Not for Sale

While Dave and I were in Hong Kong getting my visa renewed we decided to look for a fellowship we could visit during the weekend we were there.  David had visited a building called "The Vine," a few years back.  Sunday morning we already had plans to visit some a friends' building in Macau so it worked out perfect when we found out The Vine had a Saturday night service for young professionals.

Were we ever thankful we got to go!  Dave met up with some friends he knew there, I got to make some new ones, and certainly Dad knew just what we needed to hear!  For me, it was so encouraging getting to be with a group of others and getting to worship and sing (something I really miss getting to do).  After the service that evening we went to dinner with some of the people we met and heard about their stories and lives.  Its just fun learning how Dad is working in different parts of the world!

That evening a Koran group from the US was there sharing and leading the worship time.  We met the singers and I just want to share with you a particular song they sang that night.

 I highly RECOMMEND you check out the link below and listen to Mickey Cho's song!  You need to know: its about sex trafficking, it speaks truth, and its still happening today.

THE SONG: Not for Sale

http://mickeycho.com/track/not-for-sale-ft-hanna-baek

*if your thinking of getting the album, I recommend it.

Meet my roommate!

Meet my roommate Xiao Lu! I'm so thankful I get to live with her!

We spent the evening cooking Chinese dishes together!
 

糖醋里脊 ＝ or in the US its called "sweet and sour pork!" I promise it tastes much better here!

麻婆豆腐！Ma stands for "mazi" (Pinyin: mázi Traditional Chinese 麻子) which means a person disfigured by pockmarks. Po (Chinese 婆) translates as "old woman". Hence, Ma Po is an old woman whose face was pockmarked. It is thus sometimes translated as "Pockmarked-Face Lady's Tofu".

Legend says that the pock-marked old woman (má pó) was a widow who lived in the Chinese city of Chengdu. Due to her condition, her home was placed on the outskirts of the city. By coincidence, it was near a road where traders often passed. Although the rich merchants could afford to stay within the numerous inns of the prosperous city while waiting for their goods to sell, poor farmers would stay in cheaper inns scattered along the sides of roads on the outskirts of the ancient city. (wikipedia)

She's an amazing cook!

Dinner and karaoke!

It wasn't quite my second week in Xiamen yet and David and his coworkers really wanted to go one evening and hang out. Our friends were still in town, so we decided to do a big dinner and then go to karaoke and invited everyone along!

After the dinner we all crammed into a friend's car and headed to karaoke.

This is only some of the group we had a total of 15 at karaoke (and even more that was at the dinner earlier that evening). We were quite a large group that night, it was definitely 热闹！(Re4 nao lively; buzzing with excitement)

My friend Jiang and I picking out some songs together

Dave and I

My boyfriend singing his heart out

All of our reactions when the singing wasn't good

It was a great night out with David's coworkers and our friends visiting!

Double date on the roof

We decided to take our friends to the roof of one of the apartment buildings near my place!

Ordered dinner (next time we'll have it delivered up there) and spent the evening together hanging out

overlooking the city!

Enjoying some good 东北 (northeastern) food