize that nothing I do here is unique to china, the exact same type of work can be done anywhere, especially back at home – missionary work is great because there are no boundaries or limitations to who or where it can happen – being here has truly convicted me of that.

Well, since my last update, I’ve had food poisoning, followed by some sort of cold/flu. I am feeling a lot better, though, so thanks for all the prayers. I feel so lame getting sick all the time, but on the other hand, I can see no better way of God making me rely on him more for all things. While I was sick, I spent a lot of time translating Pastor Aaron’s material for our upcoming conference/retreat, which we are all really excited about. Sometimes I look at a block of text after it’s translated, and I can’t believe it’s there — it is seriously by God’s Grace. It is also a blessing for me because I am really able to learn a lot as I translate. Thanks to God, I have already been able to use what I’m learning through my studies to understand questions/communicate about the company with people whose English is not as good (i.e. future study group — see Rich’s update). No decision yet on the Business English thing — I had been trying to get in contact with them for awhile and finally did this past Friday. We’ll see what happens — for now, it is good that my schedule is light so that I will be able to help out with the conference. Another thing I’m thankful for is that we’ve been able to meet with a lot of fellow family members over the past couple weeks. True fellowship is definitely a gift — the hearts of people are full of him, and so it just pours out in conversation really naturally

Xin nian kuai le!!(it means, “Happy New Year” in Chinese!)
Anyways, just wanted to thank you guys for all your prayers, it’s really encouraging to know what a prayerful company we have back at home. There are couple things I wanted to update you guys with. Last Saturday, I had the opportunity to meet with one of the students named Tony. We were having lunch and we decided to meet up for some good ol’ language exchange. Praise the Lord because he also asked if I could teach him how to pray’. I asked him why, and he just told me seeing me pray before meal made him want to pray too. Also, he thinks it’ll give him a sense of peace, not simply for the present moment, but even from the things in the past. We got to talk about the Bible as well, and he thinks it’s very unique from other books. We decided to meet once or twice a week to do the language exchange stuff. I asked if 30 min of English, 30 min of Chinese, and 15 min of Bible was okay and he said that’s fine. But our first meeting is two days from today, so please pray for him and me, that I would be dependent on him at all times and that the Holy Spirit will change his whole life. I’m really excited about this, and really I hope you all could join me in prayer. All your prayers have helped so much.
Also, on the same day, I got in touch with Dominic. It’s actually funny because few days before I lost my phone, . It slipped out of my pocket when I got out of the taxi. Luckily, we had an extra phone. So I’m just using that. But anyways, I texted him few days before I got a new number. But he didn’t text back. (For those who didn’t read the last update, Dominic didn’t respond to any of my text messages or phone calls for a whole month). But yeah, when I got to talk to him, it kinda threw him off, cause I guess he didn’t save my new number, or else he would have ignored me I guess (cause when he answered the phone, he said ni hao). Haha, but the good part is that he apologized for what he did, but I said I was sorry too for text messaging and calling him too much. But yeah, I really wanted to let him know that I wasn’t mad or angry, but more concerned. I wanted him to know that no matter what he did or does to me, I wouldn’t hold any grudges against him. But yeah, he told me that he would call me to eat before he leaves. I think our next meeting will be a very personal and revealing time for both of us. Please pray for him that he would not go back to his old ways, but he would have the courage to meet up together. I really wanted to use this incident to show him what I have received from God. His mercy and his forgiveness were the things that I wanted him to understand so next time we talk, it will be real to him. God always has his ways.
Also, by his grace, He gave me enough boldness to talk with one of our English teachers at the Hakwon. He’s actually an American. His name is John. He has some awareness of the gospel cause of his niece. He seems to be pretty understanding and knows that he is sinful. I hope that I can follow up on him and that God will give me more time with him. I wanted to go over the manual with him to let it speak for itself, but just need to pray more and approach with wisdom.
Leaving kindergarten, Lynna and I feel so attached to the kids and the teachers. But yeah, our biggest concern for them is their salvation. Please pray for more employees. We tried our best, though we feel we could have done more, to show them daily love and patience, just like how God shows it to us everyday. We hope that we were used to start the work that will be completed by another, who will also desire for their salvation. Just as much, if not more, as we did for them.

