Campus Frontline: Our “Lingering” City, the Remaining us – Seeking the Courage to be Present (Issue 489)

“The world is in ruins, lingering in disintegration.
Clearly deserving of death and having lived long enough, break down the curse.”
— “Being Alive” by per se

The Hong Kong band per se’s song “Being Alive” is set in the background of the end of the world and speaks of the irredeemable future and the need to hold on to this moment of lingering around the verge of death. It is a paradoxical state, a threshold between life and death, at the edge of existence…

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Issue 489 Featured Article: Reflecting On the Past, Heading Towards 70th – A Fearless Heart Must Not Be Lost

FES 65th Anniversary Thanksgiving Gathering has been successfully completed. The theme of this gathering was “Reflecting on the past and heading Towards 70th”, which was not a reminiscence of the past or a review of past achievements. While all that FES has done for God in the past is important, Dr. Simon CHEUNG led us through Hebrews 10 to reflect on the many painful struggles we have endured. These experiences of enduring and not holding back have been the driving force behind our ability to…

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65th Anniversary Feature Article: Encouragements from Companions – Congratulations from Fellowships of Taiwan and Macau (Issue 488)

Together We Meet the Challenge and Bring Blessings to a Multitude of Lives

We are thankful to be able to offer blessings on this historic occasion of the 65th anniversary of FES. The Campus Evangelical Fellowship (CEF) of Taiwan is also celebrating its 65th anniversary this year. I hope that as I encourage you as brothers in the Lord, we can exhort each other as well.

Nowadays, all kinds of phenomena and cultures have emerged on the internet, all of which are issues that student workers cannot avoid today…

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Campus Frontline – Hide-and-Seek–ISO 2022 Joint School Fellowship Committee Training Day (Issue 488)

What is hidden is expected to be seen.
Sadness and Separation, the Holy Spirit consoles
Online and offline, Jesus accompanies.
Together or apart, the Father leads.
What is hidden will be seen.

These are the five lines on the ISO poster that outline the tensions of this year’s participants, who are engaged in the secondary school ministry. Finally, after more than three years of the pandemic…

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Special Feature – The Lord’s People Connected—A Journey of Two Generations (Issue 487)

We invited Wilson, a secondary school teacher and his two graduates, Gloria and Leo, to see how a graduate led his students to learn about FES and experience spiritual growth.

M> Please share the most profound experiences you have had with each other.
G > We first met Mr. So through our Secondary School Fellowship and he was our mentor. I was impressed by how Mr. So often led some amusing and good relationship-building games in the fellowship…

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Campus Frontline – Inter-College Summer Program (Issue 487)

Our Inter-College Department organised “Please Give Me a Cup of Cold Water Internship Program” and the “Student Ministry Internship Program” (which was renamed as “Student Ministry/Media Ministry Internship” after combining with the Literature Internship Program this year). In addition, this year we organized the “Creation Care Summer Internship Program” for the first time, to go out into the interpersonal network of campus, the Internet and the community, and to step into a wider ecological network to restore…

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Issue 487 Featured Article: Pause and Space at PAUSE SPACE – An Introduction to the Pause Space Ministry

Pause [pɔːz]
It means “temporary cessation of an action or speech” with synonyms “stop, suspend, rest…”.

The PAUSE bookshop was opened in 2014, using books as a medium for people to rest, read and think. In response to changes in the times, resources and manpower reallocation of FES in recent years…

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