hello hello! Welcome to our blog! Our team has decided to update this blog instead of sending out individual email updates because
1) we share many of the same friends so some prayer partners would be getting 4 emails about the same thing,
2) this is a little more time efficient, and
3) wouldn't you agree that this is more visually pleasing? :)

Note about the blog title: it's called Tales from the Motherland mainly because I thought that was catchy haha. None of us were actually born in China or Taiwan... Greg's family is from the Philippines! But all of us do felt drawn to East Asia so maybe it could be our pseudo-motherland for the next little while :)
Note about the blog address: mege = acronym for Melody, Esther, Greg, and Emily. "mege" is also one letter away from "mega" so you can try to remember our blog's URL by purposely misspelling "megatrip" :)

Anyway, thank you so much for your support of our trip - we appreciate all the encouragement that we have received and the prayers that have been prayed on our behalf. We know that it would be impossible for us to take this journey alone so we're glad you're taking it with us.

Come back soon for more updates - hopefully we can post a mini bio of each member and some prayer requests before we go. Until then, thanks again, we hope you have a lovely week :)