Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #67 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Missionary Moment Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 67 Location: Ventureville, USA  Subject Explored: Being Zealous for God     "I still can't believe you gave Tat Shing my Bible. That's huge, Addison. Way, WAY huge!" Adeline gushed.   "Yeah," I shrugged. "But Tat Shing and I have both...

Read Entry #64 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #65 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 65 Location: China Subject Explored: New Creations     It's amazing. The first thing I wanted to do when I saw Tat Shing was hightail it out of China, but now that I'd gotten to know him and Jai An, I found it hard to say goodbye.   "Thank...

Read Entry #63 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #64 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 64 Location: China Subject Explored: Forgiveness   "Tat Shing, can we talk?"   Tat Shing looked up, surprised. "Why, yes, Addison."   "Um..." Even after I prayed (and prayed and prayed and prayed), this was really hard....

Read Entry #62 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #63 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 63 Location: China Subject Explored: Forgiveness    "So, Tiananmen Square is where it all started for you?" I asked Pastor Li.   "It's where it started for my father, and for that, I am grateful. But no, mine was...

Read Entry #61 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #62 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 62 Location: Tiananmen Square Subject Explored: Hope    I had to get away, and for the first time in my life, it wasn't the explorer in me saying that. I needed to put as much distance as I could between me and Tat Shing....

Read Entry #60 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #61 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 61 Location: China Subject Explored: Judging Others   After two hours in the car (that's two hours of silence and worrying that Tat Shing wasn't actually taking me where I wanted to go), we arrived at Pastor Li's village.   "Addison...

Read Entry #59 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #60 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 60 Location: An Airport in China Subject Explored: Grudges    So there I was, safely on the other side of customs when I began to think that I was on the Chinese version of "Candid Camera" and that second guard was in on the...

Read Entry #58 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #59 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Missionary Moment Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 59 Location: Chinese Customs Subject Explored: Our Advocate    I was way, WAY nervous as I walked through the customs checkpoint at the Chinese airport, but I hoped my anxiety wasn't drawing unnecessary...

Read Entry #57 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #58 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Missionary Moment Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 58 Location: Ventureville, USA Subject Explored: Extravagant Love    "Please, Ad? You've just got to take the Bibles to China! Mom won't let me go."   "Look, Adeline, there are other people who do...

Read Entry #56 Advancing Native Missions presents... IN THIS UPDATE Travel Log - Entry #57 Dig Deeper Gear Up Prayer Pocket Ask Adeline Twitchy's Travel Tips     Need curriculum? Check out Advancing Native Missions' www.The1040Expedition.com Travel Log Entry Number: 57 Location: Ventureville, USA Subject Explored: Using Your Gifts   "Addison, did you hear Chen Fai at lunch today? He said that there are 45 million believers in China who don't have Bibles. 45 million! More and more people are...

A “First Timers” Impression of China:   In 2009, my wife, Shelley and I visited China for the first time.  For the most part, all I knew about China was what I learned in school and heard from my mother who often said, “Eat all of your food.  After all, there are people in China who are starving”.  And of course, I knew what I was told by the media as I watched the news; that they rival the U.S. as a Superpower, are on track to pass the U.S. economically, etc.  We had a whirlwind opportunity to do “touristy” things like seeing the Great Wall of China, Chairman Mao’s tomb, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, etc. It is a beautiful...

“Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this:  to visit orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself unstained by the world”.  (James 1:27)  In 2009, during our first visit to China, we found that the Bethel Orphanage for Blind Children in China is an oasis of pure and undefiled religion.  The Bethel or Jici Orphanage, founded by a French couple, Guillaume and Delphine Gauvain, is located on the outskirts of Beijing and is home to about 50 children with various degrees of visual impairments. Many of the children are also victims of physical, sexual or emotional abuse as well.   This was a special destination for Shelley...