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• Mr. T: From Criminal to...?
  23/02/2010 9:00 am
  Mr. T was 11 years old when his mother died. By the age of 13, he had left his home and joined a gang. While in prison, he was visited by some Christians who shared with him about Jesus' love. They also gave him a Bible, which Mr. T can't read as he is totally illiterate. But this exposure to Jesus and the way that his life was turning out made him begin to question his religious beliefs.
• Lost Sheep - Kids at Risk
  22/01/2010 9:00 am
  The kids that day were drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, sprawled on the ground, stumbling, struggling to walk straight, fighting with each other, crying from getting hurt, throwing fire crackers; it was complete chaos. Seeing those boys broke my heart. But that’s the reality of the situation here.
• Raising up people for mission
  17/12/2009 9:00 am
  Sam was a Taiwanese pig farmer... Steve was an Australian engineer...Monica is Taiwanese and owns a cram school in Taipei...
  
  One of our greatest encouragements over the last year has been seeing God raise up people like Sam, Steve, Monica and many others. In 2009 we saw 13 new missionaries join OMF in Taiwan, a number of Taiwanese seminary students have started serving with us as interns, other Taiwanese are working as volunteers in various outreach ministries. This is not to mention many short-term workers, and an increased interest locally and abroad in the needs of Taiwan's working class. We are expecting even more workers in 2010.
• Christmas Evangelism
  21/10/2009 9:00 am
  On the first of November each year, giant inflatable Santa Clauses and synthetic Christmas trees replace Halloween costumes in the window of the LED shop on Taichung’s Wen Hsin Road. Other shops soon follow with Christmas tree lights and festive cards...Though it is possible to decry this commercialization of Christmas, in practice the raised public awareness creates a tremendous opportunity for churches to reach out with the gospel.
• Market Sellers, how will they hear?
  21/10/2009 9:00 am
  A-So is 45 and married with two children. He and his wife work 7 days a week from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the main market selling children’s clothes. Once a year they take a few days vacation with market friends on an organized trip. Weekends are the busiest trading time in the market. How can someone like A-So go to a traditional church?
• Birth of a Church
  13/10/2009 9:00 am
  Observing the birth of a new church...
  
  Every Sunday, Randy and Janet load their bicycles with plastic chairs and an electronic keyboard; and with song books on their backs they cycle to the low-income housing estate in Taipei. They sit on the street corner under a big tree with people they have met there and begin singing praise songs to God in Taiwanese.
• Learning Taiwanese
  25/09/2009 9:00 am
  Four days a week, I sit in my classroom at language school with my teacher, making sounds that are foreign to my tongue and lips. The Taiwanese language has seven tones. I try very hard to get the tones correct, because the tone of a word changes its meaning. I was trying to share a Bible story with a local friend when she corrected my pronunciation. I get my first tone and second tone mixed up, so instead of saying ‘seng2keng1’ (Bible) , I said ‘seng1keng1’ (crazy). Or instead of praising someone for being clever “I chin gau5”, I end up saying she’s a monkey “I chin kau5”.
  
• Shopworkers Dorm Fellowship
  22/08/2009 9:00 am
  A social worker phones our Centre: “Do you have a room in one of your dorms available for a mother with 2 children? We discovered them in McDonalds. They have slept there for 10 nights already. They had to escape from their home because of domestic violence by the husband.”
  
  We have 6 dorms – two for men and four for women – with 32 people are living in them at the moment...
• Freedom for Autumn
  22/07/2009 9:00 am
  We met Autumn when her life had made many a turn for the worse. As a young girl she was introduced to the wrong places to earn easy money. The life was glamorous and she earned heaps of money and sent some home, which silenced her parent’s questions. What they didn’t know was that Autumn started using drugs.
• Walking - seeing - praying
  28/06/2009 9:00 am
  Every Tuesday we go prayer walking in Wanhua.
  
  We begin walking and praying at the corner of the Dali Elementary School, where we hold our weekly kids club meeting...As we continue with our prayer walk around the school, we think about the kids and teachers inside, and we pray for them. Crossing the street, we walk further down to the Luti Park, where we do our park ministry every Saturday. As we walk through the park, we sense the spiritual darkness, and we claim God’s victory over the place...Walking around the block and then back to the front of the Dali Elementary School, where we meet the kids as they get out of school...We then move on to the nearby Fu Min neighborhood. As we walk through the Fu Min area, we see poverty, people, and familiar faces...We see and hear and feel all around us—and we pray.