China meeting information

Tonight was our next to the last China meeting.  We spent some time on video conference with one of our alumni that serves with CRAM.  He gave us an idea of some of the things that will be happening while we are on the trip.  Here are a few details you might be interested in.

We will arrive at midnight after approximately 27 consecutive hours of travel (losing 19 hours on the way over there to the International Dateline, which we will get back on our way home).  The last leg of our journey is a 65 mile bus journey (http://tinyurl.com/c9go8h).  We have to get up in time for a worship service at 7:00 am the next morning.  Then we will eat breakfast, followed by travel to a place where we can simultaneously see North Korea and Russia from within China.  We will be on the run the whole time we are there.

Part of our work will be teaching the faculty of their school how to speak some English.  This is important because their teachers know little to no English. 

We will spend a couple of hours a day at the orphanage and will take some of the Hope School students out into town just to spend time with them.  Most of them are not Christians and they know we are.  Yet we have to be very careful not to be too outspoken with them.

We were told tonight that we have to take our own toilet paper when we are out in public, because the toilets often have none.  Better to find that out now rather than later.

Part of our work will be with concrete, although it's pretty cool there this time of the year.  We will hopefully be able to visit "Broken Bridge," which is between North Korea and China.

Time is flying.  I'll try to keep posting regularly.