A church in China’s northeastern Jilin Province conducted online services and activities during the Holy Week, as the COVID-19 cases have recently continued to surge.
On April 10, Haikou Road Church in lockdown held an online Palm Sunday service, starting the virtual gathering activities during this year’s Passion Week.
Senior Pastor Yan Peng said the themes of the services were “self-sacrifice and self-control”, “repentance, fasting, self-denial, and love” and church members are divided into three large groups and several small groups. These online gatherings could cover almost all the congregation, who were encouraged to learn theological knowledge, traditions and spiritual practices.
In order to better hold these online Passion Week worship services, the church has made arrangements for eight days of activities, including scriptures for reading, sermons, and hymns. Rev. Yan preached one sermon on the first day of Holy Week with the theme of "The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem" and the other sermon titled "The Lord Jesus is Risen" on Easter Sunday. From Holy Monday to Holy Saturday, several pastors gave sermons, as well as led believers to read the Bible. On the evening of the day of fellowship on April 14, the church is to host an activity titled "Meditation of Seven Words on the Cross" in a WeChat group which is praying for the end of the epidemic in Jilin. On April 17, the end of Holy Week, a virtual praise and worship service is to be held.
At the end of service, believers will make offerings and will have insisted on praying on the Internet for more than 1180 days.
Mainland China last Sunday reported 1184 confirmed COVID-19 cases (187 in Jilin Province) and 26411 asymptomatic carriers (797 in Jilin), according to the National Health Commission of the PRC on April 11.
(The article is originally published by the Gospel Times.)
- Translated by Abigail Wu
2022年4月10日，是棕枝主日（“圣枝主日”或“主进圣城节”），仍处在疫情“双暂停”的吉林省长春市海口路教会开启了今年的受难周网络崇拜聚会活动。
据闫鹏牧师介绍：海口路教会的2022年网络圣周崇拜聚会主要是“克己苦身，节制有度”、“悔改、禁食、克己、爱心”。活动主要是由教会的三个大群和若干小群、小组组成，基本覆盖全体信徒，信徒们同时、同步每天进行聚会活动。教会在谈到受难周的重要意义时鼓励会众学习丰富的神学、传统及灵修教导。
教会为了更好地举行此次网络受难周崇拜，对八天的活动，包括读经经文、传道人讲道、赞美诗歌等均做了安排。闫鹏牧师从受难周第一天棕枝主日以《耶稣荣入圣城》为题，开始证道，然后在最后一天主复活线上崇拜宣讲《主耶稣复活了》，为主证道，作为结束。其余的各个圣周日期每天早上举行线上崇拜，由几位传道人分别带领会众读经并讲道。4月14日团契日晚上，教会在“疫情止息吉林平安群”举行《十架七言默想》活动。在圣周结束的4月17日，教会在组建的网络赞美群里开始为主复活赞美敬拜。
最后信徒们通过网络主动奉献当纳的。教会的信徒们已经坚持在网络祷告了1183天，
据国家卫生健康委员会官方网站4月11日消息，4月10日0—24时，31个省（自治区、直辖市）和新疆生产建设兵团报告新增新型冠状病毒肺炎确诊病例1184例。吉林187例， 新增无症状感染者26411例，吉林797例，
（福音时报特约撰稿人报道；感谢海口路教会提供的照片。）
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吉林长春海口路教会开启受难周崇拜
A church in China’s northeastern Jilin Province conducted online services and activities during the Holy Week, as the COVID-19 cases have recently continued to surge.
On April 10, Haikou Road Church in lockdown held an online Palm Sunday service, starting the virtual gathering activities during this year’s Passion Week.
Senior Pastor Yan Peng said the themes of the services were “self-sacrifice and self-control”, “repentance, fasting, self-denial, and love” and church members are divided into three large groups and several small groups. These online gatherings could cover almost all the congregation, who were encouraged to learn theological knowledge, traditions and spiritual practices.
In order to better hold these online Passion Week worship services, the church has made arrangements for eight days of activities, including scriptures for reading, sermons, and hymns. Rev. Yan preached one sermon on the first day of Holy Week with the theme of "The Triumphal Entry Into Jerusalem" and the other sermon titled "The Lord Jesus is Risen" on Easter Sunday. From Holy Monday to Holy Saturday, several pastors gave sermons, as well as led believers to read the Bible. On the evening of the day of fellowship on April 14, the church is to host an activity titled "Meditation of Seven Words on the Cross" in a WeChat group which is praying for the end of the epidemic in Jilin. On April 17, the end of Holy Week, a virtual praise and worship service is to be held.
At the end of service, believers will make offerings and will have insisted on praying on the Internet for more than 1180 days.
Mainland China last Sunday reported 1184 confirmed COVID-19 cases (187 in Jilin Province) and 26411 asymptomatic carriers (797 in Jilin), according to the National Health Commission of the PRC on April 11.
(The article is originally published by the Gospel Times.)
- Translated by Abigail Wu
Jilin Church Marks Holy Week Virtually
