Carl Lance

The Storm

     The strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere made landfall on the Mexican coast.  With high-tech tracking and computer models to predict its likely path, this storm didn’t come as a surprise. There is a long history of damage from hurricanes in that area and the people know death and destruction can take those […]

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Celebration

     On Sunday we enjoyed the 13th Anniversary celebration of the Beijing International Christian Fellowship, Filipino Congregation (FILCON).  Filipinos really know how to throw a party and the small room was decorated with banners and balloons.  Many members wore bright yellow t-shirts displaying the newly adopted logo.       Filipinos love to sing and we are

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Unmerited Favor

     We were enjoying a long Holiday weekend in Beijing, China when I got a phone call from my boss, telling me I had been promoted!  I knew the promotion list was supposed to come out, but I didn’t expect to be on it.  It wasn’t something we didn’t particularly need and it won’t have

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Another Day

     Thursday was the first day of China’s “National Day” holiday.  I wasn’t interested in celebrating the communist takeover of this country, so for me it was just another day off from work.  The air pollution had been “cleaned up” either by the wind or by government intervention and it was a bright sunny day

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What to Write About

Normally, as I begin to write, I have a topic and an idea of the direction the story will go. Today is different. The LORD hasn’t told me exactly what to write about, so we will see where this takes us. I will only go if He leads, because I don’t want this to be

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