{FECA Vision Choir} Report 14

Friday August 2

Rita left us at 7 AM to return home. Like Tina and the rest of the non-churched Taiwan students, they are very open to the gospel and ask a lot of penetrating questions during devotion time. But their parents' wishes still remain a large obstacle for them to come to full trust in Jesus' redemptive work. But we believe in God's time, they will all come to faith. Continue to pray.

We ate breakfast at 7:30 and did our devotion from Mark 8 where Jesus challenges us to follow Him. We left at 9 to visit Willis and Jocelyn Han and their Interserve ministry to mobilize the Taiwan youth to serve in Muslim countries. Willis shared about their life journey and how God called them to recruit professionals in any profession to use their expertise to serve the Lord. He showed us pictures of their time in Kergistan, and we asked them and their daughter Phoebe lots of questions about growing up in a third culture country. The 4 youths, Bel, Jack, Vivi, and Michael from Zuodong church surprised us with a visit. We sang Majesty and Glory, The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Aaronic Blessing) with Jocelyn, who was in Vision for many years in the late 1980's, sing with us. We ate a delicious boxed lunch and left to go to Taoyuan, to a retirement home near where Pastor Obet lives. Because of the extra 4 Zuodong youths, we now had 22 and our bus is a 20 passenger bus so Adam and Terry's We started our program in the basement, got through about half of it with Maddy and Bel sharing their testimonies, when the management wanted to move us upstairs to the courtyard to sing so all the residents on all 13 floors could hear us. So we scraped the rest of our program including our skit to sing upstairs in the lobby. We stood in a circle and repeated some of our songs, Pastor Obet shared a short gospel message, and we finished with all the guys, including Adam, Terry, Michael, and Jack joining, singing Find Us Faithful and the Aaronic Blessing. We then went back downstairs to the AC basement to cool off. Auntie Jennifer bought us all ice cream; we found out Pastor Obet is about to celebrate his silver (25) wedding anniversary so we wished him a happy anniversary and sang the Aaronic blessing to him. We then left to go back to Taipei to eat a banquet hosted by Marshall and Meiring (not paid by Vision). Among the guests able to join us are Yipeh, Dr. Albert Chang's assistant who did so much coordination with Josh in planning our trip here, and Willis, Jocelyn and Phoebe. After dinner, we said good bye to our guests, went down to the metro train station below the restaurant, and took the train back to Tamsui. On route, the 4 Zhudong students got off at Taipei Train Station to return home. We returned to our apartment about 9:30, showered and got ready for bed, the end of a long day.

Willis and Jocelyn sharing about their ministry