Some pastors and volunteers in cities and mountainous areas of China’s southeastern coastal Fujian Province were cared for and aided by a local church.
Fujian Yueshan Landscaping Co., Ltd. and Kuai’an Church in Fuzhou City conducted the third annual joint activity of visiting pastors before the Spring Festival on January 3 in West-Fujian Christian Training Center in Longyan City, said Longyan CC&TSPM.
At the symposium caring for paid pastoral staff and full-time volunteers, Rev. Lin Xinning, president of Mawei District Christian Council in Fuzhou and senior pastor of Kuai’an Church, introduced the origin of the activity. Supporting and donating to the construction and repair of churches, believers rarely care for pastors who serve silently in mountainous areas. Especially in some poor mountain villages, some clergy receive meager salaries but do their best to nurture Christians, which touches pastors and staff workers of Kuai'an Church, which carries out the event to help impoverished pastors better serve God.
Rev. Zeng Desheng, president of the Longyan Christian Council, introduced the basic condition of churches and pastoral staff teams in Longyan City, speaking highly of the act of the church which itself has a shortage of funds for reconstruction.
It is said that the visiting team also went to distribute 400,000 yuan to 220 pastoral staff and volunteers in five places of Nanping City and Ningde City, traveling nearly 2,000 kilometers in six days.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
中国东南沿海的福建省的一些牧者得到关怀和授予慰问金
据龙岩市基督教两会，2023年1月3日，由福州快安基督教堂与福建粤山园林绿化有限公司联合组成的爱心关怀组一行4人，于龙岩“闽西基督教培训中心”大楼开展第三届关爱牧者春节慰问活动，慰问龙岩市基督教全市专职教牧同工、专职义工。
在座谈会上，福州市马尾区基督教协会会长、快安基督教堂主任林信宁牧师介绍了关怀牧者的缘起：当前各地教会兴建、修缮教堂往往得到很多弟兄姐妹及兄弟教会支持与帮助，但那些在山区默默牧养教会的牧者却少有人关心。特别是一些经济条件薄弱的山区教会牧者，他们领取微薄的薪资却仍秉承主爱尽心竭力牧养。如此景象深深触动了快安教会牧长、同工，于是便有了开展关怀牧者行动，让他们更好地服侍教会、服务信徒。
龙岩市基督教协会会长曾德胜牧师向慰问组一行介绍了龙岩市基督教基本情况与教牧同工团队。曾牧师表示福州快安基督教堂自己在教堂建设方面虽有缺乏，却践行“施比受更为有福”的圣经教导。
据了解，除慰问龙岩市基督教全市专职教牧同工外，爱心关怀组还赴南平市光泽县、南平邵武市、宁德市屏南县、宁德福安市，六天五地近二千公里行程，惠及专职教牧同工、专职义工220人，发放爱心款40万元。
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福建教会开展关爱牧者春节慰问活动
Some pastors and volunteers in cities and mountainous areas of China’s southeastern coastal Fujian Province were cared for and aided by a local church.
Fujian Yueshan Landscaping Co., Ltd. and Kuai’an Church in Fuzhou City conducted the third annual joint activity of visiting pastors before the Spring Festival on January 3 in West-Fujian Christian Training Center in Longyan City, said Longyan CC&TSPM.
At the symposium caring for paid pastoral staff and full-time volunteers, Rev. Lin Xinning, president of Mawei District Christian Council in Fuzhou and senior pastor of Kuai’an Church, introduced the origin of the activity. Supporting and donating to the construction and repair of churches, believers rarely care for pastors who serve silently in mountainous areas. Especially in some poor mountain villages, some clergy receive meager salaries but do their best to nurture Christians, which touches pastors and staff workers of Kuai'an Church, which carries out the event to help impoverished pastors better serve God.
Rev. Zeng Desheng, president of the Longyan Christian Council, introduced the basic condition of churches and pastoral staff teams in Longyan City, speaking highly of the act of the church which itself has a shortage of funds for reconstruction.
It is said that the visiting team also went to distribute 400,000 yuan to 220 pastoral staff and volunteers in five places of Nanping City and Ningde City, traveling nearly 2,000 kilometers in six days.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
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