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School Office 1405 E. Fallbrook Street Fallbrook, CA 92028 Phone (760) 723-3500 Fax (760) 723-3951
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School Principal: Ms. Nancy E. Swanlund |
Thursday, February 21 @ 6:30PM (Mr. Fischer's classroom) It is with a great deal of excitement that we invite you to hear, first hand, about the Mission and Ministry Trip for next year's eighth grade students. We have a significant amount of information to share with you, including some very exiting developments regarding our school's China mission project! Therefore a special meeting for all parents of grade seven students is being held in Mr. Fischer's classroom on Thursday, February 21st, at 6:30 PM. It will be an informational sharing evening followed by a time for you do direct questions to students, parents, and teachers who participated in this year's trip. Please mark the date in your calendar! Blessings, Mr. Dan Fischer 2007 Zion’s China project Team Returns! Thank you for your continued support! 8th Grade students, parents, and supervising teachers’ thank you for your prayers and support on their recent biking and service project trip to China Oct 25–Nov 6. A team of 17 students and 14 adults participated in this year’s 12–day adventure. As ambassadors for Christ and Zion, the team considered it both a blessing and privilege to participate in service projects made possible by your generous support through chapel offerings, recycling of plastic and aluminum, personal mission contributions, and prayer.
The twelve day adventure begins in Hong Kong where the group will spend its first two days exploring the former British colony. The “core” of the trip is a seven day biking trip through the countryside in rural southern China. The trip is planned to coincide with the final rice harvest, so there is always plenty of activity out in the rice paddies.
When not cycling, students keep busy conducting interviews (aided by an interpreter) with people they meet along the way. Students also participate in school exchanges, make home visits to our scholarship recipients, worship in a local Chinese Christian church and enjoy a fascinating cross cultural experience.
Zion’s missions/service projects in China
are organized by the Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation of
China, an organization affiliated with the Lutheran Church.
Meet Pastor Liu & His Family
Pastor Liu and his wife play an instrumental role in both planning our service projects AND making house calls on all the people we assist. It’s when he makes those followup calls that the Gospel is shared. His two sons are: Liu Shuo (age 10 ˝) and Liu Enyu (age 7 ˝).
Through a clever "Change for Chores" program, Mrs. Sarah Roesler's 2nd graders helped provide a wheelchair to a disabled recipient in China.
Previous offerings from Zion Lutheran School have helped to provide a motorcycle for Pastor Lui. He uses it to make house calls in Deqing which is a very hilly area!
China Trip Itinerary A–Draft #2 (June 2007)
Day One & Two Thursday/Friday/Saturday October 25-27, 2007 All students, parents and teachers will rendezvous at LAX at 9PM, Thursday evening, Oct. 25th and check in with Mr. Fischer at the Tom Bradley International Terminal. Cathay Pacific flt. # 883 departs at 11:50PM taking us directly to Hong Kong. After the thirteen hour flight we will arrival in HK at 5:40AM Saturday morning, October 27th. We will travel by chartered bus from Hong Kong International Airport to a full day of activities including: Wong Tai Sin Temple, the Flower Market, Bird Street, followed by an early (11:00 AM) lunch in Ocean Terminal. We will take the world famous Star Ferry to HK Island and take the 1:00PM ferry to Yung Shue Wan Village on Lamma Island and hike across the island to Sok Kwo Wan. There, we will enjoy an early seafood feast before taking the scenic, 6:05PM ferry to Aberdeen. From there our chartered bus will take us to St. Stephen’s College in Stanley or to Repulse Bay (7:00PM) and Tai Tam (7:30PM) where you will be picked up by your host family.
Day Three Sunday October 28, 2007 Breakfast (at St. Stephen’s College in Stanley or with your host family). You will arrive at the (Lutheran) Church of All Nations in Repulse Bay by 10:00AM. for the 10:15 A.M. worship service. After worship, we will take a chartered bus to the Hopewell Center in Wan Chai. The balance of the day will be spent touring parts of Hong Kong Island. Wan Chai Market, enjoy an incredible Chinese meal at the American Restaurant (12:30 PM), Western Market, Ladder Street, Central District, St. John’s Cathedral, and Victoria Peak via the Peak Tram (4:30PM). We will hike around the top of Victoria Peak prior to dinner at the Peak Café at (6:15PM). Return to Repulse Bay and Tai Tam via chartered bus. Evening at St. Stephen’s College or host family.
Day Four Monday October 29, 2007 We will all take our chartered bus from St. Stephen’s College (6:15AM) Tai Tam (6:00AM) or Repulse Bay campus (6:20 AM) to the China Ferry Terminal at 33 Canton Road in Kowloon. We will have breakfast in the ferry terminal before boarding the 8:30 AM high-speed ferry for the two and a half hour trip to Jiangmen. Bring a lunch to eat on the ferry or purchase one aboard ship. In Jiangmen we will be met by our Chinese host: Pecky Yang. From Jiangmen we will travel by bus to KaiPing. Students will be assigned a bicycle and cycle from the port through the city of Kai Ping and out into the countryside. During our afternoon ride we will bike along the south side of Camgong River to Chikanzhen and then take a dirt road into Baisha. In the early evening we will bus to Taishan (a very historically fascinating city!) and spend the evening at the China Travel Service Hotel for Foreign Born Chinese in down town Taishan. Dinner will be followed by a tiny teach (TT): “The Taishan/US Connection” and an evening “walk-about” to see Taishan at night.
