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One of Cultural Relics Protection Sites - Nuofu Church Was Built by Rev. William Marcus Yong, American Baptist Missionary, in 1921.
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The Word Is the Blessed Gospel Light!
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The Choir of Wa's Peace Church
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Fellowship Time
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Full Load of Love Offering to Share With
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Learning Hymn in Wa Language
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Sharing at Wa Church
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A Sweet Visit
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Chatting with Wa Sisters
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Lahu's Welcome Drum Dance
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With Christian Training Center's Principle
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A Warm Welcome with Those Beautiful Traditional Lahu Outfits
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Giving the Encouragement to One of the Lahu Churches
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Sheep and Pasture
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Preaching at Yunnan Theological Seminary
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With Sisters of Ethnic Yi People
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Chatting with Seminary Student
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Preaching on Weekday's Evening Worship Service at One of Lisu Churches
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Craft Time at Nujing Christian Training Center
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The Youngest Student in the Christian Training Center
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Thanksgiving Celebration Worship Service at One of Lisu Churches
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Preaching at Wa's Peace Church
During our
commissioning service in 2013, our home church, Karl Road Baptist, sang “Send
the Light” to encourage and bless us before going to the mission field. Three years later (2016) on our first Yunnan
ministry trip, at the Wa’s Peace church Sunday worship service, the choir sang
“Send the light, the blessed Gospel light; Let it shine from shore to shore!
Send the light, and let its radiant beams light the world forevermore!” in Wa
language before Ivy preached. To hear
their singing “Send the Light”, please click https://youtu.be/drGIytCqAKM Our amazing God used this song to confirm
our call to serve Him! The “Send the Light”
in Wa language is “Ploi Pa Riang”. It was collected in “Wa Hymn Book”, which was
published in 1934 by Rev. Vincent Young and his Wa colleagues. In the same way, the song was also translated
to Lahu language as “Aw G’eu Paw Pi Lo” and was collected in their “Lahu Hymn
Book”. As we saw a hundred thousand Wa
and Lahu Christians in Yunnan today, we thank and give praise to God who sent
the missionaries, the William Marcus Young (Previous American Baptist Foreign
Mission Society missionary) family, to share the “Good News” to the Wa and Lahu
peoples on 1912.
In 2016,
besides visiting the Wa and Lahu churches, we also visited the Lisu
churches. Lisu people have the most
ethnic minority Christian population in Yunnan.
Rev. James Outram Fraser (Previous British Protestant Christian
missionary to China with the China Inland Mission) sowed the seeds in 1908. We
learned a lot from reading his biography Mountain Rain. He compared evangelism in the mission
field to a man walking in a dark and damp valley, holding a torch to ignite a
fire. No matter how hard he tries by
himself, he cannot ignite anything.
However, through God’s wind and sunshine He Himself preserved some dry
places suitable for starting fires. One
man's lighted fire became many fires.
Although the man with the first torch had already passed through the
valley, the fire was still burning. This
is what God asks us to do, ignite a fire.
Many small fires can bring God's light to the world.
Last
February, we revisited the Children Center of Evangelize China Fellowship in
Macau. We rejoiced to see that the
children had become stronger and more mature.
They kept the church going weekly.
The superintendent told us that some of Ivy’s Sunday school students
were baptized after we relocated to Hong Kong in late 2015. A few days after we returned to Hong Kong,
Emerson got a text message from an ex-Sunday school student who now studies at
a university in Beijing, China. The
message said, “I was so scary to meet a lady.
She invited me to her church and said her church believes two gods; one
is male and another one is female. Since
it was not what I learned from Sunday school, I turned down the invitation.” Amen! Later on, this student told Emerson that she
and another ex-student from the Center will be baptized this summer. “Therefore go and make disciples of all
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the
Holy Spirit.” (Matthew 28:19) Praise to
be the Lord for His grace! Thank God for
His love pouring down to those abandoned children.
God uses
our new Global Chinese Training ministry to open many opportunities for those
who are willing to serve His Kingdom among the Chinese people near and
far. The Yunnan ministry needs Christian
training teachers. The call of “Come over to Macedonia and help us!” is intense and strong. Two seminaries in Taiwan and one church in
Hong Kong have requested IM to send missionaries to help them with theological
education and developing an English worship service. If you have sensed a burden for His Call,
please come to join us to “Send the light, the blessed Gospel light.”
Times
flies! We have been on the field for
almost four years, and we will return to the US in mid-July this year for one
year of US/PR assignment (Deputation.)
Here is our current upcoming schedule when we return to the US. If you are near any of these places, please
come and let us personally thank you! If
you’d like to set up a gathering, please contact our MPT. We would love to hear from you!
Our MPT contact: Mrs. Carol Kirn Telephone: 614-436-4629 or Email: carol.kirn@yahoo.com
AUGUST
5 -12 Philadelphia
and New Jersey
18 -31 West Pennsylvania and Ohio
SEPTEMBER
1-30 Ohio and Indiana
OCTOBER
1 Karl Road Baptist Church, Columbus, Ohio
3-4 ABC Ohio Annual Gathering
9 Return
to SF, CA
22-31 Work trip in Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok
NOVEMBER
1-22 Work trip in Asia: China
23-30 SF, CA
DECEMBER
1-31 West Coast, The Bay Area and Los Angeles
Thank you for your love, prayers and support.
May you
have a very blessed Easter! May God
bless you all!