Hello again, everybody. The three Roes are off again on another wonderful trip. God is so gracious to us and has blessed us so abundantly in our many travels. We are off to Tanzania in just a few hours. We are going to be with friends that are missonaries close to Mwanza, Tanzania on Lake Victoria. They have established new churches, started a Bible Institute to train pastors and started an orphanage close by that Chrissy hopes to visit often. Three college students have been interning with the work and arrived in May to help coach soccer with some secondary school teams and to give soccer camps in some of the villages where small churches have been established. The parents of two of the boys will meet us in Nairobi and our pastor arrived last week ... read more

Well, now we’ve been to The Great Wall and lived to tell about it. The first day we walked down from the hotel(about 3/4 of a mile), but decided we would wait until Saturday to actually climb it. In Badoling, the wall has been rebuilt for people to be able to walk on it. It is hard to imagine that they have 4500 miles of it. We could see some of it that had not been restored and it was quite overgrown and a lot of broken stones. Our hotel called “the Commune” was wonderful and tempted us into breaking a promise we had made to eat only Chinese food while we were here. One look at the western menu with New Zealand rack of Lamb and New Zealand Anchor butter and we forgot all about ... read more

These will just be pictures as I try to keep up. We are at a German-owned resort now and I may relax too much.... read more

When we last blogged, we had no idea what was in store for us as we went to Qingdao to order our pipe-making machine. We were met at the airport by the Managing Director and interpreter and the most amazing time of Chinese hospitality that seemed to never stop. We arrived at 3:00 in the afternoon. They found that we had booked a hotel and promptly cancelled that since they had a special room for us to stay in close to the factory. That surprised us and pleased us quite a bit. Mr. Geng (pronounced gong) had a VW called a Santana that was about the size of a Jetta. He drove us everywhere that we went. While in Gingdao and Jaio Zhun, where the factory was. As we got to the factory, he immediately made ... read more

Well, Saturday started very gloomy and drizzly and continued throughout the day. It wasn't too cold though. We thought the damp weather would dampen the plans of the tour guide, but no, she felt inspired to show us even more. We first went to the zoo to see the Pandas who seem to like dampness. They have 8 or 9 and there were four that were pretty active. The funniest time was when a feeder brought one of them some carrots and he just leaned back like in a lounging chair and happily nibbled away on them. Then, whoosh, we were off to the Summer Palace which was so unbelievable in its grandeur and just plain bigness that it boggles the mind. They have a covered walkway that is over 700m long which is about 1/2 ... read more