Enjoyed a long but mostly uneventful flight to Taiwan. I slept pretty well the first night but not at all the second.

On our first day here, Malia worked on getting credit at National Taiwan Normal University for credits taken at Liberty. She also got her Fall tuition paid for her second year in the Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language major. I worked on the several presentations I will be giving next week.

The activities currently scheduled:
9/08 Church in Taichung
9/09 Doctor appointment
9/10 Chinese Staff devotions
     Women of Worth class
9/11 Middle school chapel
     Eye doctor appointment
9/12 Women of Worth class
9/13 Women of Worth class
9/15 Church in Taipei
9/17 Middle School Fire Safety
     Women of Worth class
     WorldVenture prayer time
9/19 Women of Worth class
9/22 Church in ChiaYi
9/24 Return flight to Portland

Not scheduled yet:

• meetings with a number of friends including a new missionary family that arrived in Taiwan last month
• trip to Puli to help at the Clubhouse
  (an outreach to high school and college students)

PRAY FOR...

• the girls in the Women of Worth Class to be receptive and learn some principles on the topics of relating and dating. Also for me to present with clarity and that the girls would find it helpful.
• my speaking at middle school chapel on the school's theme for this year "Rooted" 
  (Principal's welcome letter
  explains the theme)
• the Chinese staff, most of whom are not Christians, as I get to share with them through a translator at their weekly devotions.
• me to get sleep and get over jet lag quickly
• Malia's next year at university here without us also being in Taiwan