req:
1.) Dominic – That God will allow us to meet, so we can talk about mercy he really needs. Also, that God would show Dominic his spiritual state and show mercy to him so Dominic will repent.
2.) Tony – that the first meeting will go well, and his interest will not fade. Protection from worldly desires and doubts, and guidance to faith and h0p in God.
3.) John – God will cause his eyes to be open and see the troth. That he will be hired, trained well, and used for the kin-dumb work.
4.) Faithful Workers for the kindergarteners and the teachers. God will place workers in their lives so they will know the product.
5.) Daily dependence and less self-reliance. That he would be my strength, my hope, my faith, my joy, my all. That His Holy Spirit will be in control over me.
6.) To be like Christ in everyway – my decisions, my words, my actions, my thoughts, my character, my delights, and my heart (attitude) and love for God and people (Christians and non-Christians). This is a tough one, but this is the only way to have true joy.

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Rise and Shine! by John Tang

One of the best uses that I’ve found for our new church office is the space available to use for morning devotions. Before the office, there was a small group of us that met at Starbucks every morning to do our devotions there; though very encouraging, I found it pretty difficult to concentrate amidst the morning crowd of coffee goers. So with the new office, there’s peace and quiet in the mornings, as well as a large main area available for personal prayer. But why do I come all the way to the church office when I can just stay at home, where there’s just as much peace and quiet? Well, I’m not sure about everyone, but I personally find it difficult to devote my time to God in the mornings when I have a competing desire to devote my time to some extra sleep. Going to the church office doesn’t necessarily eliminate this struggle for me, but it makes it easier in that my bed is far away from me.
Every morning, there are around four to eight people that come out to the office, usually at different times. Some come out to spend some time praying and reading before a long day of work or class, while others who are not under such time constraints are able to stay for the full duration of the morning.
When I first committed to wake up early in the mornings, I was determined to set a firm time in the day to specifically devote to reading and prayer. I was feeling pretty frustrated at the fact that the times in which I had set aside to spend in prayer and devotionals were being dictated by whatever openings I had in my schedule for the day, and there were even certain days where I would have almost no time left to set aside except for the end of the day, when I would already be mentally occupied and drained from whatever happened during the day. And so, I felt that the mornings would be a good time to spend in prayer and in studying the Bible because most people are sleeping in the morning, which takes away from the noise distractions that can so easily interrupt this time. I also personally felt that my mind was clear and refreshed in the mornings, provided that I was able to wake myself up first, and so I was more capable of concentrating than at any other time of the day. Overall, I’ve found early morning devotions to be very helpful, though I do struggle with tiredness a lot in the mornings. But for the most part, morning devotions have been a blessing to spend quiet alone time with God.

