Increased Case Numbers

News from our county, especially the Town of Baozhong is that the number of domestically transmitted cases of COVID is rising quickly.  Here are two charts for our county from the Public Health website.  Baozhong is highlighted in the red box.  These numbers are the new cases reported each day for April 22 and 23.

There are reports similar to those above published each day.  For each town there is the total number of new cases and a listing of the report numbers for the individual case numbers beside.  It is possible to get additional information on the location of the specific cases on another site.

What doe this mean for those living in the affected area?  Schools are closed for disinfecting, and classes are once again online.  Church services, including Sunday School, are being broadcast online with no in-person services. (Church leaders decided to do this in order to keep people safe.)

• Please pray for God to have mercy on those who are affected.
• Please pray that the fear of sickness will not harden people’s hearts making them unwilling to listen to the gospel.
• Please pray that God will stop the pestilence.

Praise and Prayer

• Praise the Lord we were able to submit the request of document authentication (similar to notarization) at the Taiwan Consular Office.  We can pick up the document on May 3.  Then we can send all of our documentation to Taiwan for application to extend our resident permits.  Thanks for praying and continuing to trust God for the completion of the process.
• Pray that people will be protected during the Omicron outbreak happening in Taiwan.
• Pray that COVID can be contained so that the government feels confident to once again accept visa applications.  There are new workers waiting in Canada for Taiwan to start granting visas again..