Times of Change

Sorry it’s been a couple weeks since my last post. They have been a crazy 2 weeks. Last Tuesday, August 31, my church’s new pastor, Dr. Dan Williams, and his family arrived from Oklahoma (who could blame them for wanting to get away from there…). This is a very exciting event for the church, as it (hopefully) marks the end of a long period of the church being without a long-term leader. Tomorrow, he preaches in IBC for the first time, and I’m excited to hear him speak. Along with Dr. Dan (our new pastor) came his wife Anita and his son Nathan. They are a very friendly family and it has been exciting getting to know them the past couple of weeks.

Two days after the Williams family arrived, Josh Chee arrived in Hong Kong. Josh is a 20 year old university student from Toronto. He is also now my roommate for the semester. It is very different actually having someone to talk to in my apartment, and it took a couple days to get used to having another person living here. He is doing great adjusting to Hong Kong, and I am excited to get to live with him for the next semester.


Other than the transitions from the past couple weeks, work itself has been keeping me busy. This week, I ended up working close to 50 hours, including speaking at a local Christian school, starting the 2 discipleship groups I’m leading for the semester, teaching at Shillage (our youth group), and planning and running a youth event today.

Another thing I did in the past 2 weeks is sign up for a competitive ultimate Frisbee league. Luckily, I got drafted to the league although none of the people drafting the teams have ever seen me play before. Apparently someone at the draft who knew me mentioned to the captain of the team that drafted me that I’m really tall, and that was enough for them to take a chance on me. The youth pastor from ECC, another church in Hong Kong, is also on my team, and he said he hopes I turn out to be a late round steal. I’ll keep you updated on how that goes.

That should catch you up to most of what’s happened in my life the past 2 weeks. I’ll try to send updates more consistently in the future.