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LETTERS FROM THE FIELD

China

It’s my delight to sit down and bring you up to date on life in China. My letters aren’t nearly as exciting as the first few since the newness and unfamiliarity has worn off a bit. We are thoroughly enjoying teaching these kids, however. That is exciting to us! It is so much fun to watch them respond to our love and attention. Like any teacher, we have our good days and bad days, boring days and exciting days; but we keep plodding along planting seeds and trying to build bridges along the way.

As I mentioned before, we teach in one of China’s private schools. It is a prestigious boarding school (grades Pre-K to 12) with an enrollment of about 350 kids. We live right on campus, so it is very convenient in many ways. We only have a two minute walk to our classrooms, we eat all our meals in the high school cafeteria and we get to interact with many of the children on the weekends. Many of the children don’t get to go home on the weekends because they live too far away, so we’ve enjoyed having some of them over and playing games with them. They like Uno—especially when they beat their teachers! Read on . . .

Greetings from Croatia!

For the past 5 weeks we have been driving down to the Bosnian/Croatian border to teach English (as a follow-up to this summer’s English classes) twice a week in Dvor, Croatia and Hrvatska Kostajnica.  The last couple of weeks have been especially wonderful and we have had a turnout in Dvor of 20 students and Hrvatska Kostajnica has had around 15.  We are seeing spiritual growth in some of our students and feel a readiness in both places to offer Bible studies.  We are praying about going there on Sunday afternoon and evening each week to study the Bible with them.

Last weekend two girls who trusted Christ as Savior from my class in the summer of 2003 spent the weekend with me in Sisak.  They had a great time – they even attended choir practice with us and plan to return to sing with us at a Thanksgiving service on October 24th.  They helped me Saturday morning as I taught piano lessons to a couple of students that needed translation and they really want to take piano.  However, there is no way that can happen at present.  I couldn’t get them off of the piano the rest of the weekend. Neither had they ever been to a Protestant church service as there is no church in Dvor.  They were able to attend church in our Brzaj church Sunday morning and were thrilled to be around other believers in a setting they had never experienced.  Their names are Nikolina and Radimirka.

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