員林召會福音傳揚的實行

The Gospel Preaching Practice in Church in Yuan-Lin

　For Chinese people, the Chinese New Year eve is a very important day. In that day, no matter how far you are, wherever you are, as possible as you can, just back home to celebrate. Have family reunion, around the furnace, have big feast, wear new clothes, parents or grandparents give money & blessings to their kids, next generations honor them & speak good words back. Do fire works, congratulate each other, … Many traditional activities,

　Next day, the new year morning, everybody visit their neighbors, bless & congrats each other. After the new year day, all the daughter-in-law with their husbands & kids back to visit their own parents.

　Basically these activities all belongs to or inside that family, not include outsiders. So when I heard of we will join the host family’s traditional feast “around furnace” , & preach gospel to their gentile relatives , this is really a breakthrough. For me, this is never happened, is really a new experience.

　Then the new year eve came, 2 host family join together, invite their neighbors, relatives, & some international students, came from Malaysia & Mongolia. After the rich feast, in a very nice atmosphere, we spontaneously start to sing the hymnals. Under the Holy Spirit operation, the saints share their saved testimonies one by one. Everyone feel so touched & so sweet. The other host brother have very brilliant & happy face, but before he got saved he was in darkness. He share, due to he want earn more money, so he want more time to keep awakening, so he taken drugs. Gradually whatever he earned all the money pay drugs. Then he & his whole family fell into a poor & bad situation. One day he & his wife believed & baptized into Jesus Christ, he experienced the living & all-sufficient God in many aspects. His whole family have a revolutionary change. Deliver him out of the authority of darkness & transferred him into the kingdom of the son of His love. Finally a sister’s husband got saved & baptized. Originally in that day morning they want to filing divorce. Praise the lord!

　Weekly basis My host open their home have gospel love feast for the young generation & college students. They practice God’s ordained way, for the Lord’s recovery to propagate God’s kingdom. Their labor in the Lord will never be in vain.

In Him

Peace Liu. 劉葛衍勤 姊妹

Church in Ontario

員林召會福音傳揚的實行（譯文）

對中國人而言，農曆年的除夕是非常重要的日子。在那一天，不管你身處多遠，不管你身在何處，總是要盡你所能地回家慶祝。圍爐與家人團聚，喫頓大餐；穿上新衣，祖父母或父母給壓歲錢並祝福孩子們，晚輩們則以尊敬和美言回應長輩們；放炮竹並互相恭喜…等，許許多多的傳統活動。

隔天大年初一的早晨，人人拜訪他們的鄰居，祝賀恭喜每一位。大年初二，所有的媳婦要帶着他們的丈夫和兒女們回娘家。

基本上這些活動皆屬於或在自家之內，不包含外人。所以當我們聽到，我們將與我們的接待家庭一起圍爐，並傳福音給他們的外邦親人，心想這真是個突破。對我而言，這從未發生過，並且真是個全新的經歷。

除夕那天到了，兩個接待家合在一起，共同邀約他們的親友，和一些從馬來西亞和蒙古來的國際學生。在豐盛的筵席之後，在一個非常甜美的氣氛中，我們自然而然地唱起了詩歌。在聖靈的運行之下，聖徒們一個接一個地分享他們得救的見證。大家都非常的摸着並感到甜美。一位接待的弟兄有着非常閃亮喜樂的面容，但在他得救之前卻完全在黑暗之中。他說得救前，由於他想要賺更多的錢，就需要更多的時間，所以他就施打毒品以保持自己精神。漸漸地，他所賺得的錢，都花光在毒品上了。他和整個家就掉入了貧窮糟糕的光景中。直到有一天，他和妻子信入並浸入了耶穌基督，他就在多方面經歷了這位活的並全豐全足的神。於是他的整個家庭有了革命性的大改變。他從黑暗的權勢中被救拔出來，並遷入了神愛子的國裏。聚集之後，一位姊妹的丈夫得救並受了浸。在這之前，他們正打算要離婚。讚美主，救恩到了這家！

我的接待家庭，每週為着年輕的一代和大專生，打開家有福音愛筵。他們為着主的恢復開展神的國，實行神命定之路。他們在主裏的勞苦絕不是徒然的。（安大略 劉葛衍勤  彥謀譯）