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Advent Church Community English Class ~ ah, Monday afternoons are such fun!

Catherine Lee

Today was our get-together ‘Happy Ending’ lunch to mark the end of another wonderful semester of Community English Class at Advent Church ~ and what a great lunch it was! Thanks to all who came and all who worked so hard to make such delicious food!  Here we all are, including specially invited guests, Rev. Lennon Chang and his wife, and Mr. Jiang’s brother and his wife, who is the former minister at Sanzhi Presbyterian Church ~ but minus 3 of our regular group who didn’t quite get here in time for the group photo! In case you’re wondering what … Continue reading Advent Church Community English Class ~ ah, Monday afternoons are such fun!

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Advent Church Community Concert 2016 社區音樂會!

Catherine Lee

Our annual community concert at Advent Church last night to celebrate Mid-Autumn Moon Festival – and to give the local community a chance to come together to perform and celebrate. A great variety of choirs and groups and individuals as always, all wonderful!  We had all sorts of music, from musicals to pop to classical, from indigenous aboriginal to traditional Chinese, from ancient to modern, from Bunun to A-mei to Taiwanese to Chinese to Japanese to English, and everything in between….. loved it all! And the highlight is always the Bunun Church Choir who perform last, and they were wonderful … Continue reading Advent Church Community Concert 2016 社區音樂會!

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小太陽 Advent Church Children’s Summer School 2016!

Catherine Lee

The first week of our Advent Church Children’s Summer School ~ running all summer, all day, Mondays to Thursdays, with a mix of Bible classes, homework, arts and crafts, games, computer classes etc etc, and all run by 3 of our students with the help of church members and clergy, and being held in our new church centre ~ so do please pray for them all! Fun, fun, fun ~ yes, yes, yes! Continue reading 小太陽 Advent Church Children’s Summer School 2016!

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2016 降臨堂 ‘奔向節制’ 兒童喜樂營 Advent Church Children’s Summer Camp!

Catherine Lee

You’d never believe that anyone could have so much fun and laughter on a summer camp, and see so many smiling faces on all the children, when the theme of the summer camp is – guess what?  Potentially the world’s totally least attractive and least interesting theme for a summer camp ever!  Particularly when the key elements of a summer camp are always fun, fun and more fun! Every year Advent Church holds a 2-day non-residential summer camp (like a holiday club) for children aged 5-12 ~ those in the local community plus children of staff and faculty at St. … Continue reading 2016 降臨堂 ‘奔向節制’ 兒童喜樂營 Advent Church Children’s Summer Camp!

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Mother’s Day @ Advent Church ~ Taiko (豐收擂鼓 Lei-ku) Drum Performance!

Catherine Lee

We have a new group at Advent Church learning Taiko Drums 豐收擂鼓班 and after only 2 months of lessons, this is their first public performance ~ for today’s Mother’s Day Service at Advent Church! Has to be said that those at this end wished I’d been filming the others at the other end ha ha ~ but it was fun at this end!  I found it impossible to keep up with them the one time I tried ~ so a wonderful performance from them all! Continue reading Mother’s Day @ Advent Church ~ Taiko (豐收擂鼓 Lei-ku) Drum Performance!

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北海岸聯合詩班頌讚暨聯誼 Amazing Choir Festival @ Advent Church!

Catherine Lee

Scattered around here and further along the coast are several small churches with amazing choirs, and yesterday Advent Church was packed for our first choir festival ~ YES! The main inspiration for the choir festival came from our church members, Sheng-Feng and his lovely wife, who between them seem to be related to, or friends with, everybody in every choir in the whole area!   Choirs were invited from Sanzhi Presbyterian Church, Dan-Nung Bunun Church, Advent Church and the Teachers Choir from TamKang High School. During the choir introductions, Sanzhi Presbyterian Church said that unlike most Presbyterian Churches in Taiwan … Continue reading 北海岸聯合詩班頌讚暨聯誼 Amazing Choir Festival @ Advent Church!

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Happy Easter @ Advent Church!

Catherine Lee

From darkness to light! Christ is Risen, Alleluia!  耶穌復活了! Our Easter celebrations began with the Easter Vigil at 8:00 pm on Saturday, Easter Eve, with the lighting of the Easter fire, and then the first lighting of candles.  After days of heavy rain, the sun had actually been out all day, and although it was very cold, it was dry, yes!  We were delighted to welcome one of our students involved with our chaplaincy at St. John’s University,  Mei-Han, who was baptised during the service.  The church looked beautiful, the choir were amazing, and it was a very moving and … Continue reading Happy Easter @ Advent Church!

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Good Friday 受難日‬@ Advent Church

Catherine Lee

A few highlights of our lunchtime service at Advent Church today…. The sermon took the words of John 18: 37-38… “You are a king, then!” said Pilate. Jesus answered, “You say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.” “What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him. 彼拉多問：「真理是甚麼？」Pilate asked, ‘What is truth?” ‘‎真理‬'(zhēnlĭ) ‘‎Truth’‬ ‪~ the Chinese characters … Continue reading Good Friday 受難日‬@ Advent Church