Into the Unknown
Hong Kong looms on the horizon. What awaits us there? The unknown awaits us. This will be a team of four, a married couple, a single woman, and me, the team leader. I guess one could always look to the past to see what the future might hold. This is my sixth time going to Asia. My first trip, I likened to setting off an atomic bomb in Lanzhou, Gansu province. That is, we hit the city, and made a great impression. On that team were, Patrick, Lindsay, Courtney, Karen, Melissa, and Jonathan. Of this team, three have gone back to China, two for long term. We ate well, we had good living quarters, and we went on great tours. It was on one of these tours we faced a dilemma. The school took us to a temple. Some on the group did not want to go in. At that moment, the story of Paul in Athens standing in a temple using the Greeks pantheon of gods and the one unknown god to share his message with the Greeks came to mind. I related this story to my team, all save one went in. From this experience,...