Dear Friends and Family;
As many of you know I was part of a five member mission team from Our Savior Lutheran Church in January 2008. The Lord truly blessed this mission and our work. A seed was planted, for me to consider a longer mission. This led me to apply for a position in Macau, a special administrative region of China. I will leave for Macau October 25, 2008 for a five month stay. I will teach English as a foreign language and also be a relationship builder at Concordia English Center in Macau. I will also visit the Concordia International School in Shanghai.
During my working years at Harvard I hosted international graduate students (my last six years). I made an especially wonderful friend, named Alina (Yi Weihua). She was a student at the Kennedy School of Government in the 2005-2006 academic year. She was very homesick for her husband David and son Jerry (age 10), so she spent a lot of time with me on weekends and on breaks in Boxford. She walked with my Boxford walking group and went to church with me. David and Jerry joined her here in February 2006. Jerry was an excellent student at public school in Somerville. They are back in China at their home in Zhuhai, Guandong Province (formerly Canton). They live very close to Macau, so that is partly why Macau has been calling me.
