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| Hey Ya'llz,
If you've been keeping up with harvest news then you know that God is allowing
us to share in his work in China and it's been nutttssss. So when we go to China
for ALL of JULY you can be part of God's work overseas.
Team is - Gloria Sit, Phil Chang, David Pat, Virginia Perng
Here's what we are going to be doing with the local church and the orphanage
we're connected with:
Books: I will be publishing my first book in Mandarin this summer FINALLY and
also introducing my 2nd book which is going to be a coloring book about the
Gospel of Mark. Hopefully these resources will greatly serve the house churches
and the unsaved.
Teaching: We will also be doing Gospel sharing sessions in the house church and
as always we will hold Q&As since Harvest people love talking about theology
haha.
Orphans: We are going to have a Orphans Night Out! when we reach Gao Yao. We've
been blessed to share in the work at the orphanage and we don't just want to
teach about the Gospel but also show the orphan girls what it means to be loved
by God.
SOOOoooooo....
Plz pray everyday for us as we send you guys updates and also we need your
financial support because airplane tickets cost money. our trip totals to $7,500
for all 4 of us and we still need your support
You can address the mail and the checks to this address.
Harvest San Diego
7689 Palmilla Dr #1107
San Diego, CA 92122
Put Shanghai missions in the memo line!
Composed by David Pat- all spelling errors are attributed to Gloria Sit
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May 29, 2008 | By: John Piper
Category: Commentary
As I was working on the fifth volume of The Swans are Not Silent series about the lives of William Tyndale, Adoniram Judson, and John G. Paton, I found a letter written by Judson from Burma on June 25, 1832 with sobering counsel to missionaries.
Actually, these are hard and good words for all of us. Here are five of his points:
Fourthly. It may be profitable to bear in
mind, that a large proportion of those who come out on a mission to the
East die within five years after leaving their native land. Walk
softly, therefore; death is narrowly watching your steps...
Sixthly. Beware of the greater reaction which
will take place after you have acquired the language, and become
fatigued and worn out with preaching the gospel to a disobedient and
gainsaying people. You will sometimes long for a quiet retreat, where
you can find a respite from the tug of toiling at native workâthe
incessant, intolerable friction of the missionary grindstone. And Satan
will sympathize with you in this matter; and he will present some
chapel of ease, in which to officiate in your native tongue, some
government situation, some professorship or editorship, some literary
or scientific pursuit, some supernumerary translation, or, at least,
some system of schools; anything, in a word, that will help you,
without much surrender of character, to slip out of real missionary
work. Such a temptation will form the crisis of your disease. If your
spiritual constitution can sustain it, you recover; if not, you die...
Eighthly. Never lay up money for yourselves or your families. Trust in God from day to day, and verily you shall be fed.
Ninthly.
Beware of that indolence which leads to a neglect of bodily exercise.
The poor health and premature death of most Europeans in the East must
be eminently ascribed to the most wanton neglect of bodily exercise.
Tenthly. Beware of genteel living. Maintain as
little intercourse as possible with fashionable European society. The
mode of living adopted by many missionaries in the East is quite
inconsistent with that familiar intercourse with the natives which is
essential to a missionary.
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Hello everyone! I would like to remind on what's going on! Sorry things have been hectic and I might have been MIA...
Remember
to go to Campus EV, and Homeless Ministry whenever you can. The sermons
and "Let the Nations Be Glad" is now on your time to finish them, but
there will be a prompt on your Missionary Biographies on May 17.
May 3, this coming Saturday
is another workshop. Be at JK Wood at 6am SHARP or earlier. Failure to
comply will consequently result you to be in the merciful hands of Alex
Chiu. Please get a good nights sleep the day before- the day will be
hard-hitting and rough. Here are the requirements for the day:
6-12pm at JK Wood
No eating before coming
Bring water, running shoes, flip flops, exercise clothes (in missions dress code)
Bible, journal/note/pen (like any other workshop)
Next week, is missions retreat! All conflicts have been resolved and praise God we're able to participate in baptism! May 10-11, Saturday- Sunday.
We will be packed before baptism and loaded onto our respective cars to
go to baptism. After baptism, we will be leaving @ 10:45am for
Champagne Lakes. http://www.champagnelakesrvresort.com/map.html
Please bring $10 (but I doubt it'll cost that much) for food and camp- the price is still being worked out.
Sleeping bag, toiletries, flashlights, warm clothes, and missions clothes (it'll be hot), running shoes and sunblock.
We'll be back Sunday, 5pm.
I
would like those with cars to please email me back. I'm guessing we
need 5 cars. The road isn't rocky, but there is dirt and it's a nice
campsite.
I hope I didn't miss anything.
-Tiff Chu | | |
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A meeting is needed May 4, at 4pm. Please meet at my place as usual. I have a lot of cream cheese to share.
-Tiff Chu | | |
| April 4: Collect prayer letter, team bonding, Chpt 4-5 Let the nations be glad (Post FNF)
April 12: 1-5pm
Tarp, talk about Let Nations be Glad, Simulation, Practice bodyworship
April 19: Culture training 7-10pm, practice
May 3: 6am-12pm Unity and bondity, sharing and such
May 9-11 Missions retreat
May 17 Biographies
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