Besides holding virtual services to mark Holy Week, a church in southwest China’s Sichuan Province helped special persons with donations.
Despite suspending all in-person gatherings, pastoral staff of Gracious Light Church in Chengdu provided money, rice, flour and cooking oil to poor families, sick and blind people in three districts and one town.
Some volunteers made a batch of Easter prints to distribute to believers, “bringing comfort and encouragement to them who were satisfied to the greatest extent”, according to Chengdu TSPM.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
由于疫情防控工作的要求和总体安排,基督教恩光堂实行“双暂停”,为此积极引导信教群众通过线上直播的方式参与礼拜,庆祝复活节。
恩光堂的教牧同工们从4月12日至18日分别到锦江区、成华区、天府新区和金堂县,对贫困家庭、生病和失明的人员带去了关怀,将慰问金,以及大米、面粉和食用油等生活物资,送到他们的家中。同时,还安排了部分义工,提前制作了复活节版画一批,陆续分发给信众。
复活节当天安排了晨更礼拜和复活节赞美崇拜,并以直播和录播相结合的方式分两场次进行,通过事后对部分信众的调查了解,达到了预期的目的,最大程度地满足了信众的信仰需求,也为疫情期间无法参加教堂礼拜的信教群众带来了安慰和鼓励,起到了引领作用。
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四川成都基督教恩光堂创新庆祝复活节
Besides holding virtual services to mark Holy Week, a church in southwest China’s Sichuan Province helped special persons with donations.
Despite suspending all in-person gatherings, pastoral staff of Gracious Light Church in Chengdu provided money, rice, flour and cooking oil to poor families, sick and blind people in three districts and one town.
Some volunteers made a batch of Easter prints to distribute to believers, “bringing comfort and encouragement to them who were satisfied to the greatest extent”, according to Chengdu TSPM.
- Translated by Abigail Wu
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