Farewell to St. John’s University President Chen Jean-Lien!

St. John’s University President Chen Jean-Lien is retiring this month after 8 years at the helm, and today was our Grand Farewell and Great Send-Off Day!  The ceremony and buffet lunch was held in our new church centre at Advent Church, emceed by Shu-Jing from our chaplaincy office, and attended by faculty, staff and students.  Sadly the Chair of the SJU Board of Trustees, Dr. Cecilia Koo was unable to come at the last moment ~ fortunately Bishop Lai was in attendance, representing the trustees.  We had speeches, flowers and gift presentations, songs from our student fellowship and a very … Continue reading Farewell to St. John’s University President Chen Jean-Lien!

Advent Church Centre Moving In Day!

Not just a day, more like Moving In Week with the students helping on Thursday….. Then more students helping on Friday, and then on Saturday, anyone available was welcomed to Advent Church to sort out, clean up, throw out and move in!  Since the old kitchen was demolished and the construction started 2 years ago, all the kitchen stuff and musical instruments etc have been in storage in the back of the church during that time. The Sunday School and choir have also moved to the new centre.  On Saturday about 30 people turned up for a day of hard … Continue reading Advent Church Centre Moving In Day!

The Grand Opening of the brand new Advent Church Center @ St. John’s University, Taiwan! 聖約翰科技大學 長齡生命關懷中心 落成感恩禮拜 YES!

Thanks be to God ~ YES!  And this is it ~ our brand new Advent Church Center in the sun yesterday! Thanks be to hundreds of people who contributed their money, time and resources ~ YES! And thanks be to everyone who came along to participate in the grand opening events ~ note the plural, we’ve had 2, yes TWO grand openings, one for the church and community on Sunday June 5…. and one for St. John’s University (SJU) yesterday, Tuesday June 7…. And guess what?  There’s another grand opening celebration still being planned, for the SJU alumni, who’ve been … Continue reading The Grand Opening of the brand new Advent Church Center @ St. John’s University, Taiwan! 聖約翰科技大學 長齡生命關懷中心 落成感恩禮拜 YES!

St. John’s University Graduation 2016!

And another big milestone is reached, another group of SJU graduates is launched ~ ‘n many congratulations to them all! Today’s graduation was spectacular, as always – faculty and students gathered in gowns and mortar boards, parents and friends gathered with bunches of flowers and balloons, and the procession into the hall was led by 3 of our student fellowship students carrying the cross and 2 candles, and followed at the very end by chaplain Rev. Lennon Chang and Bishop Lai. We were delighted that our lovely friend, Su-Chin, who runs around the campus every day cleaning and sweeping and … Continue reading St. John’s University Graduation 2016!

St. John’s University Student Fellowship 聖約翰愛的團契送舊晚會 2016 Farewell Party!

‘So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye’ ~ to all our lovely graduating students! Last night was their farewell party in Advent Church, organised by the SJU Student Fellowship group ~ YES! We have 13 or so of our student fellowship graduating, and most of them came last night, the boys in suits, everyone very formally dressed.  One of our 4th year students, Yi-en, is currently in San Francisco on a student exchange program, so she participated via webcam, and as it was the early hours of the morning in California, she kind of laid there in bed watching us all … Continue reading St. John’s University Student Fellowship 聖約翰愛的團契送舊晚會 2016 Farewell Party!

Wow, such an amazing day! JJ 廖健均 & Anny 蔡昀臻’s Wedding @ Advent Church!

And the first ever wedding reception in our newly-finished-and-about-to-be-opened-next-weekend brand new Advent Church Centre ~YES! It was a beautiful sunny weekend for a very special wedding ~ always helps to have good weather for the tossing of the bride’s bouquet, and this time it was perfect! And the lucky girl was so happy! In fact everyone was so happy ~ and much due to the Tsai family, ah, they are so much loved by us all! Mr. 蔡秉桓 Tsai Bing-Huan is one of our most mature and active members of St. John’s University Student Fellowship ~ he’s just great, so polite, … Continue reading Wow, such an amazing day! JJ 廖健均 & Anny 蔡昀臻’s Wedding @ Advent Church!

聖約翰49週年校慶 St. John’s University welcomes President Ma Ying-Jeou 馬英九總統!

Yes, welcoming President Ma for the official unveiling of the St. John’s University Zhuo-Yun Building 倬雲樓, and this was THE moment! So today was the big day ~ and the sun was shining ~ YES!  Just look at that blue sky at 8:00 am this morning ~ those in suits were sweltering! Taiwan’s President Ma Ying-Jeou officially steps down as R.O.C. president on May 20, so this was his final visit to St. John’s University as president ~ and he was here especially for the official unveiling of the Zhuo-Yun Building 倬雲樓, named after Dr. Cecilia Koo 辜嚴倬雲 (倬雲 Zhuo-Yun being the 2 characters of … Continue reading 聖約翰49週年校慶 St. John’s University welcomes President Ma Ying-Jeou 馬英九總統!