Colossians 1:9-10 “For this reason also, since the day we heard of it, we have not ceased to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so that you will walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, to please Him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.”
Our time in Xiamen has been restful so far. We have spent a lot of hours playing games and catching up on sleep.
These mahjong tables were the best! They automatically would stack and shuffle the tiles for you. No delays in playing! We went to a hotel to play mahjong. You can rent a room with a table and play for a few hours. I found out this hotel alone has 18 mahjong rooms!
For those who asked for our prayer letter before the trip, I have an update I will share when we are home that was pretty spectacular!
Prayer Request:
I have a serious prayer request. Yesterday, after the kids got back from badminton, Juyi got a call that her dad had a major stroke. He asked not to have life extending things done to him, so Juyi flew home early this morning. She was able to get the last seat on the flight to Taiwan. I hugged her and told her how God is as providing for her even in this difficult time. He saved a seat for her so she could get home to her family. Please be praying for Juyi, her mom, and siblings during this difficult time. Also pray for their salvation and that God would continue to reveal Himself to her.
Juyi was so worried about us and kept apologizing. I told her that her main job was to get home and be with family, God will take care of us. We did try changing our tickets to make things easier, but it was going to cost $11,000!!!! That is almost as much as I had budgeted for this whole trip (like 3x the price I paid for our 4 round trip tickets). We will stay in Xiamen extra days and then take a 9 hour bullet train to Changshu (7/8). We will rest a day there and pack our bags. Juyi’s husband will take us to the airport on 7/10. Our flight had an overnight layover in Hong Kong. We had tried seeing if we could just catch our flight there, but they said if we didn’t show up to Shanghai, they would cancel our tickets, so to Shanghai we will go. I’m just giving these details to you can pray for us. I feel pretty confident navigating the bullet trains since we have done it a few times, but we will be on our own without an interpreter. Once we get to Hong Kong, it will be easy. Thank you for following our trip across China and praying for us! We have about two weeks until we arrive back in KY.
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