Partners Apart (for now)

Thanks for being partners with us, the Nelson clan, as we follow God’s leading from the sunny shores of California’s Central Coast to Southeast Asia!

A Long Day In Hong Kong

There is no such thing as a short day in Hong Kong. Not with Carol. I’m not sure she sleeps. She eats, sleeps, and breathes God’s love for the Chinese people. It sustains her. And everyone else hurries to keep pace! Today we visited Sharon Lutheran School (the web site is all in Chinese). It’s…

More Greetings in Hong Kong

The purpose of our visit to Hong Kong is to assist with a visit from LC-MS Communications. Erik Lundsford, the LC-MS photographer, and Megan Mertz, an LC-MS writer, are coming to Hong Kong to do a story on the Lutheran Church Hong Kong Synod (LCHKS) and the amazing work they do for the people of…

Greetings in Hong Kong

Now that Gena and I are back together again, it’s time to hit the road. She doesn’t travel with me on all my trips, but since she needed to leave Indonesia anyway to submit for her new visa, it made sense for her to travel with me to Hong Kong. So we departed Kuala Lumpur…

Free At Last

Most of life is a learning process. I think when you quit learning in one way or another, you begin to die. Or maybe it just speeds up. Maybe a part of you is already dead and you don’t know it. Living overseas accentuates this need for learning. Nothing is a given. Certainties are elusive…

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