John: He will be starting work tomorrow so please pray for him to work extra extra hard. He wants to be a good teacher in order to be the best witness he can at his workplace. Also, to build good relationships with his co-workers and boss. Lastly, a smooth transition into working life and for time management.
Matt: He will be going to Hong Kong for a week so pray for safe passage to and fro. Please also continue to pray for him to find a job and to trust in the Lord for it.
Bryan: Pray for evangelism here at EBCT. We go out to campus in the mornings of Mon/Wed/Fri, and ET will be starting in two weeks! Also, I finished my first Chinese class so thank you for praying for my studies. God has been graciously strengthening me and allowing me to study diligently.
Thank you for praying for the safety of EBCT during the typhoon. No one got hurt! Praise God!
Warning: Almost half the pictures are of bugs so don't look at anything past the "Bugs" heading if you don't want to see them. BTW, I hate bugs and insects, but the ones in Taiwan are so interesting and SCARY that I am compelled to take pictures of them (and show you).
Typhoon
Despite there being a typhoon last weekend, we decided to walk around outside and possibly grab lunch if McDonald's was open. Yes it was. We saw an uprooted tree, and MattL decided to be all dramatic and pretend the leaves were Persian forces.

Too bad the wind owned him just a little later.

On Sunday, we had a baptism service and two new believers got baptized! Afterwards, we took some group pictures. EBCB should have at least one on the back wall soon or maybe it's already up.
We are so cool.

We are so happy.

We are so kung fu.

Retreat
EBCT had a summer retreat this past weekend and Ben Saetang was our speaker. Our theme was "A God-Kept Heart", and the theme verse was Proverbs 4:23. We went up the mountains a bit so here was the view down to the cities.

This was a rabbit trash can next to the stairs that lead down into the main room. Yeah, it scared me too.


Here is a picture of the guys and girls.


Here is a picture of the tentmakers making a tent. Yes, that is a tent. Pretend please.

Here is our speaker Ben looking intently for bugs!

What a wonderful segue!
Bugs
These are some of the bugs we saw at the retreat site. Some of us went looking for them so don't worry, we don't deal with these on a regular basis. By the way, all these are what I think the names of the bugs are, not official ones.
We found this grasshopper in the guys room.

We saw a bunch of these little crickets. They jump in a curved path , it was really cool.

We scared this mosquito hawk shortly after taking the picture, and it flew into a spider web.
:(

Here is a dead cicada and Matt Lui's finger so you can see how big it is.

This is a shell of an earlier phase cicada chilling on John's face.

A millipede.

A small spider who found its lunch.

This was a MONSTROSITY of a spider. The legs were THICK, and it could run FAST. This one was hanging out by the piano in the main room. Just the day before, Matt Hauck and I just happened to have one run across the table we were sitting at at Xiao Fu. I saw a big blob of brown scurry QUICKLY across the table, and we both jumped out of our seats with the QUICKNESS.

When you think of bugs/insects, don't you normally think of strange, colorful ones like this couple?

Bonus
This is the intestine and coagulated blood dinner I ate after coming back from the retreat. It was good, but the thought of what I was eating grossed me a out a little.

Please pray for us!
11 comments:
those bugs were gross.
but i liked the grouuppp pictures!
dude i just ate lunch. thats jacked up man
that's intense
totally loved this post!! the bugs look so coooolllll!!! but be careful! and i also love your group pictures. :) take care guys~
-cmyung
joyce, your prayer requests are posted two posts down. clara has hers in the previous post. the guys havent posted theirs in a while and since i live with them, i included them in this post. :)
thanks bryan for your update for all of us! :) woohoo enjoy your week off! ^___^ Live 4 the Lord!
I liked all the pictures...the bug ones were really cool but I don't know if i'd say that if I saw that big brown spider scurrying across campus =)
Press on, brothers and sisters! praying for you all.
awwww i like the group pictures too...
i can't believe those bugs.
thank you for updating prayer requests! praying for you guys :)
i don't like spiders.
i LOVE bugs!!!!!!!
haha joyce looks so funny in the gangster picture bc her hair is so girly with the bangs but her pose/face is so .. mugged.
FOUR DAYS BRYAN FOUR!!!!!
don't get too excited.
Dude, I was totally freaking out over the bug pictures. WHY ARE THERE SUCH MONSTROSITIES?
*ahem*
Anyways, glad to see that all of you are doing well. :)
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