Well, I’m home! My Thailand home at
least! China was awesome. It was an incredible experience that I will never forget. It
stretched me physically, emotionally, and definitely spiritually.
Unfortunately
for the safety of the people we worked with who live in China I have to be very
careful about what I post on the internet. However, I can tell you vaguely
about what we did. Everyday, a ministry we worked with would split us into
teams and we would go on prayer walks, teach at schools and speak English with
local university students. My team mainly went on prayer walks and spoke with
university students. We went to what they called “English Corners” and helped
the Chinese students practice their English. It was great. I would spend up to
two hours talking with a single student. We would talk with students about
various things; culture, traveling, family and school. We would build
relationships with them and continue to see and talk to them when we would go
back to the university. There were a couple students who I came to love dearly
and continue to pray for. I also had the opportunity to go to a couple
underground churches and fellowship with Chinese believers, which was incredible
and so encouraging. I was also able to go to a large “registered” church. China
does actually allow churches but they just must be registered with the
government. That means they are closely watched with surveillance cameras and
restricted on what they can preach. It definitely made me way more thankful for
the freedom of religion that we have in America. I got to spend an afternoon going to the slums and playing with the kids at a school as well. Chinese children are absolutely precious!
Below
are some photos that are safe to post. I hope you enjoy them! When I get home I
would love to share the rest of my photos and tell you more stories, but I want
to be wise and not cause trouble for my friends back in China. As for now, I
have started a new week of lecture and the topic is relationships. I feel that
this is going to be a week where God is going to reveal a lot in my heart and
bring healing. I am excited to see how God uses this topic to draw me closer to
Him.
We
still have three more weeks left of lecture and then we go on our long-term
outreach (December 15-Janurary). The staff here still has not let us know where
we are going but I promise to let you all know as soon as I find out!
I
hope all is going well at home and know that I am continually praying for you.
Blessings,
Hanna
My team and I at the university
A couple girls I got to play with at the school
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A poor family we often visited in the slums (notice the skyscrapers in the background) |
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| Probably the most shocking thing was how close the slums where to new development. |
Enjoying an afternoon at the park (ignore the weird Chinese guy
in the background)
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