So what is this whole trip going to be about?  Some details and thoughts below, as an excerpt from a support letter.

From August 2-19, 2008, four other college students from ACF and I will be in Taipei, Taiwan, working with the Glory Church (台北榮耀堂) in holding two weeks of camp for the high school and college students of the city.  Our first week will be a “special interest camp” as is popular in Taiwan.  We are proficient in English, and this gives us something to offer to the students there, which in the process will open up an opportunity to share with them about this person named Jesus and how he has changed our lives.  We will do this through teaching Bible stories in the morning of the first week.  In the afternoon, we will hold the “special interest” part of the camp, where we will hold workshops pertaining to whatever skills we have between our team from the States and our Taiwanese coworkers, such as ultimate frisbee, dance and music.  Through these two parts of the camp, we hope to build relationships with the students there and show them what it means to love as Christ loved us.  We have no idea who will be there or what kind of people we will encounter, but we trust that there’s a God who loves them immensely and who has every detail of our trip planned out.  

Our second week of camp will be a “leader’s retreat” type conference for the leaders within the Glory Church, namely student leaders.  Having come from a background of rigorous coursework at CMU, all of the members on the team have also learned to balance schoolwork with investing time in ACF.  With such experiences, we hope to share what we’ve learned with the student leaders in Taiwan and encourage them to keep spending time doing God’s work all the while keeping up their schoolwork.  Academic pressure is almost unbearably high in the Taiwanese school system, and finding time for anything else is a real challenge.

Despite all this, I’m pretty sure that in our attempt to pour life into others, we will end up being the ones humbled by what God is doing in the lives of those around the world.  So we pray earnestly for God to move and work, and that we might be able to have a little part in what He is doing.