Missionary Profiles

Hey guys,

Today was beautiful Sunday and man was it HOT!  As most of you know on Sunday mornings we are going through the series called "Missionary Profiles".  It is a study of a famous Christian missionary each week.  Week 1 was "William Carey" who is famous for learning over 30+ languages and many Bible translations.  This week we had a blast talking about Samuel Schereschewsky.  Raised a Jewish Rabbi, he accepted Christ after reading a Hebrew New Testament, and headed to China as a missionary.  His claim to fame is that; after contracting Parkinson's disease and becoming almost completely paralyzed, he finished the last 2000 pages of his Bible translation into a dialect of Chinese with only 1 finger!  To illustrate the complexity of life with only 1 finger I had each student try to eat some pretzels using only 1 finger.  Though most of them accomplished the task, there were pretzels all over and they got the point.  To explain the difficulty of learning even basic Chinese I used my extensive "Chinese 1 from High School" to teach the students a very important phrase.

你是谁？我是一个忍者，准备死亡

Nǐ shì shuí?
Wǒ shì yīgè rěnzhě, zhǔnbèi sǐwáng

Which means: "Who are you?  I am a ninja, prepare to die

We all had a blast attempting to write the Chinese characters and pronounce our new favorite phrase.  I'd say overall, most people did ok but I don't think I'm the best Chinese teacher.  We then covered a brief passage in Hebrews ch. 11 to point out that these "heroes" all have one thing in common: Faith.  Lastly we broke up into small groups and prayed that God would help us to be missionaries to those around us and prayed for specific people that we could share Christ with.  Well I'm off to play some Castle Crashers] with Nichole, love you guys.  For all of you that are off on vacation, we miss you and don't forget about the:

 "Superhero Movie Marathon"  

When: Tuesday, August 17th

          12:00pm-8:00pm

Where: At my parents house.  

What to bring: $10 for food, Bathing suit

-BJ