Rev Dr Cao Shengjie giving a sermon at the Thanksgiving Service for the 80 millionth Bible Celebration. Photo: UBSCP

Rev Dr Cao Shengjie giving a sermon at the Thanksgiving Service for the 80 millionth Bible Celebration. Photo: UBSCP

“The Lord has done a new thing, a wonderful thing, a great thing!”, declared Rev Dr Cao Shengjie in her sermon at the Thanksgiving Service for the Completion of the 80 millionth Bible held in Nanjing on 8 Nov 2010. Rev Cao is the Co-Chairperson of the Advisory Committee of the Church in China and former President of the China Christian Council. Rev Cao recounted the time of the Cultural Revolution when Bibles were confiscated and destroyed. The Chinese Christians were deprived of their Bibles during those years. She remembered when the Chinese Church leaders gathered for their first Standing Committee meeting after the end of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai in February 1980, they decided that one of their first urgent and important tasks was to print Bibles to meet the crying needs for the Word of God. Read more [...]
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Chen Guo Zi, 80, got her first Bible by the Bible-cum-medical van. Photo:UBS/ Dag Smemo

“I have been a Christian for 14 years but I have never had a Bible before. Today, I have received my very first Bible,” said Chen Guo Zi, 80, as she held her new Bible and cried. Mrs Chen is one of about 300 people who benefited from the debut journey last month of China’s first Bible and medical van, which has been deployed in Jiangsu Province. About 300 Bibles were distributed and about 70 people received basic medical care during the van’s visit to Shang Dang village, just over an hour’s drive from Nanjing, the provincial capital. The village church, set amid beautiful and fragrant fields of yellow rapeseed plants, was cheerfully decorated with pink balloons and colourful flags in celebration of the van’s visit. Read more [...]
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Rev Robert Wiebusch (left) giving a speech at the Celebration.(Photos: UBS/D.Soesilo)

SHANGHAI: “Ours is a partnership that, under God, has brought blessing and life and hope — dare I say — to millions of people all round the world.” This was a remark made by Rev Robert Wiebusch, Chairman of UBS Asia Pacific Area Board, referring to the Bible ministry partnership between the China Christian Council and the National Committee of Three Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China (CCC/TSPM) and the United Bible Societies (UBS). Rev Wiebusch leading a delegation comprising UBS Board Members, General Secretaries, Directors, Senior Staff and supporters coming from 20 different countries, representing 16 Bible Societies, joined top leaders from CCC/TSPM, SARA and other Chinese church leaders in this milestone celebration on 10 April 2010 commemorating 25 successful years of partnership under the Grace of God. Read more [...]
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