Hi everyone!
It’s been one month
already! It’s hard to believe how much I’ve done since I got here and how
quickly time has passed.
Snap Shot:
- Service with missions training completed, teams sent out
- Language learning progressing slowly, but steadily
- Community of all kinds developing and being discovered
- Dance teaching and rehearsing with success, but intensifying
So....What Have I Been Doing?
Probably a better
question would be, what have I not done? During the week most of my energy was
focused on helping with my church’s missions training, but this week all four
teams are headed out! It's been so much fun to watch people here get excited about sharing God in their home countries and overseas.
When I’m not serving at
church, language learning takes precedent. On the recommendation of several
other foreigners, I’ve been meeting with a Chinese language tutor. Of course, I
also get lots of practice using my Chinese with everyday tasks like putting gas
in my scooter, buying food, and making friends.
Developing friendships
and reaching out to the community here has also been an adventure. I’ve been
gifted with several bilingual friends who have been equally gifted with a
desire to push me to learn Chinese. J I’ve enjoyed getting to know them and
serving with them.
Dance has also been a
wonderful way to reach out to people. Every week I teach a free dance class to
anyone interested in attending. Within class I get to redefine dance (within the
context of loving Jesus), provide physical training, develop their ability to
dance together, and teach them how to communicate clearly with dance. A few of
my students are trained in ballet, modern, or hip hop, but all of them are very
open to learn and grow together. I’m very excited to see what other opportunities
dance will open up.
In addition to my
everyday business, I’ve begun dance rehearsals for SHINE (annual youth
conference, ~1,500 attendees in July). I’d love prayer for divine creativity as
choreography has never been easy for me.
I'm also prayerfully considering Tainan for longer-term service. Community, out-reach, and work opportunities are all possible here, but to make a finally decision quite a few factors (most importantly a God confirmation) are necessary.
So to sum up my prayer requests:
- Continued physical health and peace through culture shock
- Favor with man and wisdom in how to best share Jesus stories
- Future decision-making regarding staying in Taiwan long-term
- Chinese language learning and retention
Bless you all!
- Kirsti
Questions or thoughts? I'd love to hear from you! Email me at traveling.kirsten@gmail.com
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