Missionary life is constantly challenging, often difficult, and rarely dull.
This blog is maintained by the OMF missionaries working in Taiwan. It records our thoughts about mission work, reports news and activities, and lists our prayers and God's answers...
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Pearl Garden
Pearl Garden
Women of shame
Drawn into a life of pain
Covered with a blanket of lust
No hope, no escape
A life of addiction, of hurt
Slowly devouring their souls.
A string of priceless pearls
Do they realize there is ONE
Who can redeem their shame
Heal their pain
Cover them with a blanket of peace
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Temples, Temples Everywhere
According to a recent report Taiwan has 14,993 temples, an increase of over 3,000 in the last year! That is one temple for every 1,500 people in Taiwan.
This is not news to us as we constantly see new temples being built. But the official statistics help confirm our gut feeling that folk religion here is alive and f...
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Typhoon Morakot
Major rescue and clean up operations continue in southern Taiwan in the aftermath of Typhoon Morakot. Very good summaries of the current situation can be found on the BBC website here and here .
The areas worst hit are mountain communities in the south and ea...
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Typhoon update and how to help
Impact on Taiwan
On August 7, 2009 Typhoon Morakot struck Taiwan bringing extremely heavy rain to the southern part of the island. Over 3 meters of rain fell over several days resulting in the worst flooding in Taiwan for 50 years and severe mudslides in mountain areas. Entire villages were wiped away and roads leading to the most devastated areas were destroyed. The worst...
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Church planting and fear
Just Imagine…
Imagine that I told you, this evening we will go out to a bar and find some people and share Jesus with them. I would also imagine all day you might have butterflies, and try to think of as many excuses as possible to get out of going. You might even begin to feel tired, or feel like you were coming down with a cold….or suddenly remember all the things you did wrong...
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Online idol worship
Folk religion is going high tech in Taiwan. One example is the "Oh, Good God" website (sorry Chinese only), where you can choose from a great range of gods to choose to bai-bai (worship).
There are detailed instructions about the right attitude, how to make offerings and say prayers and instructions for...
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Indonesians in Taiwan
Today we took a friend to eat at a newly opened Indonesian restaurant/grocery shop. We asked the owner why there were so many Indonesains around that area. He told us because of the mosque in the little lane behind his shop.
We were surprised to hear this as we have lived in the area for a long time and passed the lane many times. But as it is a dead-end we had never been down it...
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Refusing to Bow
About 2 years ago, a new believer was slapped in the face by her mother for refusing to bow and worship her father-in-law at his funeral.
Recently this young woman's mother went with a friend who wanted to have her palm read. Though the mother did not go to get her fortune read, the fortune teller looked at her and told her that something bad was going to happen to her and her fa...
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H1N1 used by God
The hallway lights were covered with black and purple cellophane. Fake bloody limbs and skeleton faces adorned every door. Classes had spent the last few days learning this week’s “special” English vocabulary: ghost, witch, devil, haunted, vampire. Everyone was preparing costumes, game stations, and movies for the stay-overnight celebration today of All Hallows’ eve (2 days early to accomm...
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