Half-way point!

I believe that tomorrow marks my halfway point... not that I'm counting or anything! :)

I really have had a wonderful trip so far, full of interesting, new, and wonderful experiences, but the time seems to pass fairly slowly. I have a hard time believing that it was just over two weeks ago that I sat in the airport making my last few phone calls as I waited to board the plane. God has been faithful, though, and He is certainly working, even way over here in South Korea!

Our team has been afflicted by many difficulties of various kinds and it is obvious that Satan has been at work here, but God is bigger than Satan, and for that we are grateful! Many people have been sick, but have recovered within a day. The immigration police paid us a visit at our first location and threatened to deport us since we were 'teaching' under 'tourist' Visas, but many of the police officers saw what we were doing and said they would try to help us out... we have not heard anything of it since. Praise the Lord! A team member has been struggling with back problems (we are on our feet ALL day long!), but she has received much prayer and even some Korean acupuncture, and was feeling much better today. I actually had some sort of eye infection suddenly on Saturday, but the church we are at this week called a doctor to come visit me, he gave me some sort of antibiotics (gotta love overseas meds... who knows what it is!!) and some eyedrops that seemed to clear it up almost immediately. It ends up that he is normally a missionary doctor in Russia and he gladly gave me the medicine for free in exchange for prayer. I was so grateful, and I feel honored to pray for such a generous man. In fact, his wife drove to the store to buy me the eyedrops while I was still in the office with him... what service! People here are more generous than anything else I have ever experienced. They are truly beautiful people.

All that is to say that the Lord is at work here with us. He is watching over our team, and hopefully He is working on the seeds we have planted so far. Short-term missions are always difficult because you rarely see the fruits of your labor, but we have total faith that we are somehow being used to advance God's Kingdom. Please pray that we are able to make some sort of impact for God's Kingdom in our short time here.

There are too many stories to share in a silly little blog, but trust me when I say that I am happy and doing very well here in this foreign land! I am teaching lots, and learning tons!

God Bless you all... I love you!