On November 13, Haikou Road Church in Changchun, Jilin Province held a Thanksgiving meeting to celebrate the fall harvest.
A pastor shared a sermon “To Offer With a Grateful Heart" using the story of the offering of a poor widow from Mark 12:41. After the sermon, believers continued to sing and dance to praise and thank God in performances.
The church also held activities to respect and honor the elderly for believers over the age of 70 through singing, prayers, and blessings. They even prepared a gift - blankets for everyone.
Last Friday, the church also organized a prayer meeting online with the theme of "The Boundless Love of the Lord Year after Year".
Ever since the "Thanksgiving month", under the leadership of Senior Pastor Yan Peng, the pastoral staff have used a positive sentence to express gratitude every day to encourage more members and inquirers to be grateful.
The sentences are as follows: "Where there is gratitude, there is heaven”; “those who do not hesitate to be grateful hold the key to blessing in their hands.”; “a grateful heart contains happiness, and "a happy heart grows gratitude"... These "gratitude" sentences have been passed on to each other in their friend circles and are also forwarded and spread by believers' families and even non-Christians.
Most of the students once taught by Pastor Yan have graduated and work in their own mission fields, but they have not forgotten their mentor. Over the past year, they have participated in the daily intercessory prayer program of the church. Pastor Yan also sent gifts to them on this special day with a writing of blessings for each of them.
- Translated by Tracy Ye
吉林长春海口路教会11月13日是秋成感恩节暨敬老孝亲节。
听孟繁智牧师藉着圣经马可福12章41节穷寡妇的奉献，为他们分享的《献上感恩的心》。证道过后，信徒们载歌载舞，继续以他们的方式赞美感恩上帝，也表演节目。
教会也为70岁以上的老弟兄姊妹们隆举行了敬老孝亲活动，为他们献唱，祈祷，祝福，还为每个人都准备了一份精美暖心礼物——毛毯。
上周五，教会还在线上平台组织了一场以《一年又过一年 主爱无量无边》为主题的祷告会。
自进入“感恩月”以来，在闫鹏主任牧师的带领下，教牧同工们每天表达一句关于感恩的正能量句子，以此来激励更多的弟兄姊妹和慕道朋友能心怀感恩。
“对于任何事情都心存感恩，那么当下你所在的地方就是天国”、“不吝惜感恩的人，手里握着祝福的钥匙”、“感恩的心蕴含幸福，幸福的心生长感恩”……这一段段感恩的语句还在朋友圈互相传递，还被信徒们的家人，以及社会各界人士转载传播。
闫牧师曾经教授的学生们大多都已毕业，奔赴自己所在的禾场，但他们没有忘记自己的恩师，一年来，他们都有参与海口路教会的每日守望祷告。闫牧师也在这特别的日子里特意为他们送上礼物，并亲自为他们每个人写一段祝福。
吉林长春海口路教会举行秋成感恩节聚会
On November 13, Haikou Road Church in Changchun, Jilin Province held a Thanksgiving meeting to celebrate the fall harvest.
A pastor shared a sermon “To Offer With a Grateful Heart" using the story of the offering of a poor widow from Mark 12:41. After the sermon, believers continued to sing and dance to praise and thank God in performances.
The church also held activities to respect and honor the elderly for believers over the age of 70 through singing, prayers, and blessings. They even prepared a gift - blankets for everyone.
Last Friday, the church also organized a prayer meeting online with the theme of "The Boundless Love of the Lord Year after Year".
Ever since the "Thanksgiving month", under the leadership of Senior Pastor Yan Peng, the pastoral staff have used a positive sentence to express gratitude every day to encourage more members and inquirers to be grateful.
The sentences are as follows: "Where there is gratitude, there is heaven”; “those who do not hesitate to be grateful hold the key to blessing in their hands.”; “a grateful heart contains happiness, and "a happy heart grows gratitude"... These "gratitude" sentences have been passed on to each other in their friend circles and are also forwarded and spread by believers' families and even non-Christians.
Most of the students once taught by Pastor Yan have graduated and work in their own mission fields, but they have not forgotten their mentor. Over the past year, they have participated in the daily intercessory prayer program of the church. Pastor Yan also sent gifts to them on this special day with a writing of blessings for each of them.
- Translated by Tracy Ye
Haikou Road Church in Changchun Celebrates Thanksgiving Day
