1. Mother and Daughter at the entrance of Belize Christan Academy 
2. Cindy sharing with highschoolers
3. Shop visitation
4. Owner of a gas station
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Greetings from Belmopan in Belize. Praise the LORD, finally we are able to get on line to write to you!
Our Belize team left San Francisco Airport early in the morning (12:30 AM) on Tuesday 09/30 and arrived in Houston around 6:00 AM (two hour time difference). Rev. Yang from LA and sisters Eva and Emily from Portland joined our team there.
After seven hours' rest, the airplane took off and carried us to Belize City in Belize. Brothers and sisters from both Belize City and Belmopan picked up our two teams. Because of the medicines taken into the country, we had to go through custom check, which took about 30 min. The medical team (team A) headed to Belize City and our team B drove to Belmopan, which is about an hour and half away from the airport.
Along the way, all we could describe was green - green pastures, green trees, small houses scattered among them. Even though the way headed to the capital city, it was just like a small country road - completely different from the highway or free ways we are familiar in US.
Along the way, two Johnnies had a warm discussion about the outlook of this STM trip.
Rev. Han shared with us how faithful God was in answering the prayers of local churches. He is pasturing 8 churches now in Belize. A few years ago, the Chinese church in Belmopan was in its spiritual peak, but there were not too much outside support. Since two years ago, a lot of coworkers left the city and the church faced a bottleneck for further growth. It was right at that time, the leaders started to pray and it was right at that time, God started to send STM teams from North America (Canada and US) to labor with Rev. Han's team. We are all in His wonderful plan.
Thanks to God's mercy and your faithful prayer. The first day here in Belmopan, we were not exhausted by the hot weather, nor were we became the victims of mosquito’s banquet. We spent the night on the prayer mountain. Rev. Han's sister and a local Belizean brother prepared a local dish for us - it was quite delicious.
Brother Johnny (Chiang) has a beautiful new art shop in Belmopan. He has set aside the entire week to labor with us. He is the key leader in the church and has spent a lot of time building up good relationship with the communities here, therefore a very good guide to lead us to different shops/stores/restaurants and families for visitations.
This morning, we had an unexpected assignment to have a chapel worship service in Belize Christian Academy from 8:45 AM to 10:00 AM. There were about 100 high school students joined the service. Mrs. Hsu shared the song "My Hiding Place" and her personal journey in hiding in the LORD. Cindy gave her testimony in how she came to trust in the LORD. Pastor Young delivered a short message on the meaning of GRACE after we offered the hymn Amazing Grace.
Starting from 10:00 AM till now (4:00 PM), we visited about 20 groups of Chinese folks from all kinds of walk (restaurant owner, gas station owner, drug store owner, builders, internet owner,...). Most of them were very polite to us and agreed to come to our Friday night's evangelical meeting. It was so nice that we have such a variety in language skill - Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Toishan and English. When we opened our tongue with the language people speak, the distance became closer right away, and you got more understanding and smiles.
King Kuen was here in June and knew quite a few places we should go. She also got up very early to prepare oatmeal for the entire team. Piazza is the team's faithful photographer and has her camera every where she went - of course her favorite scene is flower. Rev. Yang will lead a discipleship training tonight, we need to prepare for that now... Thank you again for your prayer support.
Blessings,
Mark
Greetings from Belmopan in Belize. Praise the LORD, finally we are able to get on line to write to you!
Our Belize team left San Francisco Airport early in the morning (12:30 AM) on Tuesday 09/30 and arrived in Houston around 6:00 AM (two hour time difference). Rev. Yang from LA and sisters Eva and Emily from Portland joined our team there.
After seven hours' rest, the airplane took off and carried us to Belize City in Belize. Brothers and sisters from both Belize City and Belmopan picked up our two teams. Because of the medicines taken into the country, we had to go through custom check, which took about 30 min. The medical team (team A) headed to Belize City and our team B drove to Belmopan, which is about an hour and half away from the airport.
Along the way, all we could describe was green - green pastures, green trees, small houses scattered among them. Even though the way headed to the capital city, it was just like a small country road - completely different from the highway or free ways we are familiar in US.
Along the way, two Johnnies had a warm discussion about the outlook of this STM trip.
Rev. Han shared with us how faithful God was in answering the prayers of local churches. He is pasturing 8 churches now in Belize. A few years ago, the Chinese church in Belmopan was in its spiritual peak, but there were not too much outside support. Since two years ago, a lot of coworkers left the city and the church faced a bottleneck for further growth. It was right at that time, the leaders started to pray and it was right at that time, God started to send STM teams from North America (Canada and US) to labor with Rev. Han's team. We are all in His wonderful plan.
Thanks to God's mercy and your faithful prayer. The first day here in Belmopan, we were not exhausted by the hot weather, nor were we became the victims of mosquito’s banquet. We spent the night on the prayer mountain. Rev. Han's sister and a local Belizean brother prepared a local dish for us - it was quite delicious.
Brother Johnny (Chiang) has a beautiful new art shop in Belmopan. He has set aside the entire week to labor with us. He is the key leader in the church and has spent a lot of time building up good relationship with the communities here, therefore a very good guide to lead us to different shops/stores/restaurants and families for visitations.
This morning, we had an unexpected assignment to have a chapel worship service in Belize Christian Academy from 8:45 AM to 10:00 AM. There were about 100 high school students joined the service. Mrs. Hsu shared the song "My Hiding Place" and her personal journey in hiding in the LORD. Cindy gave her testimony in how she came to trust in the LORD. Pastor Young delivered a short message on the meaning of GRACE after we offered the hymn Amazing Grace.
Starting from 10:00 AM till now (4:00 PM), we visited about 20 groups of Chinese folks from all kinds of walk (restaurant owner, gas station owner, drug store owner, builders, internet owner,...). Most of them were very polite to us and agreed to come to our Friday night's evangelical meeting. It was so nice that we have such a variety in language skill - Cantonese, Mandarin, Spanish, Toishan and English. When we opened our tongue with the language people speak, the distance became closer right away, and you got more understanding and smiles.
King Kuen was here in June and knew quite a few places we should go. She also got up very early to prepare oatmeal for the entire team. Piazza is the team's faithful photographer and has her camera every where she went - of course her favorite scene is flower. Rev. Yang will lead a discipleship training tonight, we need to prepare for that now... Thank you again for your prayer support.
Blessings,
Mark
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