mamma mia!
Payton new favorite cousin, Christen
the three musketeers
Coming out of Bucca
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Happy Birthday Mommy!
This weekend, we had both families drive in from Houston to celebrate Roberta's big 30.
Roberta with her mother and father in law
The Lee brothers and their families
Payton and cousin Lukas at Bucca
...and Payton of course managed to become the center of attention. Check out his delayed reaction after his new life lesson.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Hide and Seek at Academy
Currently, Payton's favorite game to play wherever he is... hide and seek...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Bluebonnets
About a month ago, Payton and I visited Brenham with some good friends to hang out and take pictures with bluebonnets. The 8 of us fit in 1 minivan (with 4 car seats)! When asking the visitor's bureau where the best place to take pictures for babies/toddlers and bluebonnets would be, they told us to go behind the superwalmart in Brenham... we were a little skeptical at first, but it turned out to be a beautiful hill of bluebonnets!
Friday, April 25, 2008
BIG NEWS #2
We bought this in singapore because I started feeling nauseated and tired everyday all day. Well, 2 lines means yes! God willing, there will be the four Lees!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
BIG NEWS #1
Well, as many of you already know, I applied to various PhD programs in further preparation for ministry in theological education. We heard back from all the schools (except one, which we knew we would probably turn down anyways) just before we left for Hong Kong; after some wavering, we decided to accept the offer from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield (near Chicago) to do their Intercultural Studies program (ICS). Trinity was certainly at the top of our list but it wasn't an easy choice because of other consideration like cost and proximity to family.
Please pray for us as we have much to do in preparation for our transition (like finding a place to live) is a short amount of time. Though we are sad to leave the community at AABC (our commitment is until the end of June), we are excited (and somewhat fearful at the same time) about this new step. I will also be looking for a part-time job (no more than 20 hours) so we have some source of income; I would appreciate any leads you might have.
Friends in Hong Kong and Singapore
A key purpose of our trip, apart from exploring theological education in this region, was to visit and encourage some friends who have a connection with AABC. All graciously made themselves available and liberally extended help, to which we are very grateful. Unfortunately, due to an oversight on our part, we failed to take pictures with all of them. Here are some pics:
(at Toe and Mag's house)
(at Toe and Mag's house)Toe and Mag Set were our main contacts in Singapore. Not pictured are their two children, Gus and Annie. They are on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ and are currently assigned to East Asia School of Theology, where Toe is teaching Hebrew and Old Testament and Mag, who among other things, tutors students with English deficiencies. The Sets drove us around to lots of places and helped to make most of our arrangements.
Payton took a real liking to uncle Toe, which came as a surprise to him since he said that kids normally don't like him.
This is the front of the house that we stayed in. This house belongs to a woman in Toe's church. She split the house in two and the other half is occupied by a couple (Patrick and Betty Flynn) also with CCC teaching at EAST. Land comes at a premium in Singapore so these houses are very expensive ($1-2 million). Most people live in high rises called HDB's (Singapore's housing and development board), which citizens and permanent residents can acquire with the help of significant government subsidies.
In a small garden (another luxury) of our rented house...
Payton playing with an umbrella (which he deformed) inside the house...
We also spent a significant amount of time with Florence Tan, who teaches and performs various administrative duties at Singapore Bible College, one of the largest seminaries in Singapore. Florence drove us around to various places and even cooked for us. Here we are at Ikea, in order to escape the heat and humidity and find an indoor place for Payton to play.
I also had the opportunity to teach several times at EAST. Pictured above is Lewis Winkler and his class. Lewis is also on staff with CCC and is just finishing up his PhD in Systematic Theology from Fuller Seminary. What excited me about the class was the diversity of the class and their anticipated place of ministry. Among other places, there were students from/going to Korea, Vietnam, China, Japan, and Africa. Singapore is truly a social and educational hub for neighboring Asian countries. That in addition to English being an official language makes it an appealing place to be.
I taught two session in the area of Eschatology (study of the culmination of God's redemptive plan for creation) and two in Toe class on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament (particularly Matthew's use of the OT in his prophetic formulas).
Other folks that are not pictured but were nonetheless very helpful to us were Kuen and Karen, our main contacts in Hong Kong, and Kok Hiang and Sharon in Singapore. We are also grateful for the many professors from various schools (they call them lecturers over there) who met with us.
Payton took a real liking to uncle Toe, which came as a surprise to him since he said that kids normally don't like him.
This is the front of the house that we stayed in. This house belongs to a woman in Toe's church. She split the house in two and the other half is occupied by a couple (Patrick and Betty Flynn) also with CCC teaching at EAST. Land comes at a premium in Singapore so these houses are very expensive ($1-2 million). Most people live in high rises called HDB's (Singapore's housing and development board), which citizens and permanent residents can acquire with the help of significant government subsidies.
In a small garden (another luxury) of our rented house...
Payton playing with an umbrella (which he deformed) inside the house...
We also spent a significant amount of time with Florence Tan, who teaches and performs various administrative duties at Singapore Bible College, one of the largest seminaries in Singapore. Florence drove us around to various places and even cooked for us. Here we are at Ikea, in order to escape the heat and humidity and find an indoor place for Payton to play.
I also had the opportunity to teach several times at EAST. Pictured above is Lewis Winkler and his class. Lewis is also on staff with CCC and is just finishing up his PhD in Systematic Theology from Fuller Seminary. What excited me about the class was the diversity of the class and their anticipated place of ministry. Among other places, there were students from/going to Korea, Vietnam, China, Japan, and Africa. Singapore is truly a social and educational hub for neighboring Asian countries. That in addition to English being an official language makes it an appealing place to be.
I taught two session in the area of Eschatology (study of the culmination of God's redemptive plan for creation) and two in Toe class on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament (particularly Matthew's use of the OT in his prophetic formulas).
Other folks that are not pictured but were nonetheless very helpful to us were Kuen and Karen, our main contacts in Hong Kong, and Kok Hiang and Sharon in Singapore. We are also grateful for the many professors from various schools (they call them lecturers over there) who met with us.
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