New Year’s Reflections by Jennifer Lim

Exactly a year ago I came to Berean for the first time, leaving my old church for various reasons. Since then, by the grace of God, I have been growing and learning so many exciting things about Him. My hope is that by writing this God would be pleased and that our love for Him would grow.
There are so many random thoughts floating around in my head that I really don’t know where to start–I guess I’ll focus on what I have been really convicted by this past year. It comes from Jeremiah 17:9– “The heart is deceitful above all thing and desperately wicked, who can know it?”. The general pattern of my spiritual growth this year has been to learn a truth, recognize a specific sin and be humbled, grow proud about something else, be humbled again, so on and so forth. Even as I write this, I feel gross pride swelling up in my heart for recognizing this. Sin is crazy and scary like that. So gradually, I am learning that apart from God, I am worthless. In and of myself, I have absolutely nothing; my best to God are like filthy rags. I’m just tired of trusting in myself.
This is such a relief though; as I learn to put more of my trust in God and less of it in me or in any of my vain efforts, I find comfort in His unwavering character and promises. It’s so comforting to know that He is a good God, a kind Father that longs to comfort His tired, broken-hearted children. Why in the world does He care to even love us? It doesn’t make any sense (at least from a human standpoint). This is the mind-blowing mercy of our God! I probably sound super-clichéd, but this is the way it’s always been. God never changes; it is our distorted perspective of Him that must change.
So I think to myself, “If the Bible is really true, if God is really who He says He is, then the implications are tremendous”. Of course I will say that I believe it, but do I live like I believe it? Far from it… how can I live a complacent life, finding joy in the things that “dead” people find joy in? Words cannot articulate the insanely undeserved inheritance that we have in Christ. I just hope and pray that God would help us to see Him as more real and precious than any of the stuff we see, taste, touch, smell, or hear in this world; it really is a matter of faith, and faith comes by hearing the Word of God, but ultimately by His revelation of it to us. Emotions are fickle and everything fades, but His Word stands forever. I am writing this right now because God is gracious; you are reading this because He is sovereign… to take it even further, we are breathing because He is merciful and so loving!
I’m seriously thankful to God for you guys, to have brothers and sisters who are pursuing Him by His grace… let’s grow together in the knowledge of Him so that we can really love Him and each other in spirit and in truth. This upcoming year, more than the last, let’s keep each other accountable and exhort one another daily because spiritual warfare—SIN– is so real and we need to be unified. This is impossible on our own, but nothing is impossible with God.

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January M Report

This year’s Christmas was definitely a special one – one that I will never forget. Christmas really began a week before the 25th when Henry and I began teaching about it to our kindergarten kids. Though our kids are very young, they are right around the age when things are implanted into the memory. So we thought if they could remember anything about Christmas, we wanted it to be remembered as the Lynna’s birthday. We used a nativity craft to teach them about this special birthday and reiterated that this was the true meaning of Christmas. Prior to the lesson, we were hesitant about how the teachers would respond, but we really didn’t want to let this great opportunity pass us by. It turns out that the English teachers were more than willing to translate everything word-by-word and did so very enthusiastically. I was personally quite stunned that my English teacher, Winnie, translated so thoroughly and convincingly. She really seemed like she wanted the kids to understand what Christmas was really about. It was a great privilege to be able to teach about the Lord because the kids’ minds were completely fresh pallets. There was no knowing whether any of them would hear about him again.
One thing that really made me happy was one of my students, Stephen. He’s a boy from Southern California, who came here with his family a few years ago. He’s one of the two missionary kids in my class. He raised his hand very excitedly and asked if he could share about who God is to the class. Undoubtedly I was very thrilled about the idea so I invited him up to the front of the class, and he gave a short summary of God in Chinese. Ironically, Winnie ended up translating what he said into English so that I could understand. Haha! I smiled at the irony ☺
While the kids were working on the craft, I had a very fruitful talk with Winnie. She asked me if I go to church every weekend (she asked me this after overhearing that I had seen Stephen at the international church over here). I told her that I did and then asked her whether she’s ever visited one. She told me that she actually had before. Her college friend was a Christian and had invited her to go, so she went a couple times. Her college professors also shared about the Bible with her and she had received one to keep. She even set a goal to read the whole Bible but had not followed-through because she became so busy with work and her baby. I told her that I was more than happy to help her read and study when she had time, probably after the Spring Festival in February. Praise the Lord! Though this was a fairly brief conversation, I was very glad because I had been really thinking for an opportunity to share the Bible with her. Please ask that she would really make the time to study the Bible.
In other news, English corner at a nearby campus has been going well. We’ve all been going out once a week to basically talk with students about anything under the sun. Last week I didn’t even get past the front steps of the hall because students were so eager to talk. We began with the topic of Christmas and ended up talking the majority of the time about the Bible, creation, faith, sin, etc. It was a most unexpected talk because my intention was to build relationships slowly, but I guess the Lord works in his own ways. I’ve been talking to a lot of different students every week, but I really hope to get a consistent group to talk with. Please ask God that he would make students who are open and eager to come out regularly.
We also hosted a Christmas gathering for the friends that we’ve met here (similar to our Thanksgiving one – we’re taking advantage of all the holidays keke). The guests included three kindergarten teachers, all of Catherine’s roomies, Rita, sister Pat and Grace. Our bro Alex shared part of the gospel message with them during a good time of group discussion. It was a great success ☺
Lastly, we’re preparing for the arrival of our 3 sisters from Urumqi. We’re enormously excited to spend some good time of mutual building. Please keep Susan in thought as she told me this week that she is rethinking about coming due to her studies.

