From 2/1/09

Hi friends! I just wanted to share with you a bit about the latest happenings in our preparations for the trip to Taiwan. The countdown is at 5 and a half weeks…we’ve accomplished a lot, but we still have a lot to do. God has been so good though!

This weekend, we had our big garage sale. Thank you so much to all of you who donated! God really showed how big he truly is, even through something as mundane as a garage sale J We started at about 1:00pm on Friday setting up and organizing for the next day. We had a nice amount of donations, and we thought, “Oh, we are going to have a nice garage sale”. Then, bagful after bagful, truckload after truckload began to arrive. I cannot even tell you how much stuff we had to sell. At 7pm, we had an entire driveway (and it was a LONG driveway) and a whole front yard FULL of nice things to sell. People were stopping on Friday night asking if they could shop, and when they found out what we were doing, not only did they shop, but they went home and got more things for us to sell. We even had one lady who is Jewish that brought things for us to sell when she found out what we were doing. If that isn’t God, I don’t know what it is! We had our first customer (besides the ones on Friday evening) at 6:15 am and we had sold almost everything by 12:00pm for a grand total of $2171.10. How cool is that! Your prayers and donations are so appreciated! God is using you to make this trip possible, and you will truly be going to Taiwan with us.

We are going next week to Chinatown here in Houston to get a small taste of the sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of Taiwan. Pray for us as we continue to explore what God wants us to share with the ladies in Taiwan that we will be working with.

I tried to put a picture of our t-shirts here, but it is a pdf file, so I can't figure it out so I'll just describe it :) Our shirts will black, with a very pretty swirly design in grey, a white heart, and in red letters will say "Humble to Taiwan" on the front. On the back in red lettering will be 1 John 4:19 in Chinese.