Weekend of Fellowship

The Ningbo girls

Some beautiful girls

The Whole Group

This weekend was a complete success. It was wonderful to spend time with our family here in China. The travelers all arrived on Friday evening and got all checked in and had some dinner. Then we spent some time together just visiting.. introducing the people who didn't know each other. It was nice. We also had dessert.

Hangzhou has a new donut shop.. Big Apple Donuts and Coffee. It's amazing!! I can't even put into words.. they are works of art, as are most things in China. They have tons of flavors and fillings and icings and sprinkles. Their coffee is even good.

Saturday we spent time Singing.. lots of time. It was amazing to have 4 part harmony and to be able to sing those songs that we just never get to sing anymore. The discussion time was great too.. we got into some deeper things.. and got to get out some frustrations. It was good fellowship.

The whole weekend as a whole was fabulously encouraging and fulfilling. We got fed, and learned a lot from each other. A complete success.

This was all made possible because of my wonderful family at home, Alpine, and the contributions they make to my work here in China. Thank you so much. It is amazing to be apart of a family that thinks the work in the rest of the world is so important. I appreciate the thougts and encouragement that I receive daily from my family.

Along with the foreigner time this weekend.. on Sunday night one of our students/friends went swimming. It was a Glorious Day made by our Father, and we rejoiced in it completely.. and still are.

This coming weekend we are going to have a retreat with our Chinese family/friends. Some of us are going to get together and spend the weekend in thought and fellowship together. Our family has asked a lot about fasting and the meaning.. so that is our focus. So from Thursday until Sunday night we are going to be fasting and teaching and learning. Please be keeping this in your talks with our Dad. It should be a true time of growth for all of us..

I want to clarify that the retreat was strictly foreigners, but that a couple of our Chinese friends fellowshipped with us for dinner and the like. It was all amazing.