Category: Travel
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Guangzhou is famous for food. Dim Sum is…
Guangzhou is famous for food. Dim Sum is eaten in the morning. It is not one kind of food, but an assortment of many different low- priced delicacies such as wontons, hand-pulled noodles, tiny egg custard pies, specially flavored meat balls, duck eggs salted in the shell, special cuts of sautéed meat, pastries, and many…
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I remember there were certain places in Canton (Guangzhou)
I remember there were certain places in Guangzhou that seemed to have a powerful presence of the Holy Spirit. I believe those places were probably sites of Christian activity in the years prior, when open worship was allowed. I looked at a building on the campus of a large university where I taught English and…
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Foreign countries have traded with China
Foreign countries have traded with China through the southern city of Canton (also called Guangzhou) for over 2000 years. You must travel northwest up the Pearl River from Hong Kong about four hours by boat or three hours by train to reach it. Even after living there ten years, I found that it was more…
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My biggest adventure
In 1989 I embarked on the biggest adventure of my life. I quit a good job in Wichita, Kansas, to go to China as an English teacher since missionaries were not allowed there. I had no idea of the joys and sufferings awaiting me. While there, I learned a lot about prayer and saw many…
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