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• Sex, suicide, study - the challenges of being young
  04/01/2012 9:00 am
  Young people in Taiwan face many challenges: school pressure, dysfunctional families, domestic violence, loneliness, temptations... They look for help, they long for friendships, but sometimes they look at the wrong places. Because of their family involvement in folk religion many of them know the power of the Evil One disturbing them, torturing them and using them to harm themselves others too!
• Training Grassroots People
  16/12/2011 9:00 am
  From the ages of 15 to 35, RL was a drug addict. Then he met Jesus at the Operation Dawn drug rehab center. His life was changed; he kicked his drug habit and was reconciled with his family members. Out of gratitude to God, he now wants to share the gospel to others, especially grassroots people. To equip himself, he enrolled as a full-time student in our Alliance for Grassroots Training Ministry (AGTM) institute...
• A message of hope in Wanhua
  15/11/2011 9:00 am
  “Come in!” smiled “Paul” as he opened the door to his small apartment. This was our fourth meeting to talk about Christianity. Paul is a working class man who used to own the restaurant next to the park where our Wanhua Hope Team does outreach. He is a spiritually minded person who is looking for something real to hold on to. Other team members have known him for a long time, giving me an opportunity to meet and follow up with him.
• New town, new beginnings, new stories
  12/09/2011 9:00 am
  Every child is told that when they write a story it must have a beginning, a middle and an end. Right now I feel as though I have been placed at the beginning of many different stories. We have just moved to Chiayi, entering into a new neighborhood which has given us great opportunities for meeting new people. We pray and hope that each person we have met is at the beginning of their own wonderful story of salvation.
• A Typical Market Family
  16/08/2011 9:00 am
  I met the three Lai girls four years ago. They came with their father, Mr.Lai, to a park carnival which we held in the market area. With his red-stained betel nut lips he said, “I’ve been in this market area for 20 years, but this is the first time someone has run an event like this for our community.” A few days later I met him again in the park and he told me, “If my three daughters want to become Christians, they can. For me, I can’t become a Christian, because I am a Buddhist, I need to continue the ancestor worship.”
• Learning to Love our Neighbors
  20/07/2011 9:00 am
  A few months ago we moved from Taichung City to the working class district of Taiping. We were told that our first and most important task was to get to know our neighbors. In doing so we have discovered some challenges in loving them as we ought.
• Three Shopworkers – Three Stories
  16/06/2011 9:00 am
  A goal of our ministry is to reach out to shopworkers who work in the large department stores and malls in Taipei. Many are from broken and abusive homes, suffer depression and self-image issues, and have financial difficulties. Their busy weekend working schedules make it hard for them to attend typical Sunday morning church. The shopworker ministry caters to their schedule by meeting in the late evenings, after they finish work. The vision of the ministry is to establish small groups in every major shopping area in Taipei, meeting in coffee shops and fast food restaurants.
  
  Here are the stories of three typical shopworkers...
• Ministering to TCKs at Morrison Academy
  15/04/2011 9:00 am
  Morrison Christian Academy’s purpose statement is to meet the educational needs of the children of missionaries throughout Taiwan. Morrison has a dedicated Christian staff in three campuses who long to see their students know the Truth, pursue excellence in learning, fulfill the Great Commission and be a caring community. Hearing the stories of how Morrison students are impacting their world for Jesus is challenging and inspiring.
  
• Prayer Walking in the Market
  23/03/2011 9:00 am
  The first month we commenced prayer walking in the wet-market, we went for a scheduled prayer walk in the evening. As we stepped into the market, to our surprise, it was full of people. It was smoky and was ten times noisier than the morning market. Soon we found out there was a 210m long parade to celebrate the birthday of one of the local gods...they seemed to be representing the evil one by saying “This place belongs to me!”
  
• Jesus the treasure hunter
  20/01/2011 9:00 am
  At the Pearl Family Garden, we can see that the Lord is a skillful treasure hunter. The women we have befriended in Taipei’s Longshan Temple area would be the last to see themselves as valuable. They are used to wearing an array of labels: tea shop women, gamblers, debtors, disabled, drug addicts, homeless, widows, prostitutes, plus a barrage of slurs that I won't write here. Yet in face of the contempt that the ladies have towards one another and themselves, Jesus is persistently seeking His pearls.