• Eat Pray Man Woman
    30/05/2008 9:00 am

    Seventeen people sit in a circle. Most of them have been at work all day and grabbed something to eat on the way to the meeting place. They are aged between nineteen and forty-five, students and professionals. They joke around, read a few emails from friends, introduce newcomers, then get down to work. Their work this evening, as it is every month, is to pray for the people of Taiwan and the work of OMF.
  • Christmas Carnival in the Park
    12/03/2008 9:00 am

    There is a small park near where we live where we do prayer walking and outreach to working class people. Surrounded by a morning and afternoon market, it is always a busy place. Because we want to be part of the community, we often spend time in the park. Sometimes we just sit there and chat or play like everyone else. People get used to us and feel we belong there too. Last year we wanted to go one step further and planned a big park activity – a carnival!
  • Looking for a Home
    12/03/2008 9:00 am

    Bethany Children's Home has been "home" to well over three hundred children in the years that I have been here. When they leave us, for many, it is still the only home that they have. And, yet, it’s a strange kind of home. The actual place may be the same but the people there have changed. Is it still ‘home’? Is it still where they feel comfortable and able to find help?
  • Making Prostitutes Beautiful
    07/01/2008 9:00 am

    Wanhua is known for its “teashops” especially those in Three Waters Street. Men visit and pay women to drink tea or alcohol with them. Other services vary according to how much the men are willing to pay and the women are willing to offer.

    It hadn’t been easy to befriend the ladies waiting outside the teashops for customers, but with the hot weather it was even harder. Most of them stayed inside, enjoying the air-con. So we prayed that God would open doors and He did...
  • Christmas at School
    07/01/2008 9:00 am

    The school in the west of Taichung was beautifully decorated: Christmas lights, trees, plants, cards, Christmas blessings….., but how many of the 4,000+ students there really knew what Christmas is all about?