You may have heard the call to go on your short-term mission (STM), but you also need to be in the right place at the right time. Like Isaiah, you may be able to say, Here I am! Send me (Isaiah 6:8) – but may not have the faintest where to go, with whom, or know the duration of the STM.

My students enjoyed doing a quick-write using this excerpt from Eve Bunting's novel SOS Titanic.

The button-covered servitor had no doubt but that his sovereign's answer would be in reply, Then he may go; but he was mistaken, for Lady Anne had discovered that she looked well in her beautiful lace nightcaps, as most people do when their flesh has fallen away, and they are verging to the lantern jaw;...

North of Tainan is Matou, a small and mostly uninteresting place except for its temple.