Members from two churches in Zhejiang and Anhui visit the patriotic education site of Jiaojiang church in Zhejiang.
On the afternoon of August 8, 2022, the worship team members of the Xianju church in Zhejiang arrived at the Jiaojiang church and took the tour of Hexie Garden, which is a patriotic education site, the Anti-cult vocation site, and the Shiliuhong station. The committee members and worship team members of Jiaojiang church greeted and talked with them, reported the church.
At the meeting, Teacher Kong Aiqing introduced that the Jiaojiang church has a history of 156 years. In the early 1920s, Jiaojiang church joined the Church of Christ in China and set up its own Christian self-governing group. During the war of resistance against Japan, it formed a propaganda group to counter the Japanese invasion and save the nation. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the church participated in the Christian Manifesto and the Three-Self Reform Movement. He added that it not only carried out activities to eliminate illiteracy but also vacated church space for the government to build public schools. On the eve of liberating Yijiangshan Island, it served the troop and peasant army as their depot and training behind the front line of the battlefield.
A few days ago, Rev. Guan Chengming, the chairman of the Three-Self Patriotic Committee of Protestant Churches at Lixin County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, and his colleagues visited the church, including the "Five Entries" (one of the Sinicization of Christianity) campaign construction and patriotic education site. The two sides held discussions on the direction of further practicing Christianity in the Chinese context.
Kong accompanied the guests on the tour of a church’s functional section, Hexie Garden, and introduced a variety of displayed historical relics from the war of resistance against Japan. These included a porcelain cup from the conquest of the Qing dynasty, a silver cup for the July 7 Incident, the Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Medal, and other materials as criminal evidence, each of which was evidence of the crime by Japan for the invasion of China.
Rev. Guan, the person in charge of Chengguan Church in Lixin County, Bozhou, Anhui, is currently responsible for the construction of his hometown church, of which the main infrastructure is almost complete and is awaiting inspection. Rev. Guan said that through this visit, he would go back and work with his fellow workers to keep working on promoting the Sinification of Christianity and publicizing patriotism as well as anti-cultism, so as to become a window for local patriotic education. Learning this, Jiaojiang Church donated 3,000 yuan and other believers made donations to support them in building the church.
- Translated by Stella He
浙江和安徽一教堂来到浙江椒江堂的爱国主义基地参观，并且开座谈会。
2022年8月8日下午，仙居教会乐队成员来到椒江堂，参观和谐园爱国主义教育基地、反邪教教育警示基地和石榴红驿站。椒江堂委同工和乐队成员接待，并与椒江堂乐队座谈交流。
座谈会上，孔老师介绍，椒江堂有着156年的历史，教会秉承爱国爱教，荣神益人的原则。在上个世纪20年代前期，就参加中华基督教会组织 ，并组建基督教自治小组。抗战期间，组建了抗日救亡宣传小组。新中国成立后，参与中国基督教爱国宣言、三自革新运动。开展扫盲教育活动，腾出教堂空间 ，提供给政府办学堂。解放一江山岛前夕，接待部队、支前民工临战驻扎训练。
日前，安徽省亳州市利辛县基督教三自爱国运动委员会主席管成明牧师一行来到椒江堂，实地参观椒江堂“五进”建设、爱国主义教育基地，双方就进一步践行基督教中国化方向进行座谈交流 。
孔爱卿陪同客人参观教堂的区块功能和谐园爱国主义教育基地，介绍了阵列的各种历史遗物，有日本侵华战争：征清瓷杯、七七事变银杯、南京大屠杀纪念章、资料等罪证，每一件藏品都是日本侵华时留下罪证。
管牧是利辛县城关堂的负责人，目前，他负责在建教堂，主体基建基本上完成工，期待验手。管牧说，通过此次参观交流，回去和同工一起，把坚持基督教中国化宣传做好，把爱国反邪的宣传做好，成为当地的爱国主义教育宣传窗口。椒江堂为帮助他们建造教堂，奉献3000元。另有信徒知道，乐意奉献爱心。
安徽，仙居教堂来访椒江堂
Members from two churches in Zhejiang and Anhui visit the patriotic education site of Jiaojiang church in Zhejiang.
On the afternoon of August 8, 2022, the worship team members of the Xianju church in Zhejiang arrived at the Jiaojiang church and took the tour of Hexie Garden, which is a patriotic education site, the Anti-cult vocation site, and the Shiliuhong station. The committee members and worship team members of Jiaojiang church greeted and talked with them, reported the church.
At the meeting, Teacher Kong Aiqing introduced that the Jiaojiang church has a history of 156 years. In the early 1920s, Jiaojiang church joined the Church of Christ in China and set up its own Christian self-governing group. During the war of resistance against Japan, it formed a propaganda group to counter the Japanese invasion and save the nation. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the church participated in the Christian Manifesto and the Three-Self Reform Movement. He added that it not only carried out activities to eliminate illiteracy but also vacated church space for the government to build public schools. On the eve of liberating Yijiangshan Island, it served the troop and peasant army as their depot and training behind the front line of the battlefield.
A few days ago, Rev. Guan Chengming, the chairman of the Three-Self Patriotic Committee of Protestant Churches at Lixin County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province, and his colleagues visited the church, including the "Five Entries" (one of the Sinicization of Christianity) campaign construction and patriotic education site. The two sides held discussions on the direction of further practicing Christianity in the Chinese context.
Kong accompanied the guests on the tour of a church’s functional section, Hexie Garden, and introduced a variety of displayed historical relics from the war of resistance against Japan. These included a porcelain cup from the conquest of the Qing dynasty, a silver cup for the July 7 Incident, the Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Medal, and other materials as criminal evidence, each of which was evidence of the crime by Japan for the invasion of China.
Rev. Guan, the person in charge of Chengguan Church in Lixin County, Bozhou, Anhui, is currently responsible for the construction of his hometown church, of which the main infrastructure is almost complete and is awaiting inspection. Rev. Guan said that through this visit, he would go back and work with his fellow workers to keep working on promoting the Sinification of Christianity and publicizing patriotism as well as anti-cultism, so as to become a window for local patriotic education. Learning this, Jiaojiang Church donated 3,000 yuan and other believers made donations to support them in building the church.
- Translated by Stella He
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