Hey...What Happened to the Updates????

Well if you have been checking the blog for updates on China, you have probably been wondering why I haven't written. Well here is the answer...

Blogger has this really great feature that lets you blog in a bunch of different languages...Chinese being one of them. So when I got on to the computer at the Internet Cafe the site came up in Chinese, which would make sense since I was accessing it from China. The problem comes in the fact that I don't read Chinese and the layout is a bit different than our US site. I couldn't figure out how to log onto my blog. And even if I could have, it would have been in Chinese. My friend that I was visting said that happens to him sometimes. Sites just don't come up in English and unless you can read enough to figure out how to change the language you are stuck. So I was stuck!

That is the main reason the blog was not updated...the alternate reason is that even if I could have logged on, I would not have had much freedom to write as everything on my blog was subject to being read by the authorities. After realizing that my blog mentions that I am a mission director, it didn't seem prudent to take that risk, even if I could have. My friend in China said that a number of those serving in China have recently been kicked out of the country and I didn't want to risk endangering anyone there.

So in the next few days I will be posting a day by day recap of the trip, along with some pictures and some of the things that we have learned while traveling. Thanks for praying for us. We had a good trip and have gained a new appreciation for all that those serving in China face on a daily basis.