Our visit to Chiayi

This past weekend, Alice and I went to Chiayi (1 hour from Changhua) to visit my friend Leon from my fellowship during my university days. He took us to the very new university campus called National Chung Cheng University. It is absolutely one of the prettiest university campuses I've ever seen. In comparison to the university campuses I've seen in Canada, e.g., Univ. of British Columbia and Univ. of Saskatchewan, I feel that the campus of National Chiayi University ranks right up there for beauty. The scenery is beautiful. The buildings are all brand new and about 10 years old. It's a much more attractive campus than National Changhua Univ. of Education.

In the evening, they took us to a Beijing style restaurant in Chiayi. I'm not sure if the food was authentic Beijing style but the way they served tea certainly seemed like it. The tea servers came around to our table and poured hot water into our tea cups with a kettle with a very long spout. That was just great to see. It was the first time I've been served tea this way. And way one is supposed to drink tea is to do it elegantly, with one hand holding the cup, and the other hand slightly holding open the cover. It looks so elegant on TV but feels awkward when actually done.

Leon's wife works at the city's biggest hospital, Chiayi Christian Hospital, which was started by American missionaries of the Lutheran Free Church. It seems that many hospitals here in Taiwan were started by missionaries (the one in Changhua was started by Canadian missionaries of the Presbyterian church). Thank God for missionaries. I still believe that our work and service to the Lord is valuable because it is bourn out of love for the people. On Sunday morning, we went with them to their church called DoubleBlessing, an evangelical Lutheran church. I enjoyed the service there even though I could not understand any of the sermon. I was touched by the Spirit's presence there. Praise God for his wonderful Spirit.