“Welcome everyone!” said Bishop Lennon Yuan-Rung Chang in his sermon at the Opening Service of the WACCF (World Anglican Chinese Clergy Fellowship) on Tuesday, April 9 at St. John’s Cathedral, Taipei, and “Thank you all for coming to Taiwan!” He … Continue reading The 12th World Anglican Chinese Clergy Fellowship (WACCF) 第12屆普世聖公會華人牧師團契會, April 9-12, 2024, Taipei, Taiwan
#MyAdventCalendar2021 #Day23: This is Melissa, second-year student of Creative Design at St. John’s University (SJU), also one of the leadership team of the Student Fellowship and in charge of tonight’s Christmas outreach event, the colours for which are blue, grey and white ~ the photo is taken against the stunning back wall they’ve designed for the occasion! She’s really amazing at leading worship, singing, dancing, design, art and music ~ in fact, she seems to be multi-talented in everything, and is such a blessing to our student fellowship. In the elections on December 30 for next year’s student fellowship leadership … Continue reading My Advent Calendar 2021: Day 23 ⛄👼🌟
#MyAdventCalendar2021 #Day22: This is 2-year-old Ethan, in his reindeer hat, in thoughtful pose ~ ah, we love him so much! He and his baby sister Eva keep us all entertained at our monthly diocesan office lunch gatherings in Taipei – including the one today. Ethan has won the hearts of all the diocesan office staff and all the visitors! Ethan’s mother, Sheerah is from Ipoh, West Malaysia, and for many years worked as their diocesan children’s worker. In 2010, she came with a diocesan team to lead ‘Kids Games’ training in Advent Church, and we’ve all kept in touch ever … Continue reading My Advent Calendar 2021: Day 22 🎶🎅🏽⛄
#MyAdventCalendar2021 #Day20: This is Shi-En 世恩, this year’s chair of St. John’s University Student Fellowship. He’s popular and outgoing, generous with his time and money, and his latest hair styles are always the talk of the town! Shi-En is a third year student in Leisure Sport & Health Management, and comes from Kluang, Johor, West Malaysia, where his family are members of Peace Assemblies of God Church 佳安神召會. Shi-En’s sense of identity coming from a Christian family is very strong. His name Shi 世 means ‘world’, En 恩 means ‘grace’, and he says his parents gave him this name hoping … Continue reading My Advent Calendar 2021: Day 20 ⛄🎁🎄
#MyAdventCalendar2021 #Day8: This is Tze-Wi 芷薇, our colleague at St. John’s University (SJU) Chaplaincy, Taipei; she and Yi-Ting 依婷 are both sponsored by the Taiwan Episcopal Church. Both are very talented & creative, and have put their skills to good use designing the Advent Church section of the diocesan website, it’s much admired by all our other churches! Together they organize all the many chaplaincy activities, and there’s always lots to do; coming up next is the SJU & Advent Church Christmas Bazaar, this year in aid of SOS Children Village in Chungli. Life is busy, busy, busy! Tze-Wi is … Continue reading My Advent Calendar 2021: Day 8 🎁🎄⛄
Yes, five days in Sabah is nowhere near long enough, but hey, it’s way way better than no days at all! And what a great place for five days ~ hot and sunny (and nowhere near as humid as Taiwan … Continue reading Delights of Sabah 沙巴 @ Kota Kinabalu 亞庇!
And what a camp it was! Two whole days of fun, laughter, games, water fights, action songs, drama, handicrafts, prayers and much more! The theme was ‘You’re Extra-Special’ – the initials of which happen to spell ‘YES!’… and that logo was on our dark blue T-shirts too, the YES is written into the shape of Advent Church… here’s some of us in the T-shirts! The summer camp happens every year at this time, with a large group of lovely students from our SJU Student Fellowship group who spend 2-3 days in training and preparation, followed by the actual camp, open … Continue reading Advent Church Summer Camp 2017 降臨堂兒童喜樂營 ‘YES! You’re Extra-Special!’
Today the clergy of the Taiwan Episcopal Church and their families gathered at St. James’ Church, Taichung to celebrate Christmas together – with a very special Thanksgiving Service led by Bishop Lai and the rector of St. James’ Church, Rev. Lily Chang, and followed by a fantastic lunch ~ joined too by the wonderful folk of St. James. The clergy came from all corners of the country, with an early start for many. Me too. But it was well worth it ~ so great to see everyone again! It is St. Stephen’s Day, and the church was red. Very red. … Continue reading Taiwan Episcopal Church Clergy Families Christmas Gathering 2016!
Ilam, a tiny little village in the Peak District, but oh so picturesque…. It’s also the home of Dovedale House, the Youth Retreat Centre of the Diocese of Lichfield. The diocese has a really good companion diocese relationship with the Diocese of West Malaysia, and hosts volunteers from Malaysia under the St. Chad’s Volunteers Scheme. So off I went southeast across the country via Ilam to call in at Dovedale House and say hello to their St. Chad’s Volunteer, Christopher, whose parents led a mission to St. John’s University and Advent Church, Taiwan a few years ago, and we all became … Continue reading Ilam, Staffordshire Peak District
Catherine Lee 