Here are some Praises and Requests from this past month!
Praises:
I am adjusted to my life back here. I have begun to decorate around the apartment and have found lights and decorations in random spots at markets around the city!
Teaching. I have been given another opportunity to sub in the preschool here! I am teaching the same students I was able to teach last spring. I am currently teaching M,W,F at the preschool and Saturday and Sunday’s at the ESL (English as a second language) School. It’s been an amazing opportunity to be able to teach ESL, but I am definitely looking forward to beginning my journey at XIA (Xining International Accademy). I will be meeting with the principal there soon. When we meet we will discuss what grade I will be teaching and I will be given the curriculum to be able to begin looking through that and begin planning for next year!
Flights and School. I have booked a round trip ticket from Beijing to Chicago, where I will then drive out to Denver for the training and school there. I found a ticket for $650 round trip! If that wasn’t Dads provision I don’t know what is!
Christmas Cards: I will be sending out Christmas Cards in the next few days, if you would like to receive one and haven’t already given me your address, please do so!
Requests:
SOME FUNDRAISING: I am currently looking for some one time gifts between now and the Summer. As you know, I will be going to Denver from May-August for additional training in my Work here. That school will cost a total of $3,495 USD.
I will also be looking into getting a car that will cost $3-4,000 USD. As I will be soon leaving my ESL job and going to XIA in order that I can keep my teaching certification through the states. This school however is on the very west side of the city and I live on the very east side, so it would be cheaper and easier for me to get a car and drive to the school than pay for a taxi or take over an hour bus ride each way M-F.
If you would like to send a gift to me you can contact my ‘secretery’ at [email protected] or by clicking the ‘connect with me’ tab. Thank you again for your continual financial gifts and allowing me to continue to do the Work here!
Thoughtfulness. As I am preparing for a lot of new, different and exciting things in this next season, ask for continual growth with Dad. Ask that my heart would be prepared and ready for all the change and that I will continue to be obedient to Him even when I don’t understand everything.
Ask that I would continue to grow in relationships with friends here and that those doors would continue to open.
We have some groups of friends coming out soon! Please ask for lots of opportunities for them within the city and open hearts as they meet with our local friends here.
Lessons from Dad:
Praises:
I am adjusted to my life back here. I have begun to decorate around the apartment and have found lights and decorations in random spots at markets around the city!
Teaching. I have been given another opportunity to sub in the preschool here! I am teaching the same students I was able to teach last spring. I am currently teaching M,W,F at the preschool and Saturday and Sunday’s at the ESL (English as a second language) School. It’s been an amazing opportunity to be able to teach ESL, but I am definitely looking forward to beginning my journey at XIA (Xining International Accademy). I will be meeting with the principal there soon. When we meet we will discuss what grade I will be teaching and I will be given the curriculum to be able to begin looking through that and begin planning for next year!
Flights and School. I have booked a round trip ticket from Beijing to Chicago, where I will then drive out to Denver for the training and school there. I found a ticket for $650 round trip! If that wasn’t Dads provision I don’t know what is!
Christmas Cards: I will be sending out Christmas Cards in the next few days, if you would like to receive one and haven’t already given me your address, please do so!
Requests:
SOME FUNDRAISING: I am currently looking for some one time gifts between now and the Summer. As you know, I will be going to Denver from May-August for additional training in my Work here. That school will cost a total of $3,495 USD.
I will also be looking into getting a car that will cost $3-4,000 USD. As I will be soon leaving my ESL job and going to XIA in order that I can keep my teaching certification through the states. This school however is on the very west side of the city and I live on the very east side, so it would be cheaper and easier for me to get a car and drive to the school than pay for a taxi or take over an hour bus ride each way M-F.
If you would like to send a gift to me you can contact my ‘secretery’ at [email protected] or by clicking the ‘connect with me’ tab. Thank you again for your continual financial gifts and allowing me to continue to do the Work here!
Thoughtfulness. As I am preparing for a lot of new, different and exciting things in this next season, ask for continual growth with Dad. Ask that my heart would be prepared and ready for all the change and that I will continue to be obedient to Him even when I don’t understand everything.
Ask that I would continue to grow in relationships with friends here and that those doors would continue to open.
We have some groups of friends coming out soon! Please ask for lots of opportunities for them within the city and open hearts as they meet with our local friends here.
Lessons from Dad:
- Contentment. I have been really able to just rest in Dad lately and it has been such a sweet thing. He has been showing me that He is continually in control even in the hardest of times.
- Obedience. We are blessed out of our obedience in Him. I don’t follow because I know what is coming, but because I know who He is.
- Trusting in Him and His provision. In Josh Groban’s song Thankful he sings, “There is so much to be thankful for.” I have really begun to see how I trust in Him because of who He is and remains to be, not because of who I am what comes of my choices.