Day Five
After breakfast we will prepare for a very full day of biking! The route will include: Duanfen – Chonglou (bus from Chonglou to Doushan) tour a basket factory on the outskirts of Doushan. Four kilometers outside Doushan is the Chen family “Floating Moon Village” where there are 13 Gold Mountain Mansions. Bike all the way out to the reservoir where our biking day will conclude. When we run out of sunlight, we’ll bus back to Taishan. Evening activities in Taishan.
Day Six Wednesday October 31, 2007 Students will visit Taishan’s wet market and then prepare for a moderate (40 km) day of biking: Taishan – Sanhe – Baisha – west towards Sanba – into the city of Kai Ping. The evening will be spent at the Sanbu Harbor View Hotel. After dinner we will visit a local Middle School in KaiPing where we will sing a few songs and have a wonderful opportunity to visit with Chinese students.
Day Seven Thursday November 1, 2007 Thursday is dedicated to our service projects in the KaiPing area. The activities may include a visit to a high school where some of our scholarship recipients attend, making home visits to the students that we support and possibly making a wheel chair presentation. The activities are being planned for us by Concordia Welfare and Education Foundation staff members. In the evening we will be the guests at “English Corner”, a weekly event hosted by the Christian Church of KaiPing that enables local students to come and practice their English. (7:30–9:30 PM) Evening in KaiPing.
Day Eight Friday November 2, 2007 The group will travel by bus to the city of Magong and then spend the rest of the day biking north towards our evening destination: Longshan, about 17 km south of Sunhing(Xinxing). Evening at Longshan Foreign Merchants Entertainment Center.
Day Nine Saturday November 3, 2007 After breakfast we will visit an ancient Buddhist monastery and then bike the “reservoir run”: Siu Hing Tin – Miu Dong – Gongchen – Sunhing (Xinxing). We will then travel by bus back to KaiPing. Evening in KaiPing.
Day Ten Sunday November 4, 2007 We hope to have the opportunity to worship in a Chinese Christian Church. Our plan is to attend the 9:00 AM worship service of the Church in Chickazen headed by Evangelist Peter. We will teach Sunday school and participate in morning worship. After worship we will have lunch prior to boarding 1:30PM ferry for the trip back to Hong Kong. We will eat dinner in Hong Kong and spend the evening at the International House Hotel: Hong Kong Baptist University or with your host family.
Day Eleven Monday November 5, 2007 Our final day in China is largely a “free” day to shop and explore. All students are to meet at the front gate of HKIS High School in Tai Tam at 9:00 AM. We will take a brief tour of the school and visit the “Dragon Shop” where the HKIS sweatshirts are sold. Afterwards we will split into small groups each led by a Hong Kong tour guide and visit Stanley Market. Later in the day you can take the #6 bus into Central and continue your explorations. Go wherever you want, just be sure that your group is at Fat Angelo’s in the Hopewell Building for a wonderful meal at 1:30 PM. After lunch you will continue to explore Hong Kong with your guide and wrap up the day by visiting the Night Market in Kowloon. Return to your hotel prior to 9:30PM.
Day Twelve Tuesday November 6, 2007 (Tuesday is lived twice: we cross the dateline) Following breakfast at the hotel our group will be picked up by a chartered bus at 9:30 AM in Repulse Bay and 9:50 AM at the Tai Tam campus and 9:50 at pickup at the International House Hotel. We will drive to Hong Kong International Airport for the flight back to Los Angeles. We will take Cathay flight #884 which arrives in Los Angeles at approximately 11:40AM Tuesday morning. The group will need to clear immigration and customs and should be ready to exit the International Terminal at approximately 12:30PM. (please call Cathay to confirm arrival terminal) There, the students will be greeted by wildly elated parents . . . |
Did You Know... In China, that the family name is always said FIRST, for example, "FISCHER DAN".
Chapel offerings... given by the students of Zion have gone a long way in furthering several projects in China.
Mei-Yan pictured above with Mr. Fischer was a recent scholarship recipient (A wonderful result of Zion Lutheran School offerings!)
Pecky Yang, one of our key hosts in Mainland China and one of our best interpreters.
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2008
China Mission Trip Meeting for 7th Graders
In
the Fall of each year, eighth
grade students and their parents have the opportunity to travel to the
People’s Republic of China and take part in the school’s annual China
Biking and Service Trip. 
The
service projects involve providing assistance to needy families with
education expenses for their children and helping families who have
handicapped members. The funding for these projects comes from the
children’s chapel offerings, plastic and aluminum can collections, and
donations from people like you! If you are interested in making a
donation to our project fund, please make your checks payable to Zion
Lutheran and mark them for use in the China Missions Fund. 
"Change
for Chores" Program
Tuesday October 30, 2007 
