Our biggest family party yet – eight girls finally available at the same time! But nothing went as planned. The games took too long, the homemade cookies tasted terrible, and we stumbled [...]
Right before I came here, I felt led to commit to speak God’s word. To hold nothing back, make no apologies. Just be faithful and speak. Well, I’ve had more opportunities to do that [...]
Connie walked toward her dormitory after class, taking her usual shortcut past the lotus pond. She thought of how much she missed her mother. Her home was a 24-hour train ride away, and it would [...]
After 3 days playing phone tag, Lindsay finally got a hold of me. “Buttercup, I have some good news!” “My boyfriend, Song, became a Christian this week!” Our excitement was uncontainable! Lindsay [...]
A string of colored Christmas lights hung from the ceiling of my living room in a circle around the light ficture. Another string outlined the window overlooking the courtyard, and still yet more [...]
Just last night, I’m sitting in our “Book Club” listening to Hejun talk about what it means to grow as a family member. I’m wishing he would speak more clearly so I could [...]
Pinky arrived home, excited about her great deal on a 50-cent can of spray-on snow for the windows. With no snow in our city, and no signs of Christmas, we decided to do what we could to make our [...]
Broddy, Vash, and I sat on a bench, looking at gold-colored leaves on the ground. It’s the prettiest time of year at our campus. We had just spent lunch with him eating massive bowls of [...]
As much time that’s spent on building relationship, eating crazy food, having early morning and sometimes longer nights; my heart beats that all my friends would experience and know the [...]
They left about 1 and ½ hours ago. There were 8 of them this week. This Saturday was the 3rd of 6 weekly teachings. “They” were the group of believers that have been recognized as potential [...]