The Dinner

Here are some pics from the Thanksgiving dinner our church had last weekend. It was in a very nice place. The food was good but, in my opinion, not as good as last year (oh how I miss the Finnish restaurant). It was a very location though. It had a nice piano which Stephen and Chuck let loose on. It was interesting to here lounge versions of Jesus Loves Me and Amazing Grace. You also see Leanne and our friend Patty. Everyone was supposed to get dressed up which is why everyone looks so spiffy.
There were some non Christians at the thing. Pray the gospel light came through to them.
We are doing follow up by starting a church games night. Pray some of these people will come out for that. It is at the church on Friday night at 10. It is just board games and people hanging out and playing and chatting.
I had an unexpected morning off today. That is why I am blogging. Enjoy.

Sorry For Taking So Long

I have had a very eventful past two months. No excuse for not blogging but ...well I guess it is. The first big thing was a five day weekend we had at the beginning of October. As I was in the middle of my stats course we didn't go anywhere but it was a nice restful time. One of the pictures is of Stephen and Elizabeth (prominent leaders in our church) as we went for a seafood meal with them during that weekend. We were getting on the ferry.
I was also doing one of my courses for my master's course. It was a Stats course which meant some Math. As some of you know Math is one of my things and so that part was not hard but doing the interpretations of the stats was more challenging. I found though that I learned a lot in the course such as using data to come to conclusions and how to use Excel to do that. I will need that when I do my research I will need those tools and so this course took away some of my anxiety about that aspect of my course. I finished with a 99.8.

The last two weekends I went down to a retreat center near Kenting, a beach community in southern Taiwan. We had a time to go to the beach and do some hiking. The sunset picture is from the beach and the other two were from hiking. It was so nice to go down there because we can get out of the city and breath some fresh air (or fresher air at least). One was a church leadership retreat where we were making some important decisions about the future of the church. Pray as we decide on these things. The second weekend was for the OMF partners and so it was just relaxing. I also learned some interesting stuff about the structure of the Taiwanese folk religion's gods. It was fascinating to see first that they are structured a lot like an army or bureaucracy with levels of complaint. You don't go to a high level god with a small problem. It was quite interesting.
Anyways I had a good rest.
Leanne was up in Taipei last weekend where she worked very hard to help with a Christian weekend called Tres Dias (Three Days). She went to it last year as a participant so was invited this year to help run it. She was very tired but glad that she went.
We will have a Thanksgiving dinner this Sunday for church. It will be done in the same place as Leanne and I had our wedding. That is one of the few places that can do a good turkey dinner. By the way, for you Thanksgiving purists, we are doing it deliberately between Canadian and American Thanksgiving so that explains the weird day. It should be fun.
I hope I have caught you all up.
God Bless