Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, when the moon is believed to be at its biggest and brightest for the whole year, has just been and gone, and it was quite some festival! As it fell on Thursday, October 1, so Taiwan had … Continue reading 中秋節 Mid-Autumn Moon Festival Celebrations 🌕 St. James-Style!
A grey grey day in Keelung, on Taiwan’s NE coast, as always! Grey city, grey weather. But particularly so today as the country surfaces after yesterday’s Typhoon Meranti, and prepares for tomorrow’s Typhoon Malakas. We’re in a kind of typhoon-sandwich…. Today is Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, the first day of a 4-day holiday weekend, when the moon is supposedly at its best and brightest all year ha ha ~ no sign of any moon round here! It’s grey grey grey with rain rain rain and more rain! In Keelung today, my arrival coincided with the arrival of the huge Golden Princess … Continue reading A grey Mid-Autumn Moon Festival @ Keelung!
Typhoons come, typhoons go, trees crash down, but thank God for His great mercy! And yet another major typhoon has delighted us with its presence ~ this one, Typhoon Dujuan, was combined with the super moon and the high tides of the lunar eclipse, to make it potentially more dangerous…. Taiwan’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival was celebrated this weekend, with a 3-day holiday. When we packed up on Friday, we knew there was a tropical storm out there in the Pacific Ocean – but it was heading north to Japan. By Friday evening, it had changed direction more towards Taiwan, grown … Continue reading Typhoon Dujuan 杜鵑颱風
It’s Mid-Autumn Moon Festival today, one of the most important festivals of the year, celebrated with barbecues and moon-gazing, visits home and moon cakes. We even have a day off on Monday to make the most of it all. Yippee! It’s also the weekend of Taiwan’s annual North Coast Kite Festival at Baishawan Beach 白沙灣 just a mile or so up the road from here. Must-go! Ah yes, and to top it all, we have a typhoon on the way! Hopefully the last of the season. Typhoons mean rain and wind, and certainly no moon-gazing, but the wind is of course … Continue reading North Coast Kite Festival 2015 @ Baishawan 白沙灣 !
And packed out the church was! Kids and parents, church members, local people, university staff and students, visitors, and members of the nearby Bunun Indigenous Church ~ all here at Advent Church last night for our annual community concert, always held around the time of the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival… Dancing, singing, performances on trumpet, violin, piano, guitar and xylophone ~ a great atmosphere, and many new friends made ~ all part of our community outreach programme… Only one big splash during the concert when a lady in the dancing group so busy taking photos didn’t see the baptismal pool ankle-deep … Continue reading Advent Church Community Concert 社區音樂會 2014….
And St. James’ Church, Taichung annual Moon Festival BBQ was another great success! Officially called the Mid-Autumn Moon Festival, but autumn feels a zillion years away ~ it was sooooooo hot and humid ha ha! And of course the moon is supposed to be full, and at its best and most beautiful for the whole year, as but the actual full moon and the Moon Festival is not until Monday we have a few days to go yet. Not that it stopped us enjoying ourselves…. smiles all round! So Happy Moon Festival everyone! Continue reading Happy Moon Festival!
Catherine Lee 