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Monday was a long busy day for us. We did some sightseeing in Taipei before we boarded the plane for a long trip home. We visited some interesting places and yes we all made it to the top of the Taipei 101 building! It was an incredible sight. Tired and sad to leave we had one more dinner with Angela and Eric (navigator missionary) and Cara Lee and Jeremy at the airport before we boarded the plane. It was a bitter sweet dinner with them. New friendships were made and old friendships were strengthened.
We made it home after several hours of flying and some delays at DFW, as I reflect on the trip I wanted to post a reminder to pray for our friends in Taiwan we we left behind Angela, Cindy, Mark, Frank, Andy, Easter, Joseph (professors at the University) all of these wonderful people are Christians and want to share the love and hope of Christ to their friends there in Taiwan. Please pray for these as they continue the work of spreading the gospel. Glenda, John and Heidi, Eric, Woody and Martha are all missionaries there who are working to make friendships with the people of Taiwan so they too can share the gospel message of Christ pray for them as well. Pray for the friends we made that have not yet repented of thier sin and received the grace and mercy of Christ that He will open their eyes and hearts to the message that our friends we left behind so graciously want to share with them. It was such a prilivage to meet the Christian and non christian friends and we pray for them all that God will reveal himself to them and keep them safe as they minister to the people of Taiwan. We were so blessed to be a part of this trip and thank you for your prayers for us as we were gone.

Posted by Jeff Higley

Wow, Last day in Taiwan, the time has really flow by. We are packing up and preparing to leave for Tiepei where we will spend the day before catching our 12:00 am departure flights back to the good ol' USA. We are going to Tiepei 101 wich was the tallest building in the world until recently. We are planning to go to the top. You should google this building and see how tall it is. I am terrified and I wish my big brother was here to enjoy the experience with me. We are also going to a (can't spell it) memroial which is similar in Tiennan(?) Square in China, and to the Palace. We will eat lunch there and hopefully it's the last rice I will eat for a while. We are getting ready to go the the college one last time just before we leave to say good bye to the friends we've made. Everyone keeps asking if we will please come back next year. What an experience it's been and I just want to say THANKS ! ! ! for all your prayer support. See you soon.

posted by Jessica

Just a quick story today before we start out. We had prayer walking on Friday since most of the students have gone home for the long weekend. It was a great experience to walk the streets and pray for the people of Taichung. As we passed people and they looked at us and wondered what are these people doing here, I prayed that God would open their eyes to the truth. It saddened my heart to watch people burning money in their pots so that their family members that have died. My heart aches for them they are blinded to the truth. When we finished up the walk Jeff and I went to the "resturant row" to eat lunch and found a buffet style place to eat. When we sat down I noticed a couple of women at another table and they looked like they were praying. We prayed and ate our lunch. When we got up to leave one of the ladies said "excuse me, are you Christians? " I told her we were and they were so excited to meet other Christians. Ielene and Rachel were their names. We had a good visit with them, and found out about the church they attend. We are off to ride the high speed rail more on that later.

Wednesday evening we had a worship service here at the apartment complex where we are staying. There were probably 25-30 students from the university who came to the service and heard the gospel presented clearly. Five of them made profession of faith in Christ. Yesterday we went to a Christian camp up in the mountains. We took about 50 of the local students with us and were able to serve them luch, play games with them, and then present the gospel to them. It has been a great couple of days. Since this a holiday weekend, the Dragon Boat Festival, the university is closed today and most of the students have left the campus and gone to their repective homes so it's been a slow day. We had another prayer walk today thorough the confucius temple, the university campus, and the surronding neighborhood as well as some of the Budahist temples. The said there are more temples per capita in Taiwan than any other nation. Tommorow we are going to Kaohsiung which is on the south end of the island of Taiwan. Its on the coast and is suppose to be a beautiful city. We are taking the high speed train which is suppose to take about 40m inutes to make the 150 mile trip. Looking forward to seeing you all soon.
Jeff Higley

Today we went to the National Taiwan Institute of Technology and met with a freshman composition class. After class some of the students invited us to go have lunch with them. We had a great visit. Then they wanted us to come to their ping pong class. One of the students wanted to play against Jessica and I. She said she was an "OK" player. She said that she usually plays against the coach and that she someties beats him. She took it pretty easy on us and still killed us. She taught us how to play the way you see the typical Chinese players play. The grip was backwards from what I'm use to but we started getting the hang of it. We have a worship service tonight and have invited several of the students that we met to come and join us. They will have an opportunity to hear the gospel presented. Yesterday we had a huge lunch with probably 75-100 students from the National Taiwan Sports University, and 2 of our students and one of the Christians from Taiwan got to share the gospel with them. Our prayer is that the truth of God's word will penetrate their hearts and that God will open their eyes to His truth. Plese continue to pray for the Taiwan people to come to faith.
Jeff Higley

posted by Jessica

Yesterday we had a wonderful opportunity at the PE college they allowed us to come in and have a program at lunch time where we feed the students and played some games with them. This is huge as they have never done anything like that at all. We had a time of singing and then we had a couple of students share the message of Christ. It was a great time and there were several students that came and participated and some who just watched from a distance.
In our afternoon class which was speech class the professor asked the students what they would change about Taiwan. Several students spoke about the ecomony and money. One student Cindy who is a beliver was so excited to speak and she told them she wants to change Taiwan by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ. She asked them if they knew what gospel meant most were confused so she told them it is the good news of Christ. It was exciting to see her passion for wanting her fellow students to share in the joy that she has.

Jeff and I went to the NTIT school today to an English sentence writing class. The girls that were in my group were glad that we were there because the class is boring. :) I learned a new card game and met some very fun girls. Several of them are interested in how we celebrate Christmas which was a great opening to share a little bit about the birth of Christ and the true meaning of Christmas. After class Jeff and I went to lunch with his group at their favorite resturant.... you guessed it McDonald's!! Even though it is not my favorite it was a nice break from rice and noodles to have a cheeseburger and fries! We were not scheduled for another class but the girls wanted us to come to PE with them and play ping pong. They said we did good, I think they were being nice, but we played for 1 hour and 20 minutes. We had a good time making friends and are sad that they are leaving today to go visit their familes. Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival so they have a long weekend and a lot of the students will be leaving today. We are going to the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow in the mountains and the good news is we are taking about 55 students with us. Woody and Martha who are missonaries here are preparing lunch for all of us for tomorrow. We are looking forward to the trip.

Posted by Jessica
As I was getting ready to prepare for the prayer walk this morning, I went back to read the passage that Phillipp used Sunday morning at Beitun which was Isaiah 29. While I did not know what Phillip was preaching about to his congregation I asked God this morning to show me something in this passage and these things were very evident to me. As a beliver we must first know who we are in Christ refer to v 16. Know that He has a purpose for us and a plan for our lives. Second for us as believers we need to make sure that our worship is not only rules made by man but out of the joy in our hearts for the grace and redemption of Christ on the cross. Verse 18 says "In that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll and out of the gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see." This is my prayer for the people of Taichung that God has brought this group of people at this time to this city so that we can be a light to the blinded and offer them the words to hear and in His time bring them out of the gloom and darkness. As we walked this morning through the streets of Beitun and saw the temples they was so dark and gloomy it brought the scripture back to me. We had opportunity to give a couple of cards to some monks at the temple, we traded cards for their tea. Our prayer as we left the temple was that of praise we were able to plant a seed with them. Please pray for the group as we spread the Light of Christ.