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On our trip in Fulong

Well, we have been up to a lot since our last post.  In December, we had some time off so we went on a little trip as a family to another part of the island to get some rest before Titus Project started. During the month of January, the two of us staffed Titus Project here in Taiwan.  It was a great school and we sent out 7 teams to different locations around the world.  They are all on outreach right now teaching God's word in these locations. Our team has 5 people (Keith, Magan, Elliot, and two single guys).  Our plans were to spend the month of February in Japan and the month of March in Taiwan teaching in several churches.

While in Japan we were going to be in Okinawa and Osaka.  Our team arrived in Okinawa on the evening of January 27.  We both taught on the 28th.  Magan started out our time by teaching a Bible Overview seminar to the YWAM staff for some staff training.  Keith spoke that evening at the YWAM community base meeting.  He spoke on the importance of evangelism.  Japan is in great need of the gospel.



(Picture above is our outreach team, picture right is us leaving Japan to come to Arkansas)

The next day, Magan took the team to a church to teach an Inductive Bible Study seminar.  One of our team members was teaching through Galatians 1.  During the seminar, Keith was at a nearby park playing with Elliot.  While at the park, he received some shocking news that Magan's father had passed away suddenly due to a heart attack.  Keith then went to the seminar to tell Magan, and we went to talk to her family.  The next day we headed back to Taiwan. Then the following day we flew from Taiwan to Arkansas for the funeral.  We will be here in Arkansas until March 4rth, and then we will head back to Taiwan to join our team and finish the Taiwan portion of the outreach.

These last couple months have been up and down emotionally. We had some much needed rest in December and then started a very busy season with Titus Project.  Since our plans changed so suddenly, we are now spending as much time with Magan's mother as we can and helping with the legal and financial processes that she must go through.  We appreciate your prayers as we continue to deal with the loss of a great father.  Also prayer is appreciated for Magan's mother, since they were married for 41 years and this is a big adjustment and shock for her.

Aki

I wanted to share a short testimony of a man that we met in our 2 1/2 days in  Japan.  His name is Aki and we stayed in his home while we were in Okinawa.  After Keith spoke in their community meeting on evangelism, that night while in his home, he shared with Keith how much he loves sharing Jesus with people.  He shared that he was in prison for 10 years and while he was in prison, people were coming in and sharing about Jesus.  He said at first he didn't want anything to do with Jesus, but over time God started to soften his heart.  Mid-way through his sentence, he became a believer, and as soon as he got out of prison, he got baptized.  After he got baptized he married the woman that led him to the Lord! :) They did YWAM's discipleship training school and he joined staff to continue sharing the gospel.  I love hearing testimonies like his because often people with the roughest backgrounds understand and demonstrate to others the power of God's grace like other people will never be able to do.  Sometimes it is hard for us, coming from church backgrounds to truly understand God's saving grace like Aki.  We are thankful to have met him and we can learn a lot from his heart for evangelism.  He truly shares with everyone he meets, because he knows the freedom God has given him and wants everyone to experience it.