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5 Things I Loved about Christmas in China
[…] ole Saint Nick decorate the windows of business establishments along with sparse plastic trees of all colors wrapped with twinkle lights. During our first years in China, 2010 until around 2012, you’d have never known the season had arrived, but today’s modern China assures you through sales and decor, it’s time for gift-giving. Outside […]
A Village with My Name
A Book Review
A Village with My Name: A Family History of China’s Opening to the World, by Scott Tong. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 272 pages, 2017. Each of us lives through a series of events and then packages them in a particular way. Scott Tong Finding one’s ancestral past seems to be trending. I see […]
Having Gone to China, I’m Thankful I Learned . . .
[…] against fear in order to love the orphan, educate the community about the spread of HIV in schools, families, and communities, and to treat those with the virus. I am thankful to have served alongside one of the many church-led movements reaching out where society fails. An increased culinary palette This might sound frivolous, […]
In the HIV Medical System
[…] the Elim staff, we would never have survived the language barrier much less the process. Up and down stairs to various reception areas for billing, receiving blood vials, and blood withdrawals until we finally got my daughter’s prescription. One day, after about a year and a half of living this routine, I stood in […]
Things I Wish I Had Done
[…] another, and admit we both need to grow in wisdom and understanding of what church is. Showed more grace in the midst of culture stress. Our first visitors in China were world travelers. They’d visited more countries and people groups than we had, but the moment they landed in China they were incapacitated. Language, […]
Living with HIV in China
[…] they are carrying their mother’s antibodies. It isn’t until testing at 18 months old, that a child is determined in fact to be a carrier of the virus. (When a child is 18 months old, the mother’s antibodies are no longer in her baby’s blood system.) If a baby is born HIV negative, but […]
Things I Wish I’d Known
Part 2 of a multi-part series on cross-cultural adjustment, "Going to China." Support development, job training, vaccinations, visas, and packing luggage to precisely 50 lbs. a piece are merely the tip of the iceberg when preparing for life in China. These tasks, though necessary, often don’t prepare you for what to expect in the […]
Finding the One
[…] eyes to the lack of education still surrounding HIV/AIDS, and if we continued down this path, we’d not only be adopting, but becoming life-long educators on this virus. So What Are HIV and AIDS? Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a virus that deteriorates one’s immune system by attacking the body’s white blood cells. Once […]
Returnee Referral Systems
[…] system. Form-based systems also have security concerns. The process is neither safe nor efficient. Web-based semi-automated systems seem to be more reliable from the security point of view. They would also help with statistics consolidation. Yet they need to have enough trained gate-keepers, who are also trusted, to access and use the network. If […]
Deciding to Adopt a Child with Special Needs
The wide range of children with special needs can be easily viewed on any international adoption agency’s website. As our family began the process to adopt, we immediately went to the waitlisted special needs children, and quickly felt completely overwhelmed. What we didn’t know was that we’d be confronted with deciding which need we […]