Greetings from China

Okay, first of all, I am here - in China - can you believe that? I am in China...Wow! Plus, what is even more amazing than that - I flew here. And just as I knew He would - He gave me peace and a great flight. I was though absolutely beat when we finally got to our destination. If you remember, I was up at 2:00am typing on my blog just a few short hours before our first flight - I was up for almost 48 hours - with only a few short naps on the plane.

This morning we got up early - 4:00am the time here - and 4:00am feels the same here as it does back home - and if anyone reading this knows me very well - mornings are not my thing. In my quiet time this morning I was reading out of I Corinthians 16 and verse 19 says..."The churches of the Asian province greet you." That blew me away - I am in Asia - and the church here greets me - I'm telling you that was for me - pretty cool.

Today was a tour day and incredible - we had a great time checking out the sights and doing some shopping - I actually bartered and think I did pretty well - but shopping here is nothing like home - you don't know a salesperson until you've come here.

For lunch we ate at KFC which just cracks me up.

We have had some pretty cool things happen and we will share more about that later - check out the team blog. We got to meet some of the children later today with their nannies, we also met the director, and the doctor - amazing people with absolutely incredible hearts. The kids were full of smiles and wanted to play and be held - their faces just lit up when we showed up to meet them.

Tomorrow will be a day of working here. The team blog does have a couple pictures posted so be sure to follow along there.