Village Bible Church || Aurora | Indian Creek | Sugar Grove | IL

We arrived in Beijing on Saturday night after 11 pm, and didn't get settled into our rooms until 1 am. We were met in the airport by Qiao (pronounced Chow), and Carla... (whose Chinese name is really Yam). Team members had some prayer time up in their room before going to sleep. Most of us got 3 - 4 hours of sleep before getting up at 5 am, and ready for departure to the airport @ 6 am. We had a box lunch on the bus back to the airport.

We all have cameras, but Heidi is definately our resident photographer... she has taken the most pictures by far.

We had a 2 hour flight to Nanchang, and then a 3.5 hour bus ride to Heng Feng.

This morning I read Psalm 19, which says in v. 1 "The heavens declare the glory of God"... and in v. 3 "There is no speech where His voice is not heard"... and that includes this wonderfully mysterious Chinese Mandarin tongue we have been hearing all around us.

It is great to know that the Lord's voice is already here... "pouring forth speech". God himself is reaching out to these precious people. It is great to be able to be a part of this missions to spread His love.

Our tour guide Carla gave us Mandarin lessons on the bus ride to the airport. If someone asks us: "How are you doing" (Nee How Ma?) a good answer would be (How), which means "very well".

(Wha Ay Knee) = I love you... which is the message that all of the team members wish to send back to family members and friends back home who are praying.

We just got done with our Sunday night "prayer service" up in the hotel bedroom... All of our team members, plus Qiao spent some time going through the Scripture and praying. It is great to see the team coming together. We can tell we've got a lot of people lifting us up to the Father.

We head to the orphanage first thing in the morning (Monday here, but Sunday for you) to begin our ministry there. Everyone is very excited to meet the babies. We met the orphanage director today over lunch and dinner. His name translates as Mr. Yellow.