Henan Church: on Prayer and Children

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Apr 212011
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A vibrant worship service at a Henan Church. Photo: UBS/Dag Smemo

Henan Province: In one of the major cities in Henan, the 140,000 Christian residents of this city gather in 425 meeting points led by 9 ordained pastors, 27 elders and 1,100 lay preachers. Every year about 20 people from this city apply to enter the Henan Bible seminary but only half are accepted. Graduates of the seminary return to the churches and preach, thus providing more needed help to the over-worked pastors. Read more [...]
Posted by pamchoo at 10:46 am Children, Henan 河南, Jiangsu 江苏, Shanghai 上海

Telling Stories, Teaching Truths

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Apr 122011
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Excited children holding up their Bibles.

Henan: Seated on the cold, hard cement floor of a makeshift classroom was 8-year-old Zhang, listening attentively to her teacher reading a story from a pictorial Bible. Little Zhang was so captivated by the story-telling that she did not mind or even notice the freezing temperature in the cluttered room which was also used as a cooking and washing area for the church. Read more [...]
Posted by pamchoo at 12:35 pm Children, Henan 河南, Jiangsu 江苏, Shanghai 上海

80 Millionth Bible Celebration: The Lord Has Done a New and Wonderful Thing

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Nov 172010
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 [...]
Posted by pamchoo at 5:19 pm Amity Printing Co, History, Jiangsu 江苏, Shanghai 上海
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