Journal Closing Thoughts
August 4, 2008
[Special note, click on the link "asia advocate photo album to the left of this column and then the Hong Kong set to view the photos from this trip.]
Here I sit, in LAX, minutes before starting the final leg of this journey that is, my flight to Portland and home. I hate this part of the journey. I so love Asia, and despite the problems we had in Hong Kong, I want to stay in Hong Kong because it is still Asia. I am already bitter at not waking up and catching the bus to our school, Lingnan Secondary school. Now that I am no longer in Hong Kong and posting from there, I can state the name of the school.
Last night, before I went to bed, I was asked to do a filmed interview for the organization that we go with. After words, as I was leaving, my supervisor asked me if I had seen Terri. Terri was one of the girls on my team. “No,” I replied, asking what was up. My supervisor told me she had sent her to journal by the pool. I walked out to the pool and found her sitting by the pool crying. We talked a bit and she thanked me for helping her over the summer through some problems. She does not have a great relationship with her dad, and it is something she is working through. We had a very good relationship. I hope she learned how to deal with older men through that relationship. She was a good friend over the summer.
Sadie, also has some relationship issues with older men, and I we too had a good relationship over the summer. She left me a note, stating she was glad to be on my team and that she felt she wouldn’t have made it on another team.
The one night in LA, we had together, Jim and Jessica, the married couple, stated that they discovered some things about themselves and that they had grown over the summer. They learned how to trust God just a bit more. They learned about their own weaknesses and strengths.
God put the right people together, at the right time, and in the right place for the right purpose. Students came to God, others are considering it, but there is a bigger picture than that. Hong Kong it’s self, the school we worked at and the sending organization. I am not sure what the future holds for any of us. But I am willing to go on the journey, are you?
I would like to invite you to continue to walk on this journey with me. Please continue to pray for me, for Jim, Jessica, Terri and Sadie, as we readjust to being home. For the school which is a Christian school, for the organization in HK that sponsored us, for the organization that sent us, for HK, which will be very important in the future of Christianity and China in the future, and please do be praying for China, and lastly, for those kids who accepted Jesus, and for those considering him.
[Special note, click on the link "asia advocate photo album to the left of this column and then the Hong Kong set to view the photos from this trip.]
Here I sit, in LAX, minutes before starting the final leg of this journey that is, my flight to Portland and home. I hate this part of the journey. I so love Asia, and despite the problems we had in Hong Kong, I want to stay in Hong Kong because it is still Asia. I am already bitter at not waking up and catching the bus to our school, Lingnan Secondary school. Now that I am no longer in Hong Kong and posting from there, I can state the name of the school.
Last night, before I went to bed, I was asked to do a filmed interview for the organization that we go with. After words, as I was leaving, my supervisor asked me if I had seen Terri. Terri was one of the girls on my team. “No,” I replied, asking what was up. My supervisor told me she had sent her to journal by the pool. I walked out to the pool and found her sitting by the pool crying. We talked a bit and she thanked me for helping her over the summer through some problems. She does not have a great relationship with her dad, and it is something she is working through. We had a very good relationship. I hope she learned how to deal with older men through that relationship. She was a good friend over the summer.
Sadie, also has some relationship issues with older men, and I we too had a good relationship over the summer. She left me a note, stating she was glad to be on my team and that she felt she wouldn’t have made it on another team.
The one night in LA, we had together, Jim and Jessica, the married couple, stated that they discovered some things about themselves and that they had grown over the summer. They learned how to trust God just a bit more. They learned about their own weaknesses and strengths.
God put the right people together, at the right time, and in the right place for the right purpose. Students came to God, others are considering it, but there is a bigger picture than that. Hong Kong it’s self, the school we worked at and the sending organization. I am not sure what the future holds for any of us. But I am willing to go on the journey, are you?
I would like to invite you to continue to walk on this journey with me. Please continue to pray for me, for Jim, Jessica, Terri and Sadie, as we readjust to being home. For the school which is a Christian school, for the organization in HK that sponsored us, for the organization that sent us, for HK, which will be very important in the future of Christianity and China in the future, and please do be praying for China, and lastly, for those kids who accepted Jesus, and for those considering him.
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