Welcome to our NEW blog!

Welcome to our new blogsite! Why did we start a new blog? Well, last week, our family changed locations. So, we decided to start a separate blogsite for this journey. (We will no longer post to our old blogsite, but a new blogsite about our old city will be up and running soon. We will keep you all informed of that information as it becomes available.)

As you can tell by our blog heading, our new city is very different from our old one! And yet, very much the same. We thought we'd use this entry to share some things we have noticed about the differences and the similarities. One difference is the food. Remember hot pot from our old blog?It's still available in this city, but not nearly as popular as it was in our old city. (Probably because it's so hot here!) Instead, there is lots of food sold by vendors on the street. Local snacks are easy to eat on the go!
Speaking of food on the go:
Those really are Pizza Hut delivery scooters. There's a Pizza Hut take-out restaurant just a couple of blocks from our new home! (Of course, the prices for Western foods are the same or higher than the USA, so we haven't sampled it yet.) In our old city, we were happy just to have one little KFC. Here, KFC's are everywhere; some even four stories tall!Being in a tropical area means they also grow different foods. No more mutton or donkey jaozi. But, LOTS of fruits like:bananas! Yes, this tree was actually growing in a residential area near our new home.


Another HUGE difference from our old city is the freedom to openly worship.
This Baptist church has several services on Sunday and lots of activities throughout the week. The English-speaking service that we recently attended had over 500 present. And it's right out in the open! Of course, the city is also much more heavily influenced by Buddhism and every other conceivable belief system.

Another big difference is the memorials built to remember famous people from this island's history. This huge building and the surrounding park is all dedicated to Chiang Kai Shek. A far cry from the statue of Mao that reigned over our old city's main square.

But, one thing that has definitely not changed here:masses of people. Everywhere. So many more than in our old city. Millions of people everywhere we look. All searching for peace, hope, and love through materialism, career advancements, false religions, or pleasure. However, these people are still speaking our Old language, have the same Old customs, and worship the same Old gods. So, we keep doing what we did before. We continue to learn the language and the culture. We continue to spend our days looking for ways to point people to Him. We continue to share HIStory at every opportunity.

Our people group has not changed. We have not changed. He has not changed. We're just in a new location doing exactly the same thing we've always done. Please think of us daily as we all make the necessary adjustments to be the very best representatives of Him that we can possibly be.