Taiwan Outreach

Well, I am safely back in the Philippines, as many of you know by now. My apologies that I have not posted sooner, I can blame it on nothing but laziness. Although, I did just read Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austin. A rather good read too.

For this trip, I was helming the writing of a daily journal. It’s very general and doesn’t have much of my personality. But, I’ll share a bit of it with you. But first I will tell you my impression of the Taiwan.

Taiwan is very modern, built up country with great public transportation, it is very uncommon to find garbage laying around, and for the most part the food is not too salty or oily. Everything is in Mandarin, which is the language most commonly used nowadays. The older generations speak Taiwanese but the younger generation has great difficulty speaking it. The government recently reinstated Taiwanese to be taught in the schools. The children are for the most part calm and obedient; laid back. The weather was pretty chilly, I wasn’t prepared for such cold! Can’t imagine how it’s going to be for me when I return to the States in March. I didn’t take many pictures, but what I have I’ll post in a differ blog post.

Dec 22, 2009
Day 2

Our day started with breakfast and a meeting; discussing finances and a bit of scheduling. Then we headed to the Rock Café with Karen for an orientation about YWAM Taiwan let by Rebekah.
We ate a late lunch out because we toured around the town and did banking. We then went back to our apt for a tiny rest and another meeting.
The ministry of the day was going go the Rock and meeting with people. Some of us passed out business cards inviting people to come up to the Rock for FREE coffee and conversations. We served drinks to the people that went up to the Rock and others of us sat down for conversations to be spoken in English, the reason many people were coming; to improve their English.
We went back to the apt at night and had yet another meeting, making out day very long; even though today was the shortest day of the year.

New name for YWAM: Youth With A Meeting!

Dec 25, 2009
Day 5

Today we woke up a bit before six to eat breakfast and have a meeting then meet Karen at the MRT at 7:30 am as Manny had heard, but! We weren’t supposed to meet her till 9:30am , so instead we walked along the river taking in the sites as we waited for 9:30am to come around.
This time we didn’t take the MRT, instead we rode a bus to the hospital. It felt a bit like a continuation of our Nursing home experience. The hospital is called MacKay memorial, named after the first missionary in Taipei. It looked similar to a mall at first, very fancy. There were scriptures on the wall too. Our performance went well and we had about 15 people watch, 20 people came and went and six people received Christ.
In the evening we went to the Living Mall, to do the Nativity scene again, we performed three times with about 230 people including children watching.
We rode the MRT back to Danshui, it was wet and rainy. Eww! We thankfully took a taxi back to our apt. and had leftovers for dinner. We were very hungry because we hadn’t eaten dinner yet and it was late.

Dec 30, 2009
Day 10

Busy day today, first we went to an elementary school and performed for the entire school which was about 100 students and teachers in total. It was a very interactive time with games and fun songs.
In the afternoon we ate at the duck place again then had a little time to talk to bikers that were biking through and all around Taiwan.
The after school kids; that come everyday for tutoring at the church had a half day for school, so they came in the afternoon instead of evening. They were very excited to hang out with us and were very loud. But we had a good program from them, it was fun but hectic.
We finally went somewhere else to eat for dinner, we had chicken.
What a great day.