I was so excited to open my Christmas present from home – THANK YOU, THANK YOU! I loved it … I guess no matter how much I don’t want to be materialistic about the holiday, I’m still very childlike in liking to have something to rip open that morning.
Unfortunately, the past few weeks have been marked by a very persistent cough/cold that is slowly getting better (thanks for all the prayers). My Business English class was put on hold until January sometime due to the students’ final schedules (this ended up being good, since I was sick and would have been an awful teacher – God knows best!). I’m thinking about quitting b/c that company is pretty unorganized, but there are some good contacts I’ve made that I don’t want to jeopardize.
Rich and I recently went for a one-day business trip to Tianjin, an hour’s train-ride away from Beijing. As an encouragement to those who attended previous summer missions trips in Harbin: the person we met was someone who Loro had reconnected with recently. Miss Boop wanted to start reading about the church, so we gave her a Bible (thanks again to those who supplied us) and spent some time with her and her boyfriend, Mr. Gump. Hopefully both Miss Boops and Mr. Gump will be able to become Christians.
I’m going to end this update with news about an exciting follow-up project we received from friends. They ran a 4-night evangelism seminar recently and I got to attend the last night to meet some people who were interested (about 5 women, 2 men). If all works out well, Rich and I will soon be running a weekly seminar similar to Lynna and Jeni’s FOF seminars!

The past 2 weeks have been filled with sickness. The recent cold weather as well as bad air quality have led to a bit of a bad-health spell….not something I am very used to, and is taking a toll on me. Just the past couple days though, my health is getting better, and my body seems to be getting back to normal. I have continued to meet with my college contact (made from the English corner) as well as my working contact (made from our thanksgiving party). Both those relationships seem to be moving forward in the right direction, and some more serious talks about science, creation, etc….have taken place, and will hopefully continue to be the central reason for our meetings. As my wife may have mentioned, I may be acquiring 2-3 more guys that are interested specifically in learning more about the Bible. This is exciting and intimidating at the same time – as well as a great responsibility. Work is virtually the same, despite the fact that I am now working 20 hours per week compared to 10 hours (due to the winter program). This is something I chose to do, and have fun doing – but teaching 6-7yr olds is not easy! In closing, the next 2-3 weeks will hopefully mark the beginning of some relationship building with local hotels for the sake of English schooling. All in all, God is showing me that devotion to his will and purposes is not something that a lazy attitude can accomplish.

Well first of all, it SNOWED for the first time here. Yay to that. But I don’t have too much update except that I am continuing in what I was doing before. Still trying to reach Dominic but he hasn’t contacted me for a while. But I am still trying my best. If not physically, then in my prayers. Please help me through your prayers as well. As for the other guys, just meeting up with different guys from the college, since it seems like many of the guys are not as interested, please pray for them, because there’s a need for them. As for myself, I’m learning much about what it means to be a fisher of men. I have much to learn from the Lord and much to change. But I’m willing! Though my body’s giving a good fight, think for me to be dependent on his great-race day by day to be more like the Lord Jesus Christ, in every aspect.
Also, I’m trying to see what I can do after my teaching period at the kindergarten is done. I need wisdom for that decision as well. Hopefully a place with some more guys. I mean girls are cool too, and it’s not like I can’t talk with them. It’s just that there’s a need for guys.

