From the revised version of the book ‘Families in Ministry‘.
We live in a beautiful city in China – where every season seems like spring, where even the summer is filled with cool breezes, and a jacket is warm enough for winter. This is where our story started…
We fell in love in 1994, when Caleb was 22 and I was 23. But due to a variety of reasons, including the fact that our family did not support the relationship and we had very different personalities, we had many problems during our first four years together. It was an “on again, off again” relationship and we thought it might be better to just get married. So, in 1998, we took the leap and got married. I became pregnant eight months later – everything went well during the pregnancy and our daughter, Esther, was born the next year.