Ah, THE DAY finally arrived! YES! After years and years of waiting ~ they’ve FINALLY made it down the aisle, tied the knot, had the obligatory kiss AND the wedding blessing! CONGRATULATIONS! Advent Church on Saturday February 10 at 2:00 … Continue reading Wedding Blessings and Celebrations for our beloved Setu and Jacob!
SJU is definitely a happening kind of place during Advent and Christmas! Taiwan doesn’t have any holidays for Christmas, so apart from weekends, the students are here in classes all over Christmas, the office staff are working all over Christmas, … Continue reading Advent & Christmas 2017 @ St. John’s University (SJU) & Advent Church, Taiwan
Every year in mid-November, St. John’s University holds a Coming of Age Ceremony (成年禮) for all of our first-year university students ~ plus SJU President Ay, faculty, alumni, tutors and staff. The event is organized by the St. John’s University Chaplaincy, and takes weeks of preparation for our chaplaincy staff and the student fellowship team ~ but it’s all worth it, and every year we thank God for another successful event! It’s also got high praise from the Ministry of Education too. And it all happened yesterday afternoon! The students (and tutors) this year all had special red SJU ties, … Continue reading St. John’s University Coming of Age Ceremony (成年禮) 2017!
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!’
A beautifully sunny day at Advent Church for the wedding of our former student, Mr. You Bo-Min 游博閔 and his lovely wife, Ms. Hsu Ying-Ping 徐穎蘋 ~ congratulations to them both ~ and their families! Here they for the group photo, titled ‘The Kiss’! Actually, Bo-Min has always been known to us as A-Bu-La 阿不辣, a good nickname for a fun guy, who loves to act and dress up and do imitations of people and pull faces and make everyone laugh – all the time, that how I remember him! He’s now 28, and for the 4 years that he was a … Continue reading Happy Wedding Day Mr. You Bo-Min 游博閔弟兄 and Ms. Hsu Ying-Ping 徐穎蘋姊妹!
Yes, this past week has been the final week for our final year students ~ congratulations to them all! Last Thursday night, our student fellowship had a big farewell event for the 7 student fellowship members who are graduating. We all wore masks! Of the 7 students, 3 of the boys are student fellowship leaders, Pi-pi is last year’s chairperson, and En-Zhe and Bin-Huan also assist in the leadership ~ and all 3 are very much part of the praise and worship team. Their gift to the student fellowship was to publish a praise and worship book of favorite songs … Continue reading St. John’s University Graduation 2017!
An amazing week of 50th anniversary celebrations ~ and many many congratulations to St. John’s University. This is the grand blowing out of the candles and cutting of the cake! But first a bit of history…. ‘St. John’s University, Taiwan … Continue reading 50th Anniversary Celebrations @ St. John’s University, Taiwan 聖約翰科技大學50週年校慶!
Yes, it’s all happening at St. John’s University! New changing rooms and fencing for the swimming pool are on the horizon ~ and yesterday the rain stopped just in time for the Ground-Breaking Ceremony ~ yippee! Our SJU Chair of Trustees, Mrs. Cecilia Koo 辜嚴倬雲, who funded the original construction of the SJU Zhuo-Yun Swimming Pool 倬雲游泳池 (倬雲 Zhuo-Yun being the 2 characters of Mrs. Koo’s given name) unfortunately could not be with us for the ceremony, but SJU President Ay and many of the faculty, administrative staff and students joined us for the occasion. The old changing rooms have … Continue reading St. John’s University Ground-Breaking Ceremony for New Changing Rooms 倬雲游泳池附屬建築物新建工程動土典禮!
Hot off the press comes my latest Link Letter published by Church Mission Society ~ click on the link below… lee-71 Enjoy! Continue reading CMS Link Letter # 71
Catherine Lee 