This week, I had the privilege of speaking at the Festival of God’s Power Conference in Taiwan as well as several other churches. It was an amazing time and I am always encouraged and blown away by Taiwan’s passion for Jesus Christ. I wanted to do something special for 365 Days of Love, so I asked a friend for some ideas on how we could serve Taiwan. She suggested handing out red envelopes for Chinese New Year with candy and an encouraging note at the nightmarket. The nightmarkets in Taiwan are popular open-air gathering places where a lot of street vendors sell amazing food and drink. I loved that idea! But then it struck me… PANDA LOVE.

I never grew up with hugs myself, but I realized how important hugs are ever since God began to show me how powerful a loving hug can be. Now I hug everyone I meet and I love to let other people hug me… I know that in the Asian culture, its very common to have love shown in a different way than a hug. Many of the people walking the streets in Taiwan may have never experienced a hug full of LOVE– But today all of that would change. They would get a hug… from a PANDA.

I asked for a panda suit and all of these materials in the afternoon and by the time night fell, we had everything we needed. The Taiwan team was amazing! I jumped into the panda suit, we jumped into the car, and we rolled out into a nearby nightmarket. Watch what happens in this 365 Days of Love episode of GIVING FREE HUGS AS A TAIWANESE PANDA.

We gave out over 150 hugs in less than hour! Everyone wanted a hug, from sweet elderly street vendors, wide-eye kids, couples on dates, hard-looking bikers, tourists—everyone! Spread the love! Give hugs today!

THANK YOU WENDY, DAVID AND WAYNE FOR YOUR SERVANT HEARTS!

My time in Taiwan could not have been made possible without the help of “Wendy” and her co-workers Wayne and David. Geez, this gal literally took care of me and my team from the moment we landed till the time we flew out! She was assigned by the conference hosts “Asia for Jesus” to serve us and make sure we had everything we needed at every moment we were there in Taiwan. She had every last detail down, she was there to not only pick me up, drop me off, bring me breakfast, lunch and dinner, make sure that I had everything I needed, and then if I wanted something would go out and get it, make it happen within a drop of a dime! WENDY AND HER TEAM ROCKS!! (Wait till you hear the story of how she got me a Panda suit in the next blog!)

All in all, she showed me love moment by moment, as well as Wayne and David. I am so so thankful. On our way to the airport I didn’t have time to go to a real flower shop cause I was ministering to the last hour before I got on the plane, but I was able to give Wendy and David a big hug, say a personal prayer for each of them and I picked a flower from a little pot (hehe) to give to Wendy to simply say … “thank you” for just being such a beautiful and wonderful person of a flower you are to me and my friends! LOVE YOU MUCH AND MISS YOU ALREADY WENDY, LIL WAYNE AND DAVID IN TAIWAN!!

SERVING DINNER TO OTHERS :)

I think each day I could blog about all the crazy exciting things that happen, God encounters, miracles etc but sometimes I think its best to just talk about the little acts of kindness that show your appreciation. This may not seem like a big one, but in Asian culture when it comes to eating together it is always loving and polite to not serve yourself first, but to serve others the dishes you have been given to eat.

Especially, when I am the speaker or guest I am constantly being served by others. By doing a little gesture of appreciation like instead of waiting for others to serve you food at dinner, you can take the time out to take the initiative to serve others first. This shows others that “it’s not about you” but that you recognize their service, love and hard work put in to bless you.

So at dinner tonight, I took the initiative to serve others dinner first before they could serve me. Everyone was like, “No no, serve yourself first.” I was like “no no, you don’t understand how thankful I am for you serving me all week!”

BELIEVING FOR A NEW NATION UNDER GOD IN TAIWAN!

On top of that, more and more amazing miracles happened at the Kingdom Culture revival conference. The last night, it was packed to the brim with over 10,000+ in the stadium, thousands healed, hundreds saved for the glory of Lord Jesus Christ in Taiwan. PRAISE HIM! God is GOOD! I also got to meet and pray with three media executives today in Taiwan of different companies controlling media in the nation, we got to dream, pray and hear God’s voice together for the future direction of Taiwan’s media influence…. God met us in each separate meeting in power… lets just say things are about to change in 2010 for Taiwan for the better!