My good brother Luosang has been at our home visiting for the past 3 days. We have really had a great time and it will be sad to see him leave to head back home early tomorrow morning!

It has been over 2 years since I first met Brother Luosang in a small town in the middle of the Tibetan Plateau. We met through mutual friends and have managed to keep in touch and grow our friendship over the past couple of years.

One of the coolest things about meeting Luosang is to see how many things we have in common! All though he is a local Chinese brother, we both do basically the same thing as a ministry.

- I am mobilizing Latin American Christians to take the Gospel to Asia's minorities, especially to Tibetans and Muslims.

- Luosang is mobilizing Chinese Christians to take the Gospel to Asia's minorities, especially to Tibetans and Muslims.

- I am doing a lot of research on the culture, geography, and languages of the minority people in the region we live in.

- Luosang is doing much research on the culture, geography, and languages of the people in the region where he lives.

- I am looking to use simple businesses (tentmaking) as a way to help our missionaries effectively 'get in' to a culture.

- Luosang is looking to use the same business model as a way for his Chinese missionaries to enter a new culture.

I think these are some of the reasons why Luosang and I get along so well. We've always got something to talk about or encourage one another with. We also have many ways of helping each other out, and of sharing knowledge back and forth. For example, he helps me with my Chinese and my understanding of Chinese culture. And I help him learn a bit of English and learn how to surf the web.

But there is one major difference I am discovering between the way that our ministry and Luosang's ministry function.....