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New staff and other things

Yesterday (Saturday) our new staff arrived in Chengdu: a single guy named Glen and a family with four kids named the Scotts.  We’re happy to have new staff, and can’t believe that the summer has gone so quickly!  New staff means that meetings are coming soon, and then we begin another school year!  I’m excited. 
I have been speaking at the International Fellowship for the past few weeks - we’re looking at the book of Habakkuk.  I’m learning a lot from the book and hoping that others are encouraged as well.  We’re walking through the book in three weeks’ time, and then the fellowship will send us off to our own northwest plant. 
Another step in our apartment renovation is complete: we now have a garden on our roof!  Sarah will be picking out flowers this week and we’ll get pics up soon.
We bought a webcam today - want to talk to us while looking at us at the same time?  Let us know!  We already have a skype account - our name is theroebers - but would also be happy to set up a different messaging account to be able to video conference with you!

Long time no post…

Hello readers!
Sorry for the distance between posts.  Sarah and I have been a little busy, but the real reason is that I was expecting to change over the website sooner.   As you can see, it hasn’t happened yet, but it should be changing soon!
We have been keeping busy in Chengdu and Sichuan province, working on our Chinese and making changes to our apartment.  We also went away this past weekend to the Wolong nature reserve - about a 5 hour trip from Chengdu, it allowed us to escape the heat and humidity of Chengdu (the news is saying it’s the hottest it’s been in 30 years!) and see some beautiful scenery.  I’ve also been busy with my online course with DTS, and will also be speaking in fellowship the next three Sundays.  Finally, we also have been doing "Dinner and a Movie" at school - a chance to eat some western food and enjoy a movie in our auditorium.
That’s all for now - people are painting our living room… I should go see how it’s going.  We’ll put pictures up when our transformation is complete.