Youth Group-Asian Style

Everywhere we've ever lived, we've taught youth groups: Cowan, Palmer, New Salem, Rogers City, Central Parkway, Hillcrest, Good Shepherd, Trinity, and now in Asia. We've driven buses, slept in bunk beds, met in parking lots, gone on m-trips, etc. etc.

Our current youth group is using about 40 Chronological stories

to learn HIStory from Creation to HIM.
This week, we were on the story of Baby Moses.

So, we had alot of fun with baby games. This relay included a mama,

a baby Moses,a bib, a bottle of warm soda, and a burp.

This game used the idea of Hot Potato and musical chairs

but passed the jar and tasted the baby food instead.

It was the first time for most of them to ever

taste baby food from a jar.

And, they were not too excited.

But, there's always one in every crowd.

You each remember who you were?

This is Jason. He was delighted to be the final contestant

and receive the rest of the jar of baby food as his prize.

We are amazed at how much fun these middle school

and high school students are having learning HIStory.

We're actually still having alot of fun ourselves.

Asian BSF Retreat

Three days, two nights, 2100 English-speaking Asian BSF leaders from at least 15 different locations (Korea, Japan, Taiwan, HongKong, Beijing, Shanghai, Singapore, Philippines, Myanmar, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Australia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia), all together for one purpose....praising and learning more about HIM. It was an incredible experience for me.

The hotel and convention facilites were beautiful.
In the nighttime and the daytime.

The weather was perfect for swimming,

although no one had time to hit the pool.

And the food was delicious.

But, the best part was traveling with wonderful friends.

Learning more about HIM together.

Aren't these Vietnamese women beautiful?

And these Korean women?

After only a few days of sweet fellowship and inspiration, we were all encouraged and refreshed to return to our respective locations and keep telling men, women, children, and preschoolers the good news of HIStory!

Priceless Faces

Recently, our schedules have been very full with travel, office work, trainings, language classes, homeschool, and daily life. We usually spend our days doing study, preparation, and emails. We spend our nights and weekends teaching HIStory, three nights inside of our home and three nights outside of our home. Sometimes, it gets a bit overwhelming. (We now have a chart so we don't forget which lesson we just taught to which group :) But, when we look back over the recent photos of our friends, we are ALWAYS encouraged to continue full speed ahead on this journey.

We hope you will agree that these faces are priceless!