It's been a great day. Katie and I had a little issue sleeping last night... still adjusting to being 12 hours ahead of home. But we're doing good. Everyone is ready to hit the sack soon. The heat and humidity here really zaps the energy out of us.
One of the sad, but really interesting things that we are learning is that the religious background of most folks here in Taiwan is Budism and Taoism (90% of the population). Both have strong beliefs that we have to appease gods and ancestors living in the afterlife, in order to be successful in all of life. Lance and Kimberly were telling us all about this last night and today. They even showed us in there neighborhood a store devoted to selling gods or items to please gods and ancestors. One really common practice is to burn "goats money" to please the gods and their ancestors. "Goats money" is really nothing more than a yellow piece of paper with red print on them.
-"goats money"
-barrel to burn goats money
We spent much of today preparing with all the missionaries and other groups today. A lot of this afternoon we were in meetings and times of prayer. We also spent a lot of time pumping up 200 air mattresses for everyone to sleep on.
Andrew using a foot pump!
Thanks for all your prayers! The campers all arrive tomorrow. Please keep on praying.
Josh
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