Just wanna catch you up again on some fun things that have happened the past few weeks:Here we have a roof top BBQ- quite a fun time to gather friends and be able to connect with them and they with one another. Students from different univerisities that we have met while here came and shared food together: from hamburgers and hot dogs to fish balls (like meat balls, but fish and maybe some other stuff) and some funny mushrooms, it was a real feast!
Here are a few of us at a HOT POT restaurant to celebrate Joe's birthday. These people have truly become dear friends and we really enjoy fellowship with them. If you haven't tried hot pot... well, you should! Boiling flavorful soup with meat, potatoes, noodles, and more and more. (Yep we got the 'all you can eat' deal!) They had fish balls there too- that and pigs blood - but we didn't partake in that. The pig stomach was ok...
Next, "the girls" on the peak. In case you haven't been to most of the rest of our team's blog, we took our friends to the top lookout site in Hong Kong. It's always amazing to visit there and to see others experience it for the first time. Awe inspiring to say the least...You can see Cat, Cecilia, Malorie, Claudia, Christy, Me, Vicki, and Mary Reading... I love these girls!
This is me, Vicki, and Stella after our Mong Kok shopping trip in front of a statue that i really don't understand.Then a group of us at "high tea" again... with a few new friends.... sharing an afternoon together.
Here we are acting like a starbucks advertisement- we keep this place in business- especially this one, which is by the harbor and has an amazing view. Amazing conversations followed this photo, just in case you were wondering.
Last we have a shot from a wedding Maik and I had the privilege of being a part of: His friend from Germany married a girl from Hong Kong. The wedding was a beautiful testimony to Christ in their lives. I was able to put my dozen bridesmaid experiences to use directing and structuring the ceremony and Maik used his pastoral and preaching skills officiating. I was also pretty proud I was able to hop on and off stage in heels, play guitar and sing and not fall. Success! (oh and we ate goose feet (see I'm holding it with my chopsticks) and sea moss too... traditional Chinese wedding food.. quite exciting!)
In all our goings and comings, activity and conversation, I can say that we are enjoying the privilege of being here in Hong Kong. The Lord has placed amazing people around me to work with and amazing students to share life with. I pray we can continue to grow together and that we will understand the depths of what it means to be "the branches." (John 15)5 “Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing. 6 Anyone who does not remain in me is thrown away like a useless branch and withers. Such branches are gathered into a pile to be burned. 7 But if you remain in me and my words remain in you, you may ask for anything you want, and it will be granted! 8 When you produce much fruit, you are my true disciples. This brings great glory to my Father.
9 “I have loved you even as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love. 10 When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. 11 I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!12 This is my commandment: Love each other in the same way I have loved you. 13 There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me. 16 You didn’t choose me. I chose you. I appointed you to go and produce lasting fruit, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask for, using my name. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
