Today was a rather adventurous day for us as we travelled about 1 1/2 hours outside Beijing to the Great Wall at Mutianyu. It was a beautiful but cold day and very clear. The cool thing about Mutianyu is that you take a chairlift up to the wall and an alpine slide down! Not the conventional way but lots of fun for both of us.
We then went to visit the home of Guillaume and Delphine Gauvain, the founders of Bethel, for some lunch. They are an incredible couple and AML remains committed to helping Bethel both prayerfully and financially. What they have accomplished in just five years at Bethel is incredible but they need our support more than ever! Did you know there are approximately 12 million blind people in China? And they can currently only house 32 at their facility. We need to help them with their expansion!!
After lunch, JR and I went to downtown Beijing to see some sites including the Hutong, Bell Tower, Tianamenn Sqare, and Forbidden City. Finally, we met up with Casey Sapp from Orlando and had a great Chinese dinner with chopsticks (they force you to eat less because it takes longer to get your food to your mouth!).
Tomorrow, it is off to church and then to the airport to fly to Luoyang to tour Maria's Big House of Hope. Enjoy the photos!!
We love the pictures! Hope your camera is working Papa John! The little boys loved the one of you holding the lamb...and of course they love the motorcycle picture. It only took us 30 minutes or so to explain the sidecar to Jud! We miss you but we know you are having fun!
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