The Glimpse Project: Taiwan Available 11:11 AM

The Glimpse Project: Taiwan is available on DVD and has been mailed to each congregation for their individual use. We invite you to use it in your ministry, whether it's during a "mission moment" or just to get to know your missionaries. A Japan and Chad series are also available, if you need them. These are also available for individual use as a family or small group Bible study.

To Purchase and Learn More visit > ffbooks.org/glimpseproject

A short preview of the third installment of the Glimpse Project. Shot in Taiwan in May 2010.

Children's Cup: 21 Days of Prayer 9:24 AM

Children's Cup has started a 21 Days of Prayer...and we're one day late. They will post short prayers and prayer topics each day for you to follow along. I invite you to join this prayer effort, but as you do, I ask you to remember to pray for our missionaries in Chad, Africa as they reach out to families and children who face similar hardships and need to hear the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Praying for the children of Africa who are living in some of the hardest conditions anywhere.

Changing the world
one child at a time.

Join us for 21 days of prayer August 15 through September 4, 2010. We’ll post daily prayer guide information for you to track along with. You can also post your own prayers on our facebook page at www.facebook.com/ChildrensCup.

Let us know your are praying with us by attending our 21 Days of Prayer Facebook Event.

"The Glimpse Project: Taiwan" Preview 10:32 AM

A short preview of the third installment of the Glimpse Project. Shot in Taiwan in May 2010. Due to be released September 2010.

Glimpse Project: Taiwan - Update #1 9:11 AM

The Glimpse Project is a series of episode-based DVDs on Lutheran Brethren International Missionaries in Chad, Japan, and Tawian.

visit > the Glimpse Project website


As I write this, heavy drops of rain are pounding on the the plastic roof creating a cacophony of sound. I've missed that sound for the last twelve years in Western Washington, where the rain/mist makes almost no noise when it lands. Yes, in some ways this is home (I grew up here). There is still a sense of the exotic as I see the world of Taiwan with the eyes of an adult and experience the creative flow of traffic patterns, but being able to understand almost everything that is being said around me makes this Glimpse Project different than the others (Japan and Chad). I don't have to wait for the translation. I can ask people if it's okay to video tape (and no one has said no yet, though one merchant said it was only okay for me since I was Andy Larsen's friend).

The weather is nice here, though you might not think so. I'm really enjoying the heat and humidity—the never being cold (just like my experience in Chad). And that makes me reflect on my previous trips to shoot video in Japan and Chad. Each place has a bit of adventure, and a lot of normal in it. I rode the high speed trains in Japan and Taiwan, and I'm not sure if I could tell the difference between mangos in Chad and Taiwan (they're both delicious). All three places boast of poisonous snakes. I'm not sure if that counts for adventure or normal. Maybe some of both.

But my focus is not the snakes, or the transportation, or the languages, or the weather. It is the people. I talk with the missionaries about their mission to proclaim the Gospel to people who haven't heard. I hear about the cultures and the barriers that stand between would-be-believers and Christianity. I see people that God loves. I see people whose lives have been changed because of what God has done for them.

How do I capture all this with digital video and share it with the North American churches? I can't—at least not all of it. But one shot at a time, and interview by interview, the material will come together. And then I'll spend two months holed up in my office trying to organize it and communicate the stories of God's mission in Taiwan.

Micah Nordtvedt

visit > the Glimpse Project website

Glimpse Project - Taiwan 7:54 PM

Micah Nordtvedt left May 6th for Taiwan where he will begin taping the next installment of the Glimpse Project. Over the next several weeks our missionaries, serving in Taiwan with the Hakka people, will work with Micah to communicate the message of their ministry.

• Pray for God’s wisdom for Micah and our missionaries on how best to communicate their mission and ministry.
• Pray that the final DVD will touch hearts here in our congregations in North America.
• Pray for safe travel for Micah.

Read more about the Glimpse Project on the International Mission website