David Joannes
64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Excerpt from David Joannes’s journal while trekking traveling among unreached people groups and villages in Southwest China. Journal entry 12.05.1999 Woke up this morning at 6:15 to catch the 7:am bus to L*****g, but after arriving at the bus station we found out that it leaves at 8:am. It’s 7:15am right now and we’re…
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131SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I can almost hear the guttural crackle of passion in Jesus’s voice as he says, “Open your eyes and take a good look at what’s right in front of you!” His eyes are aflame with a joyous secret that we had not realized before. “These fields are ripe! It’s harvest time!” A thin layer…
read more107SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List How about a little turkey with chopsticks! Had Jesus been born in post Mayflower America, there’s no doubt he would have been hosting a turkey party with a group of people that he met on the street. He would have basted that bird to perfection, and carved it up into perfect slices. “White meat…
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66SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Chapter 4, Fragile, excerpt from The Memories I Made Up by David Joannes All too often we forget the stark fragility of life. * * * Traffic is stopped up on Xuefu Road. An angry man is sticking his head out of his vehicle, shaking his fist, shouting for the people outside to move.…
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