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An Awkward Missionary
“So why are you living in Taiwan?” I get this question a lot. It’s usually one of the first questions Taiwanese ask when they meet me, and a question I’ve had to answer a hundred times to family and friends back home. It’s a fair question, one I should have a simple answer to by […]
Are You Afraid Of Rejection?
“Are you afraid of rejection?” This was a revelation God gave me one night last year in the month of November while I was serving at the Rock Cafe. I was handing out tracts with a foreigner staff named Catt on the busy Ying-Zhuan Road (the busiest night market street in Danshui). Usually we try […]
Why Taiwan?
A few years ago, my pastor invited a tall skinny guy to the stage at the end of the church service. He was wearing gray high top sneakers with bright blue shoelaces and was preparing to move to Taiwan in a few days. (Sidenote: I did not know at the time that I would be […]
The Pursuit of Purpose
This past Saturday, I spent the day about an hour and a half south of Taipei City in Yilan County in a city called Toucheng. It’s decently small as cities go. A pretty, quiet place with wonderfully fresh air, sandwiched between the ocean on its East and the steep island mountains on its west. There’s […]
I am not an Evangelist
Written by Travis Kleppen I am not an evangelist. I’m not one to start up a conversation with a stranger, even if it’s small talk, let alone attempt to tell them about Jesus and risk rejection from the outset. I would much rather spend my time doing what is easy with people I know will […]
Unity – Surprised by the Body of Christ
Written by Travis Kleppen If you go on to YWAM Montana’s website and look at The Surge, you will see a phrase written in all capital letters front and center: “ONE TARGET NATION. ONE STRATEGY. TOGETHER.” This is what The Surge is about, God’s people working together with one another and with God to reach […]
Learning to Love the Ocean
Last summer will forever be the summer I learned to love the ocean. It’s not that I hated it before. I simply didn’t know or understand it; and so I feared it. Growing up in Pennsylvania, my family’s weekend outings were cookouts by the local mountain streams, water in a totally different way. The air […]
The Power of the Wait
In this day and age we are bombarded from the media with sex, sex, and more sex. From TV, to movies, to advertisements, to even packaging, our eyes are bombarded with over-sexualized and overly sexualized images and scenes. So why is it that when we start thinking about or talking about sex being referenced in […]