Issue 495-Church, What Is Your Image?
Barry CHUNG, General
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Monthly Prayer Letter (Dec 2023)
I hope you enjoy a peaceful and loving Christmas. Apart from celebrating the birth of our Savior at Christmas, I also meditate on the life of the baby Jesus. According to the Gospel of Matthew, the newborn baby Jesus went from the “holy scene” into “exile” to escape from King Herod. Herod was so determined that this king of the Jews would not survive that he killed all the boys in and around Bethlehem who were two years old and under (Mt. 2:16-18). After Herod’s death and the succession of his son to rule Judea, Joseph, still afraid to go there again, moved his family back to Galilee and settled in the city of Nazareth, where Jesus became known as “the Nazarene” (Mt. 2:23).
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Campus Frontline: Inter-School Orientation (ISO) for Fellowship Committee Members 2023 #MappingtheJourneyTogether
In the constant state of extreme climate, Inter-School Orientation (ISO) for fellowship committee members in October took place under Typhoon Signal No. 3. We are thankful for not only the unusual weather this year, but also the unusual students—the number of students who insisted on attending the event despite the typhoon was close to 80% of the total number of enrolments, which was about 150 students from 23 secondary schools. Most of the participants are young and emerging after the pandemic, but they are also a new generation that is open to faith and service; though their faith is shallow, they have a freshness that “wipes out the gloominess of fellowship”. Although greater effort is needed now than before the pandemic to engage with the community, most of the students have shown their commitment throughout the whole process, and there has been no lack of a joint school atmosphere with each other…
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