When I was young, I used to be a lively, cheerful, and happy girl. I remembered that I was such an extrovert that I was always singing and dancing and wasn’t at all shy with adults. I always did well in school and was often chosen to be the class

It was a freezing night in November when I was just 9 years old. The blowing wind outside was so severe that I thought the window in my room would break. Unfortunately, my father was on a far-away business trip, so only my mother and I were at home. During

When I was fifteen years old and in middle school, I ran away from home with my three close friends. The four of us traveled around for two weeks without any connections with our families or schools. Looking back, I am certain that this was the most terrible thing that

Last night, I had a nice dream. In the dream God told me that now I have the privilege of choosing my wife without anyone disturbing me. After I woke up, I felt so happy because now I finally have the chance to think about my sweetheart, my dream lover.

There is an ancient proverb that says, “Every year, the flowers look the same, but people don’t.” Everyone’s childhood is unique, as was mine. It was filled with crying and laughing, sadness and joy. When I look back on those days, there are many memorable things that impressed me a

When I was a child, I lived in an old apartment building that offered little privacy for the tenants. Because the apartments were so close together, people could see and hear things that were intended to be kept private. We would often hear people shouting at each other and sometimes

How time flies! Although I am now 22 years old, there is one event in my past that I will never forget. It happened on my way to my grandparents’ home during the Spring Festival in 2000. This is China’s biggest festival of the year, and it’s a time when

NEWSLETTER    Peggy and I often talk about our “busy” lives as being a “good-busy.” Here are some highlights of 2017: Jim Continues his ministry of recruiting teachers for ERRChina, helping to train them, and then travels with Peggy twice a year to visit them in China, and once each

Life Marks: WHAT KIND OF LOVE IS THIS? As you are probably aware, the New Testament was written in the Greek language, and this means that the Bibles we hold in our hands have been translated into English from the original Greek. In English, we talk about “loving our spouse”

Life Marks: A TIME TO GIVE THANKS I’d like to begin by asking a question: “When is the best time to give thanks?” Our natural inclination is to “give thanks” when things are going well. When we love our job, and job security appears to be intact; when we are able