The start of a new ministry

Moving chaos

Well, we have recently moved to a new location in Taiwan and are starting a new ministry in YWAM.  This is probably the biggest transition that either one of us have ever made in ministry.  We are no longer working with an already established ministry but are now starting everything from scratch.


Saying Goodbye to all of our friends in the Taipei area was difficult for us.  We had our last meals with different friends and were able to say goodbye to our English class that we taught for around four years.  The meal that we had with our Advanced English was the most meaningful for us because we have spent a lot of time with them over the years and they really mean a lot to us.  They each to took a moment to share kind words, special memories, and encouragement with us and even gave us gifts to remember them by.  We were so blessed and we will miss them dearly.

Our English class

A needed coffee after a very long couple days of moving

This last 2 weeks have been a lot of work. We had to change our address on all our bills, pack up our old house, load everything up on 4 rented trucks, drive 7 hours, and then unpack everything in the new location.  Now that we are in our new city, we have had to figure out a lot of little details that we never had to do in our other city. (we always moved into previously rented YWAM apartments.) for example, how to get gas hooked up to our stove, so that we could cook (we just got it today! Praise God).  We still have to figure out where we can buy all the things we like to eat.  We are feeling pretty tired, but are excited to start looking for a location for our English cafe that we plan to start in April.  It will be an extension of the Rock Cafe in Taipei that we have been working at for the last 5 years.

Our boys are doing really well now.  When we first moved, they were not handling the transition well.  They would cry and wake in the middle of the night and ask to go home.  It was hard for everybody, but we worked hard to make them feel more at home, and they have since been able to settle down.

The boys helping to get the house ready

We are currently trying to collect all the pictures that other people took from the moving process.  So we hope to put together a short video of the whole experience.  Many of our YWAM friends helped with the move and we are so grateful.  It was a lot of work and we couldn't have done it alone.

 This week we are hosting a DTS outreach from our home base in Taipei.  They are at the end of their two month outreach.  We feel blessed to have them here with us because they are going to be helping us clean and paint our outreach house.  It is in need of some TLC, and after they are finished it will be in better shape for hosting future teams.