Well, by the time you see this, my precious daughter Savannah will be in the air on her way home from China! It's been a long five weeks, made longer by the fact we've been able to have so little contact.
We were extremely excited to receive a phone call from her last Sunday during our Sunday school class. She spoke to the class over my cell phone speaker for about 8 minutes. She sounded so excited and upbeat in the little ways she could share. Then we were also able to hear her in the church service. That was awesome as well except for the fact poor Sandi has been missing her sister so much that she just boo hoo'd the entire time and I think for the rest of the service. Watching her made me cry so the two of us were a blubbering mess. OH, and we heard passing traffic and a car horn blow in China. Isn't technology amazing?!
Anyway, she was able to tell us that "Dad" was doing a great work there. She was fortunate enough to get paired with 2 "C" Chinese camp counselors who were able to coach her in ways to share her faith with the other campers. Since she was there as a camper as well, she wasn't as limited as we all first thought in how much and how she could share with the others. She told us she had a conversation with a girl who was working to teach Savannah some Chinese so they could communicate better about "JC" and that the "M" there is going very well. She appreciated everyone's "PR's" and said for us to continue "PRing" for the "M" there.
Now, in case you couldn't figure all that out:
Dad = God
C = Christian
JC = Jesus Christ
M = Ministry
PR - Pray
I'll be back with an update after I've "debriefed" Savannah on her trip. HA!
MARTIE! i know you are so excited....i can't wait to hear all about her homecoming!
ReplyDeleteThanks Gen! She texted me while we were in SS this morning. We were finished with the lesson so I called her back. Her first words were "What day is it???" I told her that HERE it's Sunday and we were in SS. Then she said she'd just had the best burger ever at Burger King and it CHEESE on it!! She said in China they don't have cheese. They think all Americans smell like cheese. She said she wasn't sure how they would know that though. LOL! Anyway, she was about to board the plane for LAX for their 13.5 hour flight. Then she has a 13 hour layover before started the journey from LA to Charlotte NC to Atlanta. We'll see her about 9 tomorrow night. :)
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