Easter Greetings to you all, if a little late! Christ is risen, alleluia! Lent has felt extra-long this year, particularly because of the tragic war in Ukraine – now on its 54th day, but also the pandemic – with lockdowns … Continue reading Easter Joy! ❤️🐣🌼
#MyAdventCalendar2021 #Day24: This is the very lovely Cai-Pei 采沛, just arriving now at St. John’s University (SJU), and all ready for her baptism during tonight’s Christmas Eve service ~ and she gets the largest Teddy Bear chocolate in the Advent Calendar! Ah, she’s so happy! She comes every Sunday to Advent Church from her home in Taoyuan, having graduated last year from SJU in Creative Design, a classmate and good friend of Yi-Ting who works on our SJU Chaplaincy staff and the one who originally invited her to join the student fellowship. They also did their senior project together on … Continue reading My Advent Calendar 2021: Day 24 🌟🕯️🎄
#AdventWord #Baptize Much like John the Baptist, it seems as if we are currently living in the wilderness waiting and preparing ourselves to be faithfully transformed by Jesus. And although this transformation may be filled with uncertainty and fear, John is calling us to trust, to turn back to the source of life and forgiveness, to renew our commitment to strive for justice and peace. As we journey into this new season out of the wilderness, let us receive Christ’s love and grace in our hearts and strengthen the bonds we share with each other through our baptism. Sleeping peacefully … Continue reading Advent Word 2020, Day 12 ‘Baptize’
Hot off the press comes my CMS Link Letter, No. 74. Just in time for Chinese New Year – YES! And just in time for this coming weekend, mentioned in the letter. Just click on this link below, it’s in pdf format: Catherine Lee 74 The letter was actually written on January 24, 2018, and published by CMS (Church Mission Society) today. Thanks to CMS for getting it out in time. And thank you all for your ongoing support! Continue reading CMS LINK LETTER # 74!
Baby Jacob, Chinese name: 牧霖 Mu-Lin, was baptized today at Advent Church, on his first outing to the church since his birth 2 months ago ~ and he slept the whole time he was with us! His father and mother are so delightful ~ praying for this lovely family and the grandparents who were there too ~ they speak Chinese, Taiwanese, English and Tagalog between them, so hopefully baby Jacob will grow up to be multi-lingual! Continue reading Baptism Day @ Advent Church!
St. John’s University and Advent Church is THE place to be for Christmas, and especially when Christmas falls on a weekend ~ last week we had a whole week of Christmas activities in the university and local community, and now we’ve just had a whole weekend of activities in the church. It’s all non-stop action ~ and it’s back to work and classes tomorrow as usual! We really kind of moved from Advent into Christmas starting on Thursday December 22 in the afternoon when we did our final walkabout around St. John’s University, lighting all the candles on the Advent … Continue reading Merry Christmas 2016 @ St. John’s University and Advent Church!
The highlight of Christmas Eve at St. John’s University every year is our Christmas Eve Service in Advent Church, well-attended by students, church members, local people and visitors ~ YES! Last night the service started at 7:30pm, and we also had 2 baptisms ~ a gorgeous 2-month-old baby, son of our lovely church members; and one of our SJU Student Fellowship students in his 4th and final year, who was supported by all the Student Fellowship. We started the service in darkness, then with candles ~ BEAUTIFUL! And we finished the service with rice porridge and birthday cake! Thanking God … Continue reading Christmas Eve @ Advent Church!
Been away in the UK for 7 months and so much has happened in my absence. Out in the big bad world, as usual more has changed in 7 months in Taiwan than in the UK over the whole previous 3½ years that I’d been away ha ha! In Taiwan, new buildings, new businesses, new roads, new Metro Stations, new everything keeps appearing – but in the case of people, some have left and can never be replaced! Quite a few staff here at St. John’s University retired while I was away, including Mrs. Chao from our chaplaincy office – … Continue reading Comings and Goings….
Catherine Lee 