Blogging complications

Two weeks home - and I still haven't gotten an overview of my trip completed.
Our family life has kept a hectic pace with several important birthdays and a couple of urgent event in a short time period.

It will come. It will all get done. I am longing to share!

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Jet lag. Make it stop.

Class E wins the Mystery Activity

This team created a photo story using three random objects. Red Cap and the Wolf- a delightful spin on the Little Red Riding Hood tale.

School hallway in China

Morning

When I walk on the streets, the bricks under my feet are rather romantic. They are old streets of brick. It seems so ancient. These roads are not ancient but the old buddhist temple here is old and is now a mosque. I will find the date of it. I feel I am in some pre 1900 time. I can imagine it. The iron pots/bowls for Chinese medicine are laid out to sell. I can imagine it from long ago. The old men hunched over pushing a cart. Little children run by. Dogs sometimes wandering. Street sweepers with the straw brooms of Kenya and India. The sun glinting on the tile roofs. I feel a part of it. But not. There are the motor bikes, there is some blaring music, I see the western wedding dress shop. The electric signs.
But some signs in Chinese characters seem old even though they are modern.
The hotel restaurant so romantic.
Noodle shops or tea houses so 1950s. The mix of cell phones and old men with long white pointy beards.
I cannot speak to those around me. Nothing is easy. I get in the elevator with the maid. She sees I look her in the eyes. She wants to speak too. We stumble through with our simple efforts but cannot understand each other. I am embarrassed and frustrated but willing to keep trying. We settle for Ni Hao or a nod each day. It will have to be enough.

Switching to China

Setting my sights on China, I am thrilled that I will be able to go over there and teach English. This has been my dream for many years and I finally will get to do it this summer. I hope to take other people over there to teach with me, as well. Are you interested? I am going on a trip soon to learn about the culture in a certain area and just see how life is lived. What a great country. I really love it. Maybe in the fall, I will get the opportunity to do some Mandarin language immersion training. My Chinese friends help me with my Chinese but I barely know anything because I cannot remember over here in English land. I have no idea what all might happen or how it will go, I am just thrilled and happy and ready to make new friends and just enjoy this wonderful world.

TGD closes doors but Amore Ministries OPENS

"The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.." Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. TGD Passes the Baton to Amore Ministries To all our beloved donors and friends, Trinity Global Development sends our love and appreciation.  We are closing our doors, but new doors of opportunity open with Amore Ministries through Jimmy and Christa Horst. Steve and Stephanie worked and prayed throughout the year of 2014 to end TGD on a good note with all the children sponsored in their schools for the entire 2015 school year. That gives Amore Ministries time to ramp up and bring about new projects, such as wells and much needed midwifery support.  Ed and Anita Nenonen will continue in ministry with our Kenyan family. The last six years have been exciting and productive. The TGD building and the computer classes will continue in some form through Bishop Titus. Amore Ministries will have a couple of rooms there. There will continue to be some level of support for the needy children. But new things are going to be blooming! God is doing a new thing! Now it springs up! Do you perceive it? A way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. There is nothing like being in the service of the King. All hail King Jesus! All hail Emmanuel! Our God with us! His glory shines forth forever and ever.           Amore Ministries:     God bless you, Christa Horst Office: 512-331-7020 Cell: 512-554-1988 404 Mirafield Lane Austin, TX 78737 AmoreMinistries@gmail.com       Copyright © 2013 Trinity Global Development, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you are a partner or expressed interest in Trinity Global Development. Our mailing address is: Trinity Global Development c/o Stephanie Rivers 8601 Anderson Mill Rd # 1714 Austin, TX 78729 512-699-2886 NEW EMAIL: sarivers.tgd@gmail.com www.TexasRivers.blogspot.com www.TGDonline.com  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences

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Each one an eternal soul- pray for our Kenyan children!
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