Mon, Nov 2nd - 11:05PM

Lately I've seen many motor scooter and car accidents.  I've had to direct traffic a couple of times.  I think the emergency people are getting to know me.  God Has been protecting me.  Many times I've come close to getting into an accident.  But God has intervened and protected me.

I had the opportunity to share my testimony at the PingDong Commercial University.  I've been there twice.  I'll be going back in December.  I'll be going to a couple of schools during the day and to this university in the evening.  At the University one of my disciplees is leading the youth meeting.  God is good!!!!  She is also learning how to interpret for me.  What a blessing.

I went to the PingDong Christian Hospital.  It seems like the chaplains would like to have an English discipleship class.  They also want to disciple others.  What a blessing.  I'm not sure when that will occur, maybe in January.  December 21st I'll be there speaking twice to the staff.  Please pray that the hearts of these men and women will be touched and that they too will have a deep relationship with Jesus.

Please look at my photos with picassa and you will find some albums from this last month.  There will be youth leading in worship, a prophetess speaking, two times baptisms, and disciples & MTS students (No names).

In Chinese there are two terms that sound quite alike when you speak it quickly.  One of my girls called me and I thought she said that her sister wanted to come to my home to have xiu xi.  But she actually said shou xi.  The tones are very similar but the meanings are quite different.  I thought she said that her sister wanted to come to my home to rest a while during discipleship.  So I said sure.  She asked me if I understood and I said yes!  However, what she actually said was could her sister come to my house to be baptized?  Needless to say that was interesting.  They got it approved from my pastor . I asked her several questions then I baptized her in the bathroom in the bath tub using the shower head to immerse her in water.  She was totally soaked. This was the first person that I was privileged to baptize. On Sunday she had her first communion.  What a day of rejoicing that has been.  She was rejoicing and weeping at the same time.  Again what a blessing.

In my Chinese classes my teachers have been helping me to translate various things.  I'm working on a book with one teacher on Christian Vocabulary.  We are doing all of the characters in Chinese with all of the Chinese way of pronunciation called bo po mo fo and the romanized way as well.  This will include the grammar points with the English translation.  I'm learning a lot.  My Chinese is getting better.  But at times I have no idea what others are saying.  Most of the time I can communicate.  My grammar needs quite a bit of work.

Lately I've noticed that we are having more and more elderly come to know Jesus and come to our fellowship.  Verious elderly men are coming.  They are helping each other.  There is a radiance about them that is tremendous.  Praise the Lord!

I've been teaching three discipleship classes and one gospel class at the MTS school.  With the four levels of English Bible Studies and these classes I am training around 45 people.  With the addition of the Ping Dong pastors tentatively that will put the total to about 55 people.  Please pray for me that I would have the stamina and that they will train others to train others.

Sunday I was also blessed with another sight.  One of my girls led a worker of hers to the Lord last year.  She is discipling her and another girl.  Then on Sunday this younger woman brought two of her coworkers to church.  They were all sitting in the same row together.  Praise the Lord!!  People are catching on to the need and joy of discipleship training.

Later today I leave for Israel for intensive training.  Please find enclosed in this e-mail my flight schedule, hotels and itinerary plus phone contacts in case of emergency.  I really would appreciate your prayers for me.  This is a dream come true.  This is my first time there. 

I will be visiting with a girl in Jerusalem who discipled me 40 years ago . She and her mother are going on a Benny Hinn Tour.  What an exciting time that will be.

The last day of school will be in Jerusalem.  We will have a certificate ceremony.  There will be around 90 pastors, missionaries and leaders from all over the world there.  The significance of 17 November is that this will be my 60th birthday.  I can't think of any better way to spend it than to be in the Holy Land. 

I'm going on a personal retreat in the Galilee right off the Sea of Galilee.  Needless to say I am totally excited. I'll be back on the 25th.

Thank you for your continued prayers for me.

God bless! 
Pastor Xiao Yang