Today was awesome!!

Wuli, Alexia and I went to Orchid Island. Now this is a first for all of us. Alexia is not fond of airplanes, so we had to reassure her after we got on it that SHE WILL SURVIVE! LOL!! The plane was a 20 seater (I think!) anyway, it was small and LOUD!! Only a 20 minute ride, after we got there, man, my stomach was at the bottom of my neck...ya know that feeling? PRAISE GOD coming back was much easier! Still laughing over the pilot (who I could see very clearly from my seat---only three seats away from him!) leaning over and back and forth to see while we were in the clouds.......goodness....it was like a Taipei taxi but in the air!!LOL!!

We taught our Worth Waiting For program today. The school counselor was SO happy to just talk with us. It is a small island. Junior high  (7-9th grade) has 136 kids, Highschool has 48. Wuli and I taught the junior high (while watching the goats feed on the grass!!LOL!) and Alexia was volunteered to teach High school.

What to say.........Orchid Island is an island (think of an island of Hawaii I guess), where the culture is TOTALLY different. Most of the kids in junior high and highschool live in the dorms and only go home on the weekends. This schools served 4 villages. Premarital sex is quite a normal issue, abortion is a rarity. They are encouraged to have the baby, and then they get married. It is custom for and almost mandatory so to say, for mom to stay with baby for one year. So many girls take care of baby one year, and then they might go back to school.
Unfortunately, due to the extreme boredom, they find other activities to occupy their time: internet and pornography. We discuss that some in our lessons.

This island is funny, they are like "the Taiwan people"....LOL!!! they don't claim themselves as Taiwanese. We have had two moms from this island,so we are making a path.

We first though, met with the Dept of health. First, there was no one there. Originally to begin our meeting at 10:40am, to explain our home, services and a report of the past year, but no one was there!!! Finally around 11am, someone came up to ask (by this time we were making phone calls to figure out what to do now!). The head of the woman and children's social services in Orchid Island came upstairs and asked about when we were to meet. She was like "well, I am the only one....." I quickly said "One is enough, we can have more time to share with you then:-)." She said she was moved that we would think about having the meeting even if she was the only one. We went ahead and started! We went from one to about 10!!! WOW!!  they were so happy to hear what we are doing. We took out our fetus models to show what we use to teach and counsel with and that was a big hit.

It is 5:30pm. We have been back for 30 minutes and Wuli and Alexia are catching up on phone calls.

There have been some things and situations here that have just been emotionally draining! Sadness, discouragement and wounds that have been made. We thank God for prayers from others who support our ministry. We thank God for wisdom He has given us so far to get things out and the open and make things right. It seems that after we had a big meeting on Monday and got somethings out, that God was like "ok, now let's get down to business!" We have a mom moving in on the 25th, one on 3/2. Tomorrow at 9:30am we have a meeting with a possible case. There have been a numerous numbers of phone calls for schools setting up our Worth Waiting For!! So excited about what God is doing!

Our translation of post abortion devotional (from Ramah International) is halfway done!!!YEAH!!! God is so good.

Oh, 2/28 we are painting! Furniture is here......we will see what else we need. I know for sure that there will be a need of $600US for redoing some electric issues for the summer.

Keep us in prayer!