Bloggers' Profiles

ChinaJim is a pragmatic man from the North of Britain. Born sometime around 1980, son of a draughtsman, he prays that he will be able to draw God’s design on people’s lives in Asia. He has five loves:

1. God, 2. Logic, 3. Asia, 4. Church, 5. ChinaJane

Read the blogs and put these in order for yourself. He has made several trips to East Asia.

ChinaJane is a passionate lady, also from the North of Britain. Born a little after ChinaJim. Daughter of vets, she hopes to follow in her parents footsteps by healing broken lives – just people, not animals. She considers she has several tasks in life.

1. Serve God, 2. Love Asia, 3. Build the Church, 4. Help ChinaJim communicate (not just talk!), 5. Introduce ceilidh to Asia

• Spring 2006 - Applying to OMF - analyze me

  
  

  ChinaJim

   

  Welcome to the first of our online blogs. We hope you find it helpful. Having felt a call to live and minister in East Asia, we have been in the application process for OMF International for about one year now. Apparently we are being fast-tracked through the process!

   

  I don’t know who first suggested that OMF stands for “One Million Form...

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• Summer 2006 - Finding out where to buy shoes

  
  

  ChinaJim

  Well, a lot has happened since we signed off our last online journal. You may remember that we had just been accepted by the Scottish Council of OMF. Thus we ended up in the final stage of the application process: a two week candidate’s course in Sevenoaks, Kent.

  The thrust of this course was to give us some orientation and training, while keeping an eye on us to...

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• Autumn 2006 - Deputation, Deputation, Deputation!

  
  

  ChinaJim

   

  You need four clearances before OMF will let you get out to East Asia. The first is the home country clearance, which we recently achieved at the European Candidate’s Course. The second is the field country clearance. The OMFers in our country of destination have granted this to us (probably not fully knowing what they are letting themselves in for!) The third...

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• Winter 2006 - The Penultimate Orientation

  
  

  ChinaJim

   

  Having met all of our OMF clearances, we headed out to the IHQ in Singapore for an orientation course (OC). We gathered with forty other adults and their children for a three and a half week course. Singapore is a really easy place for us Brits to get used to. They drive on the left, speak English and shop in Marks & Spencers. IHQ is pretty plush too, oppo...

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• Spring 2007 - There but not yet arrived

  
  

  Chinajim gives the facts:

  Well here we are, finally in East Asia. No, we’re not yet in our field country but we’re getting really close!

  You must be gaining the impression that joining OMF moves slower than a sedated tortoise. Indeed it’s now been eighteen months since we put in our application forms. However the whole process has been great preparation for going...

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• Spring 2007 - Arrived, but not entirely here

  
  

  MRANDMRSCHINAJIM JOURNAL SIX

   

  Chinajim gives the facts:

  We’ve finally arrived! Here we are, in our field country at last, slowly settling in.

  Due to delayed flights, we arrived here from Thailand at 4 o’clock in the morning! We arrived in the dark at the flat which will be our home for the next few years. The next day, we were able to...

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