30 Years In The Making

30 Years in The Making

You read recently of our student and her husband who accepted The Lord this past year and we were privileged to baptize them in the resovoir on this previous trip.

Their coming into The Kingdom was 10 years in the making. 

We are trusting and praying that we will finally see a lady who kept us alive in 1985, and her husband, come to Jesus on this upcoming trip.

I leave for Beijing and Wuhan on July 4. 

In August 1985 we pulled up stakes and moved our family to Wuhan to work as English teachers there that school year.  It was a very difficult year for our family.

We were struggling to get food to feed our family.

Chen Yanping stepped in and rescued us.  The full story is Chapter IV, entitled Walking God's Path,  in Baby In A Box. 

We have stayed friends with her and her husband Liang ever since. They came and spent a week in our home in Kunming and we always visit them when we go to Wuhan.

Chen Yanping has been to America and England. She even attended George Fox [a Christian university in Oregon] as a visiting scholar one semester. She has attended church in both countries but she has never accepted Jesus as her savior.

She has always told us 'I don't understand it all'. Who does?

We do know that Jesus paid a horrible price that we might have life everlasting and that it is a free gift offered to everyone. As far as we know she and Liang have never reached out to accept His gift of life.

Will you please join with us in believing for their salvation.  

Please set aside time for just 10 days - starting now - to pray for hearts to be softened, for ears to hear and eyes to see that all have sinned and all need a Savior; and there is no other Savior but Jesus.

Pray every day for the salvation of Chen Yanping and Liang.

Please do this for just 10 days.

LAST DAYS IN CHINA

BEIJING FUN

Illegal photo standing in front of the Forbidden City gates. We were wondering why no other bikers were riding past.

After six weeks of travel in Hong Kong and China, we ended our spring trip in Beijing. We enjoyed four days of once again visiting China's capital city and historical sights. Teresa Woodland and her two children hosted us for 4 nights. It was fun meeting her children, Kaili and Kaishang, and catching up on news as we all came to China in the 80s with ELIC.

Legal photo as I was actually biking past LeRoy to get the shot

Teri let us use two of her bikes to travel to Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Wufangjing area. Security was very tight near Tiananmen but since we were on bikes, we breezed by. Our only mistake was stopping in front of Forbidden City gates to get a tourist to take our photo. Evidently we were not supposed to stop and a security guard was on us immediately, waving for us to get going. The foreign tourist already had my phone so he snapped a quick photo before we headed on. My maxim for China has always been 'life in China is not always fun but always an adventure".

Dave with Kaishang and Kaili

Teri and Kaishang on the way to school

Sally Chen, assistant to the Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Beijing
She has worked at the embassy for 10 years. She was in our group in WF when she was 16.

Sally, her husband and daughter drove us to the airport to get our flight to Seattle.
Dave was also seeing us off before flying to Kunming.

Kaitlyn came with Tim to get us in Spokane.

No telling when we will have our next adventure in Asia. We've been involved in China for 30 years and it seems like 'home' to us. We just got new 10-year passports and 10-year China visas. We have luggage and go when we next get an opportunity. We will let you know our 'future' plans!

Thanks for joining us on the journey!