Today is the last day of school for all government schools in Taiwan ~ YES! Tomorrow is July 1, and July means summer holidays! Pray for Advent Church Children’s Summer Camp (Holiday Club) tomorrow Friday July 1 and Saturday July 2 ~ being led by our students, who are very busy in preparation! Very very busy! Continue reading Summer Holidays a-coming!
AND we lived to tell the tale ~ and all still smiling, just! Can’t believe I’ve never been to Hehuanshan ever before, because it’s just, oh so famous! It’s Taiwan’s highest road, linking west and east coasts, and gets heavy snow in winter ~ so it’s become a major tourist destination especially for families wanting to show their children some real snow. And in summer the place is full of flowers, and it’s lovely and cool. End result is horrendous traffic jams all day every day. But it’s so beautiful that who can deny people a chance to come and see … Continue reading 合歡西北峰 Hehuanshan North (3,422m) and West (3,145m) Peaks ~ must see, must do!
Click on the link below to see a copy of my latest CMS Link Letter, written a few weeks ago and published a few days ago…. Lee, Catherine 69 Continue reading CMS Link Letter # 69
Not just a day, more like Moving In Week with the students helping on Thursday….. Then more students helping on Friday, and then on Saturday, anyone available was welcomed to Advent Church to sort out, clean up, throw out and move in! Since the old kitchen was demolished and the construction started 2 years ago, all the kitchen stuff and musical instruments etc have been in storage in the back of the church during that time. The Sunday School and choir have also moved to the new centre. On Saturday about 30 people turned up for a day of hard … Continue reading Advent Church Centre Moving In Day!
RIP Jo Cox, MP for Batley and Spen, tragically killed yesterday in a vicious act of violence. St. Thomas Church, Batley is one of my beloved CMS Link Churches, full of great people, the salt of the earth. When I last visited Batley in April 2015 it was in the midst of the election campaign in which Jo Cox won the seat for Batley and Spen. Praying for her family, friends, and the whole community of Batley at this sad time. This is my blog post from that visit to St. Thomas Church, originally posted on April 13, 2015…. https://catherinelee234.wordpress.com/2015/04/13/cms-link-visit-to-st-thomas-church-batley-w-yorkshire/ Continue reading Reblog: My CMS Link Visit to St. Thomas Church, Batley, W. Yorkshire
The best month of the year in Tamsui is definitely June ~ forget yesterday’s torrential rains and focus instead on today’s blue skies, blue sea and all the flowers, and especially at Dr. George L. Mackay‘s old clinic (now museum and coffee shop) and the old church – peeping through the gap in the buildings below. Tamsui is oozing with history, every old building tells a story. And these buildings and the Mackay statue are just a small part, there’s plenty more to see! So do come and visit and check it all out for yourself! Continue reading Tamsui 淡水 in June!
Torrential rain all day yesterday, so much rain in fact that Advent Church buckets and bowls all had to come out to collect the water dripping through the roof ~ ‘n we collected a whole lot of water! Raining cats and dogs it was all day ~ though we collected lots of water, fortunately we didn’t catch any cats and dogs…. Continue reading Rain, rain and more rain….
Every year at Dragon Boat Festival time, Tamsui and Sanzhi hold massive parades involving hundreds of gods, deities, idols, lion dancers, horn-blowers, drummers, firecracker-lighters and participants from the temples all around. On Friday it was the turn of Tamsui, yesterday was the turn of Sanzhi. This is known as 大拜拜 (da bai-bai) ‘Big Worship’. ‘Bai-bai’ specifically refers to traditional religious worship in the home or temple, involving offerings of incense and maybe food to the ancestors or deities. Here in Sanzhi, people have been preparing for days, setting up small altars in the doorways of their homes or business. That’s … Continue reading Sanzhi 三芝 Parade of the Deities
Have bike. Old bike. Very old bike. Old heavy bike. Old heavy bike that only works in first gear. Old heavy bike with big strong basket in front. Good for shopping. Good for going to market. Old heavy bike needs to go to Keelung. New owner lives in Keelung. New owner wants old heavy bike for shopping in local market. But new owner cannot ride to Keelung. Dragon Boat Festival. Day off. 4:30 am. Dark. Me in yellow. Me on bike. Very old heavy bike. Setting off for Keelung. In first gear. First gear all the way to Keelung. 40+ … Continue reading To Keelung 基隆, the hard way….
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