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A Journey of Grace by Yu Soon Sing

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Jan 162012

Ms YU Soon Sing (right) posing with a Miao older lady holding her new Bible. Photo:BSS

From September 16th to 20th, I, a 71 year-old, had the privilege of participating in a Bible Distribution Trip to China organized by the Bible Society of Singapore. Our mission was to distribute Bibles to various churches in the Yunnan mountainous area in China. Although our mission was tough, our work was a journey where we experienced God’s Grace daily. A brother-in-Christ asked me, “What were your thoughts on the trip?” My reply was, ‘I received much more than what I gave!” We went to Zhaotong City which was located in the heart of the northern Yunnan plateau, a gathering place for the Miao minority group. The Miao people lived in shabby houses where water and electricity are scarce. Read more [...]
Posted by pamchoo at 11:12 am Distribution, Minority Language People, Yunnan 云南

Literacy Classes with a Biblical Twist

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Jan 042012

Mentoring System: The younger lady (R) helping an older lady in a literacy class. Photo: UBSCP/Yeo Tan Tan

SHAANXI: Many poor people in China have never been to school before. One 17 year-old girl from a rural area in Shaanxi province did not even know how to hold a pen, let alone write her name. Another elderly lady had problems knowing which public restroom to go into as she could not read the Chinese character for “male” and “female” written on the door of the cubicle. These real-life stories told to us by 24 year-old Bible School student Meng Juan were just some of many reasons why it was expedient to run a Scripture Literacy class at the local church. Read more [...]
Posted by pamchoo at 11:45 am Literacy, Shaanxi 陕西

Come Celebrate Christmas: The Chinese Way

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Dec 132011

Yu Kai (young lady in white)

28 year-old backroom operations and sales worker Yu Kai, shares about the heart of service, love, fellowship, outreach and her personal thoughts about what Christmas meant to her. In the following text, Yu recounts how Christmas was celebrated by a small church congregation in the outskirts of Beijing City. “Like many young people in China, I left home and traveled a long way for work, from Anhui province to the outskirts of Beijing City. The local town population had lost many young people as many had left to study or work in the other cities. Only the elderly stayed in their hometowns. Read more [...]
Posted by tantan at 4:46 pm Beijing 北京, Outreach
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