Today our church zone* went on an all-day outing to a tea farm in Wu Lai, which is located only about 30 minutes south of Taipei city. This was a very important outing, since our goal was to invite our non-believing friends to join, in order for them to rub shoulders with Christians, and get a feeling for what our Bilingual 3E ALPHA course is like.

The Lord really exceeded our highest expectations as over 130 people ended up coming along, only about half of which were church people. As you can see from the new picture gallery we created, we all had a great time getting to know each other through games (prepared by our English co-workers), barbecuing together, and spending free time walking around the tea farm in conversation with our new friends.

Thanks so much to all of you who pray for our ministry on a regular basis - through events like today's we can see clearly how the Lord is honoring all of our prayers. It's great to be working together with all of you on the same team!

Check out the new pictures of today's pre-ALPHA Outing we added by clicking here.

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A week ago Sunday was a very special day. On that day we celebrated as our good friend, Chloe, was prayed over and commissioned to the mission field as part of a team going to Sichuan, China for one year for missionary work.  Why was this an extra special event for us? Because during our time in Taiwan the Lord has brought Chloe "full-circle". By "full-circle" I mean that a little over 3 years when I met Chloe she was a non-believer who came into the church simply to improve her English at our 3E Ministry. She and I began meeting weekly together as I offered to help her learn English. Our time together led to conversations about deeper, spiritual matters and Chloe's reasons for coming to church started to change.

In the Fall of 2008 she joined our then newly restructured 3E class, which focused more heavily on preaching the Gospel. During that season the Holy Spirit moved greatly in her life she gave her heart to Jesus. In early February of 2009 she was baptized.  Throughout last year she became very active in a Chinese cell group and also served as a co-worker for our English outreach. During the Fall of 2009 she started thinking and praying about going to the Chinese Mainland for a year of missionary service. After counseling and prayer, she was approved by our church and trained to go. In less than three weeks she'll depart for China as a missionary herself. God is so good. To Him be all the Glory!

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Prayer Requests:

• In our last update we asked for prayer that we be accepted to the new language school we were applying to for our next season of study. Praise Him that we’ve already been accepted! We have been informed that this school offers a generous scholarship to new students, so please pray if it’s His will one or both of us can receive this scholarship for our studies, as it would be a great help to us financially.
• In 2 weeks, Taiwan will celebrate the Chinese New Year. This is the biggest celebration time of the year, so please pray for our Taiwanese brothers/sisters who will spend extended time with their family members (mostly unsaved), to be a light among the darkness. We’ve also been invited to some friends’ homes, so pray for us to be examples of Christ’s love as well.
• Please pray for our monthly support need of $500 to be met.

Praises:

• As stated above, we were accepted (in the span of 2 days!) to our new language school!
• Recently, a young couple from England moved to Taipei as teachers and to join our ministry in Truth Church. Praise the Lord for these new co-workers and friends!
• Last week we attended a 5 day conference at our church on the Book of Isaiah. It was taught by a Messianic Jew from Israel, and was very enlightening and enriching!

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Dear Friends,

After a wonderful few weeks with Erich's family we have finally returned to Taiwan today. Everything went well with the flights - thanks to those who were praying for us!

You will probably be wondering what the next year holds for us. Here are some details:

• We're very excited to announce that a new season of our 3E ALPHA Ministry begins this March! The time has changed to Friday evenings, and we have lots to do in preparation before we launch. During our home assignment several new English teachers joined Truth Church, so we will be working with some of them to set up the new course together.
  Please pray for good cooperation and planning. We are going to heavily promote the course, so please also begin praying for our new friends already, who don't know the love of Christ yet!

• The Chinese New Year is in mid-February so our next quarter of language classes will not begin until after the New Year celebrations. But, we have weeks of characters to learn and memorize that we missed classes for due to our home assignment, as well as a lot of writing review from our past 1 1/2 years of study (that's about 2,000 Chinese characters!). So, lots of self-study time will be happening over the next few weeks.
  Please pray for motivation and perseverance in our studies. We are planning to switch to a more intensive program for the duration of our studies, so pray over the next few weeks we can get to a place where we feel ready and well prepared to begin classes again.

• We'll continue to host and co-lead a small group for native English speakers that attend Truth Church. During the months we were away 4 new friends arrived, and we are awaiting 5-6 more people coming in the summer. So, getting to know them, caring for their spiritual needs, connecting them to the Taiwanese Church, etc. will all be things we'll be doing this year.
  Please pray for good relationships to form among the group and for wisdom in leading the group, especially as we are growing in numbers.

Many thanks and blessings for your faithful prayers and support on behalf of the Lord's work here in Taipei!

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Dear Friends,

This is just to let you know that our latest prayer update is online. You can access it by clicking here: http://www.crossing7.com/reachtaiwan/content/schindler-update-20100104

Also, feel free to browse our past updates by clicking on the "Past Updates" link on the left-hand menu.

Thanks so much for your interest and support for our ministry here in Taipei!

Erich and Kelley

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Dear Friends,

As you probably know, we are on our last leg of a 2 1/2 month home assignment in the US and Germany. On December 28 we arrived safely in Düsseldorf, Germany, where Diet and Jan Schindler, Erich's parents, live. Here we are enjoying a much-needed break from the busyness of the past weeks. However busy, we feel that our time in the US was fruitful in raising new prayer- and financial support for our ministry in Taipei. Recapping our time in the US,...

• we shared about our ministry in Taiwan in 12 different settings
• we visited 4 different States
• we met with 3 people who are most likely moving to Taiwan this year, and will hopefully join our ministry
• the Lord graciously provided for several hundred dollars in additional monthly support - a big THANKS to those who raised their support levels or took us on for new support!!

From here in Germany we fly back to Taipei on January 18. Until then we will continue enjoying time with Erich's family (his sister Monica and brother Lukas will be here until Jan. 9) and rest up before another busy season of Chinese school and ministry.

Please pray

• for us to be able to emotionally recharge before returning to Taipei on Jan. 18
• for our application to a more intensive Chinese school to be accepted (we would like to up our classroom hours from 2 to 3 hours a day, starting in March)
• and for the Lord to continue raising our support to the needed $2,400

As always, thanks so much for tracking with us, and for upholding us in prayer!!

For the Glory of God,
Erich and Kelley

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Hi Friends,

The Taiwan Missionary Fellowship just released this 10 minute video clip on the state of evangelism in Taiwan, and the strategies that are being used to reach the Lost with the love of Christ. You'll notice in the video that one of the most important methods of evangelism include using English education in sharing the Gospel. If you've been following our ministry in Taipei, you will know that we use English conversation classes for our main strategy in evangelism.

We hope you enjoy this video, and hope that it gives you a better picture of the state of the Gospel in Taiwan.

Here's the link: http://www.tmf.org.tw/content/view/754/1/

Happy New Year!
Erich and Kelley

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