My dear family and friends…Ni hao!
And so begins the School of Biblical Studies (SBS) with YWAM! We’ve just started the second quarter of this nine-month course that, going through the entire 66 books of the Bible using the inductive study method (a method where the specifics of the verses are examined, giving way to common characteristics which are used to develop a generalization, as well as learning how to apply them to our lives.) It will be a very intense rest of the year for me, but has been a long time coming and the Lord has opened so many doors for me to do this school at this time. And now that I’m here…God has just continued to pour out his grace over me and I am so in love with him, with his word, with my family here, with Taiwan…God is so incredible!
On top of how amazing this time has been, God has already been showing me what my next step is: staffing SBS! He spoke to me very clearly through a few different means, and after some very intentional time in prayer and speaking to my school leader here I will be staffing the next two SBSs. It’s a two year commitment and I could not be more excited about it! A year ago I was applying and could only hope to learn what the Lord has already revealed to me, and now all I want to do is help those in the same place that I was last year be in the place I am in this year. This has been my passion for so long and I am so excited to be doing this, knowing that this is what God wants me to be doing at this point.
I know the Lord calls some people to go and others to send, and I ask that you would continue to send me off to Taiwan with your prayers daily. Specifically for a completely surrendered and open heart, as well as understanding and peace, that I may get every single thing out of this time that the Lord has set aside for me. I don’t want to miss anything due to my flesh…less of me and more of You, Lord!
Some of you have also expressed interest in supporting me financially and I cannot convey how much I would appreciate that as well. The entire cost of my school is about $4800 (including buying our own food, as our apartments are spread throughout the city), and my expenses beyond that are about $250 a month. Whether it be $10 a month or $100 (or any amount in between that you feel the Lord is asking you to give), absolutely anything will help immensely! If you feel led to support me financially you can make a check out to and send it to:
Julie Spangler
5640 Melendy Dr.
Langley, WA 98260
or give via the PayPal button on my blog at www.emilyjaneism.tumblr.com. There’s a ‘Donate’ button at the bottom of the page that is connected directly to my bank account. If you have any questions please email me at emi.jane@hotmail.com, or write me there if you want to just write to me anyway! I’d appreciate emails and Skype chats/calls (search emi.jane) and postcards and packages while I’m in Taiwan! Encouragement from home is always welcome!
Emily Spangler
Youth With A Mission/SBS
5f, No. 4, Lane 2
Ying Zhuan Rd.
New Taipei City, DanShui District
Taiwan, R.O.C., 251
May you be fully and continually blessed beyond all measure. All of the immense love and support that has been shown to me over the last decade+ in my overseas adventures with the Lord would not have been one bit possible without your prayers and financial support.
Thank you thank you thank you!
In His ever-giving grace,
Emily Jane Spangler
This week has been:
Camping.
Beach.
Sunshine.
Doing nothing.
Movies.
Sleepover.
Yummy breakfasts.
Skyping.
Laughing. A lot.
Baking.
Gilmore Girls.
Finding Dr. Pepper and Cherry Coke.
Quality time with friends…outside of class.
Reflecting over the last three months and how many things have taken place and changed my life forever in this short amount of time.
Funny how three months at home and you’re basically the same person. Of course things happen and you change and life takes you where it’s going to go…but something about three months being this intensely in the word of God that radically changes you from day to day. The result: I feel like a new person every week.
The Lord has revealed things about his grace and kindness that I have always wanted to experience…and I’m realizing that every day I am completely immersed in his mercy. Who I am and who the Lord is to me has not ceased to amaze me and I am nothing compared to his wonderful glory and majesty…and as this fantastic break comes to an end and we begin the second quarter (already??) I can do nothing but be beyond excited about what these next three months will hold…not even taking into consideration the fact that there is still another quarter after that!
I’m not looking too far into the future at the moment…even with knowing I’ll be staffing the next few years…but just living each day and thanking Jesus that he’s given me the time that I have every day with the people I’m living with here who are speaking into my life on almost an hourly basis (as if I deserve this family at all.)
To say that I am blessed is a true understatement and I love recognizing these blessings as often as I do.
God is so faithful and so generous and so specific to give me exactly what my heart desires sometimes.
I. am. blessed!
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