Saturday began with a tour of the neighborhood within Sanchong where New Blessings Church is located, including a temple right around the corner. Our missionary, Kalan, led the team in a time of training which included “survival” Chinese and the history of Taiwan. For lunch, the we divided up and were welcomed into the homes of various church members, followed by an afternoon of fellowship together. In the evening, the team enjoyed a scenic ride up a mountain on the Maokong Gondola.

On Sunday, the team worshipped with New Blessing Church and Dave and Beth gave a great promo for the testimony that they’ll give on Thursday about marriage. After lunch Jared and Kristen led a class in parenting. Following the class, we were able to set up the two spaces for the Bible club programs this week. The day was capped off with dinner with a few people from the church to have a traditional Taiwanese winter meal of ginger duck soup. There were parts of the duck that we’ve never eaten before!