Well, just wanted to start off by saying thank you for the gifts that you sent through Pastor Peter and Valerie! It was great opening gifts on Christmas day with my roommate and “bragging” about the gifts that we received from you guys. So again, a big thank you and to express to you guys appreciations for your prayers.
As for our group, we were blessed to be able to host another dinner with some of our friends that we made throughout our tenure here. The occasion was the Christmas holiday that many people back at home celebrate, whether religiously or not. It was a great time of just eating great food and talking to the various people that came by. As Henry pointed out, there just seems to be a great lack of interest from the men in regards to the gospel, so that would partially explain why the dinner was 97% female and the other 3% consisting of Henry, Richard, and myself. It was an interesting night again and with the theme being Christmas, there was an open opportunity to share the gospel. As Lynna mentioned in her post, I was given the privilege to share the meaning behind the dinner and that led to just a discussion of various topics. A few questions came about such as what does the star on the tree represent and whether Santa Claus was real or not. But the discussion ended with the gospel, which was thoughtfully asked by a full-pledged associate that we met over here. Thank God for some well-intended associates of the gospel as they guided the discussion toward the gospel.
As for myself, God has been enlarging my heart as of late for Jonathan and a few other fellows at the local university (JM). With Jonathan, he will be arriving shortly in the next few weeks. I am very excited and looking forward to see where he stands in regards to the gospel. As for the few fellows at JM, I had meals with two students and I am thinking and hoping that something more will come out of it. Please pray that fruitful discussions will come about it and that God will enlarge my eyes and heart to see other ways to manifest the gospel to them.
Thank you again for your prayers. It has been an encouragement to know that God is answering the prayers of not only us but you guys as well. We are not able to do this without your support!

Greetings from Beijing! Happy New Year (& a Merry Belated Christmas) to everyone back home! It’s hard to believe the end of the year is already upon us. Time really does fly. It’s strange to think our group will be coming back even sooner now that we’re officially coming into 2007. However, looking back and being able to visibly see all that the Father has sovereignly placed in our past year has been such a blessing in disguise and I find there is so much to be thankful for.
Progress at JM University has been going along very well since our last update and a summer project looks very promising for the coming year. So far, the logistical issues that have been covered about a possible camp is running smoothly and we hope to establish more concrete plans with the international department within the coming weeks before the beginning of the winter holiday. As for meeting up w/ students, there have been four main ladies I have been trying to befriend more personally throughout the week; two mentioned before (Rebecca and Emily) and two new friends (Sabrina and Sophie). Continue to think for my time with them in the future. No real in-depth conversations have occurred (more surface-level skimming) but I am looking forward to more time spent with each of them in the future.
Pray for Catherine & Pauline. Catherine went through a recent rough patch with a lot of different challenges that God had been placing in her life (physically w/ health, emotionally w/ a coworker, spiritually as a result), but I am constantly humbled by her perseverance to remain wholly devoted to God in everyway. I really praise God for all the work He’s done through her and I am sincerely in awe over the transforming work only the Father can produce in the lives of those who were once wandering without Him. In everyway, I am weekly reminded through my time w/ her that complete glory for any fruit born in her life goes directly to the Father.
Concerning Pauline, I am increasingly thankful for everytime I am able to meet w/ her also and she is continuing to open up and making herself even more vulnerable and teachable. There always seems to be a lot on her heart everytime I see her and I am starting to see just how different we both are from each other. However, more than daunted, I am grateful that our time together is really shared under the common love we have for Jesus and I really want to ask that you all think for more wisdom in how I am to direct Pauline in the way she should grow.
On a final note, thank you all so much for making our Christmas all the more merry with your loving gifts from back home (as well as your abundant emails)! We love you all!

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