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Congratulations Pei-Wen and Jun-Yien 王俊諺與曾珮雯婚姻聖禮!

Catherine Lee

Wedding Day at Advent Church for one of our former students, Pei-Wen and her new husband, Jun-Yien! Pei-Wen was baptized here at Advent Church while she was a student at St. John’s University and was active in the student fellowship.  As she lives locally, she’s continued to come along, and has brought Jun-Yien too.  Today lots of her old friends and classmates came back to celebrate and to help out, including singing a song for the new couple ~ so wonderful to see them, all looking very smart and very cool! Congratulations Pei-Wen and Jun-Yien, and may God bless you today … Continue reading Congratulations Pei-Wen and Jun-Yien 王俊諺與曾珮雯婚姻聖禮!

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Advent Church Summer Camp 2015 兒童喜樂營!

Catherine Lee

An amazing non-stop 2 days of fun, friendship, fellowship – and all on the theme of faithfulness….. 今年的主題:「天降信實-Faithfulness」，一個信實的生命是能誠實面對自己，喜愛並接納我原本的樣子，誠實做自己，並與自己、與他人、與自然萬物、與上帝建立信實的關係，成長歷程才不會隨著各種誘惑而迷失方向. Every year for about the last 20 years, Advent Church has held a holiday club / summer camp for local children in the community, run by students from the St. John’s University Chaplaincy Student Fellowship, helped by some of the church youth.  Always held on the first 2 days of the summer holidays – this year July 1 and 2. Non-residential but lasting all day, 9:00 am -4:00 pm with lunch included. This year we had about 30 student leaders and about … Continue reading Advent Church Summer Camp 2015 兒童喜樂營!

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St. John’s University Student Fellowship 2015 Farewell Party 團契送舊!

Catherine Lee

The last full week of term and the last student fellowship gathering for this school year, and so farewell to a lovely group of students ~ we’ll definitely miss you all! Some have been members of St. John’s University Student Fellowship for the last 4 years and graduated last weekend ~ and others have been here in Taiwan for a relatively short time and are returning home to Mainland China, so we said goodbye to them all on Thursday night in Advent Church…. The theme was Cosplay (literally “Costume Play” ~ meaning dressing up and pretending to be a fictional … Continue reading St. John’s University Student Fellowship 2015 Farewell Party 團契送舊!

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St. John’s University Farewells Retiring Faculty and Staff 歡送退休人員聚會!

Catherine Lee

Today St. John’s University said farewell to 6 faculty and staff who are retiring at the end of this academic year, next month in fact ~ and many of them looking far too young to retire!  But several have been here for 25 years, and all are full of plans for what they’re going to do next…. Actually one of them couldn’t come today, but the other 5 were all here – plus about 100 present (and just-retired) faculty and staff, including President Chen Jean-Lien – all here saying goodbye, laden with gifts and flowers!  The whole event was held … Continue reading St. John’s University Farewells Retiring Faculty and Staff 歡送退休人員聚會!

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St. John’s University Graduation Day!

Catherine Lee

Yesterday was a BIG BIG day ~ St. John’s University Graduation 2015 ~ YES! By 10:00am everyone had gathered ~ students, professors, SJU President Chen Jean-Lien, SJU Chair of Trustees, Dr. Cecilia Koo, VIP Guests and Alumni, SJU Chaplain Rev. Lennon Chang, Bishop David J. H. Lai and a whole host of photographers, organizers and of course parents and families ~ including lots of proud grandparents, all armed with bouquets of flowers and balloons.  And even several tiny pet dogs! The procession entered the Centennial Hall to the music of ‘Land of Hope and Glory’ and 2 hours later the whole … Continue reading St. John’s University Graduation Day!

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Welcoming Fr. Ramon Santacana from Providence University!

Catherine Lee

Once a semester, the St. John’s University Chaplaincy hosts a speaker for a lunchtime event ~ and today was the day!  Fr. Ramon Santacana is R. C. chaplain of Providence University, Taichung, and came to speak about Pope Francis, his life and witness.  We had 40 university staff, students and church members in attendance – and for lunch too.  Fr. Ramon is from Barcelona, Spain and has been in Taiwan for 25 years ~ he also shared his blog, canvascolor.blogspot.tw  of his oil paintings and his recent art exhibition in Barcelona ~ clearly very talented in art as well as in … Continue reading Welcoming Fr. Ramon Santacana from Providence University!

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Comings and Goings….

Catherine Lee

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….

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SJU 愛的團契佈道會 ~ 甦醒 special night!

Catherine Lee

And a special night it was! St. John’s University Student Fellowship holds a special night of outreach every semester, and last night was it ~ YEAH! But just in case you’re none the wiser for reading the above poster advertising the event, the main attraction was one of our good friends from Keelung, Evan, who shared his testimony ~ starting with his year of study at the London College of Fashion, then at Vidal Sassoon School of Hairdressing in London, then back to Taiwan to open his own hair salon, oh yes and Shanghai too ~ with photos of his … Continue reading SJU 愛的團契佈道會 ~ 甦醒 special night!

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From SJU ~ UK: Welcoming David Li to England!

Catherine Lee

David Li (yep we have the same surname, just a different way to write it!) is one of our former students at St. John’s University, Taiwan, and he was also an active member of our Chaplaincy student fellowship group. He graduated only a year or so ago and now with his military service all over, he’s had the chance to come to the UK to study English for 6 months.  He’s landed in Stratford-upon-Avon, and guess what? Until yesterday I’d never even been there. Disgraceful, indeed.  Home of William Shakespeare and all that, so thought it was about time I … Continue reading From SJU ~ UK: Welcoming David Li to England!