Last Sunday we looked forward to celebrating with the Filipino congregation in Beijing, China. It would also be our monthly Birthday Bash and one of the few remaining services with our Pastors (and friends) who will soon leave for the US. One of the themes of our lively group is “It’s more fun in the […]

My supervisor will return tomorrow from a well-deserved vacation. I will bid her a sincere “welcome back” on Monday morning. Though I was “in charge” for a while, I really missed having her in our busy office. I will have to follow her lead when she is here but that is fine because I love

Susan and I were signed up to go on an Embassy sponsored tour of the Great Wall of China today. We have already seen that part of the Great Wall, but there would be a special lunch and a stop at a porcelain factory afterwards. I like those kinds of outings because someone else gets

I vividly remember hearing the town where I lived in Texas was flooding, while I was deployed to Saudi Arabia. Those were the early days of the internet and e-mail, and I received an e-mail from my daughter saying, “LaVernia is being evacuated because of flooding and I can’t contact Mom.” My daughter didn’t respond

As Christmas presents accumulate around the tree, we hope the best looking one is ours. If we get our desires, we can only be assured of getting the nicest wrappings. Wrappings are the least valuable part of the present and will be cast aside when the present itself is revealed. The goal should be the