stuff for our daughter

We spent some time shopping while in Beijing and found a few cute things for our daughter. The first thing we got was squeaky shoes. They have something in the bottom of the shoe that squeaks when the kid wearing them steps on them. We saw a few kids wearing them in China and they were so cute! We also bought two traditional Chinese dresses for her - the red one is for her baptism.

a few pictures...

These are most of the regulars from our morning group. They came to our class not knowing any English and really wanting to learn. They were so enthusiastic and appreciative. It's hard to explain the wonderful relationships we were able to develop with them! We taught them Psalm 23, the Beattitudes, basic vocabulary words and songs like Father I Adore You, God is so Good, etc. which have repetitious phrases and words.

At the Temple of Heaven

to China... and back again

Well, we've been to China and back. We had quite limited internet access so I was not able to post updates like I had hoped. Right now I'm waiting for all of our pictures to load onto the computer so I can see how they turned out. We've been traveling for 22 hours to get home and we're feeling a bit yucky - I don't think our bodies know what's going on. Beijing is exactly 12 hours later than Grand Rapids time. In our traveling today, we actually gained 12 hours. We left at 9:05 this morning (Beijing time) and were in Grand Rapids today at 7:00 P.M. (GR time). It was hard to do all that sitting. I hope to post some pictures later this week once I get them loaded and resized. More later...