Happy New Year!

Hello faithful blog readers!

Here are a few pictures that illustrate the turn of our year here at Taipei. We've been greatly encouraged and reinforced by the arrival of a fresh squad of evangelists (the winter missions team) and we recently celebrated the addition of some new converts to our church and the arrival of a new year by God's grace.

Baptisms!
On the frigid morning of December 30, 2007, three new believers were baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and they made a solemn confession of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, witnessed by the members of EBCT and the missionaries from EBCB. It was a precious and joyful milestone in our church as these three individuals took their first public step of obedience to the Lord. After the baptisms we sang "Amazing Grace" and praised God for His salvation. The names of the ones who were baptized are, respectively, Paul, Vada, and Jia-Ning. Please pray along with us that they would "Hold fast [their] confidence and the boast of [their] hope firm until the end!" (Heb 3:6).











Fireworks!
To ring in the new year, we went along with a bunch of EBCTers to the roof of missionary Julie's apartment and watched the Taipei 101 (the world's tallest building) explode with fireworks for approximately three minutes. It was quite a spectacular display!







Afterwards we had a few minutes of fun waving sparking sticks and John took a picture of us waving them around. Purely coincidentally, the pattern looks kind of like "2008." Can you see it?




We're very grateful for God's mercies, which are new not only every year, but every day! Thank you for supporting us through your prayers this year and last year. We hope that this year will be a year of widespread revival and return to the Lord in Taiwan and in America and we look forward to receiving grace to continue in another year of faithful service. May God be near yew this new year!


- The Phos Four