July 2024 was quite an eventful month for us in Taiwan ~ and was marked at the end of the month by the arrival of Typhoon Gaemi🌀 ~ from which Taiwan is still recovering. The worst typhoon to hit Taiwan … Continue reading Welcoming Katherine & the Lovely Cooper Family from the UK to Taiwan! 🌍❤️🌏
#AdventWord #Watch #守望 ‘It is like a man going on a journey, when he leaves home… commands the doorkeeper to be on the watch.’ Mark 13:34 ‘Few experiences rival the attentiveness that comes when my children welcome me or their father home after time away. They ask when the plane will land, when the car will arrive, and when the train will pull into the station. They look out the window and ask excitedly with every approaching headlight, “Is it yet?! Is this it?!” This Advent we, like the disciples and generation after generation of believers, echo their childlike eagerness … Continue reading Advent Word 2023 ‘Watch’ 守望
Taipei Zoo’s baby panda Yuan Zai 圓仔 is charming the whole country, but she doesn’t half like to sleep ha ha! Queues and queues of people (limited to 19,200 per day) have lined up to see her for 10 minutes of viewing time during the Chinese New Year holiday as she made her public debut, and there she is (or not, if she’s often hiding) fast asleep…. Taipei Metro kindly shows the current panda viewing times and available tickets on electronic noticeboards on some of its platforms around the city – and so there it was that I came to be in … Continue reading Yuan Zai 圓仔 Baby Panda ~ so gorgeous (and awake!)
And what a New Year it was! The best weather ever ever ever, certainly ever since I ever remember – it was wonderful! Praise God YES! Started with the New Year’s Eve Banquet just up the road at Shuang-Lian Senior Care Centre, invited by my good friends Rev. and Mrs. Hsu. Definitely the in-place to be on the night! Over 100 tables, over 1,000 people, whole families of 4 generations, delicious food and red envelopes for all the residents – fun! Then on New Year’s Day (Friday) to Taichung by High-Speed Rail – not easy to get a ticket, but … Continue reading Chinese New Year 2014!
Catherine Lee 