There is a girl named Rita in my fourth grade class who is the last to leave after school every day. This is not because her parents are the last to come and pick her up. Rita loves to stay after class and help put up chairs, clean up, and talk with me. She is a great helper and renews my joy for teaching...
Friday, July 16, 2010
I have written before about my eighth grade student Jack, who started taking Baptism classes. This month I found out that he is continuing to take them and is set to be baptized in July. Since I will be in the United States, he told me that he could take some pictures for me to see...
Monday, June 28, 2010
Listen to an audio interview with Matt Wasmund, who serves the Lord as the strategic volunteer coordinator in East Asia. Matt and his wife Rebecca (Dee Dee), along with their daughters, Lily and Olivia, live in Taiwan. Their work involves overseeing support and programmatic needs for the GEO missionaries at the Concordia School System–Taiwan and for the GEO missionaries in Japan of the Volunteer Youth Ministry (VYM) program.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Daniel first came to Friday night Bible study this year with a friend of his named Frankie. At the time, Frankie seemed like he would be the one from the pair to be more interested in Christ. His English was good. He liked to talk, and was really outgoing.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
“A couple weeks ago, I was driving my scooter to the home of my friends Yule and Yiwen to eat lunch with them. As I was turning left onto their street, another scooter came from behind and scraped up against the left side of my scooter.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
“We begin the 12 days, not with a partridge in a pear tree, but rather some pirates and a Christmas tree! One thing that sets Concordia Middle School in Chai Yi, Taiwan apart from other schools in Taiwan is the emphasis on the Christmas celebration. The students still have school, but they spend their time [...]
Monday, November 30, 2009
“Recently, I [Emilie] have had a few unique experiences within the school office that I would like to share. The environment in our office is usually work, work, work, but sometimes it just takes a change of scenery to get the conversations going! In mid-October, an English speech and drama contest was help in the [...]
Monday, November 16, 2009
“Here at Concordia Middle School (CMS), the religion department organizes small groups for students in eighth and ninth grade. I decided to help with it this year and have a group of nine eighth graders. Some of these are my current students who I have English Bible class with, and others I do not teach [...]
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Dr. Robert Kolb, a short-term theological educator through LCMS World Mission, recently had his first book translated into Chinese and published by China Lutheran Seminary in Taiwan. The book, “Martin Luther: Pastor of God’s People” will serve as a great resource to seminary students and others throughout Asia. Dr. Kolb serves the Lord as a [...]
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Petrea Schwahn, who serves as a GEO Missionary in Taiwan, recently volunteered with a group doing typhoon clean-up in the southern part of the country. In August, Typhoon Morakot devastated Taiwan and other areas with wind, rain, and landslides. Petrea and other volunteers spent the day shoveling mud from a village, where residents had lost [...]
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