5th December 2014
Dear brothers and sisters,
Cwmbran, a small town in South Wales, has become a shopping centre for the people in the nearby towns and villages. There was a famous Chinese Restaurant in the last century and many Chinese and Westerners came here for food.
Many years ago, I had spent over 2 and half years in a takeaway shop there to do Bible-study with the Fujian workers. Some had moved to other cities and others had gone back home.
I went to Cwmbran on Wednesday and recalled a lot of memories. This time I went to conduct a funeral service for a young mum. Some social workers and volunteers attended the service, with the family members, friends, brothers and sisters from our church to console the husband and their 9-month-old son.
Life is full of uncertainties and we have never grasped it in our own hands, so no one can boast about tomorrow. Theses countrymen left their homeland, all with plans for themselves and their families, working hard day and night, but being lost in life’s path, how can they enjoy a happy life? ‘What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?’
The Fujian group met on Tuesday morning to plan for the ministries of 2015. ‘Because of your partnership in the gospel from the first day until now,’ (Phil 1:5) The monthly Fellowship is a meeting to bring their Fujian friends to Church; the Monday and Tuesday house Bible study groups continue in the east and west of the city, to be strengthened in God’s Word and to care for each other. More effort will be put on visitation for believers’ families and non-believers, there’ll be irregular training programs to equip Christians to serve as well.
We are confident that He who began a good work in us will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. We pray that our love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that we may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless, filled with the fruit of righteousness.
In Christ,
Sam Wong