A church in northeast China's Liaoning Province has a 13-year-old fellowship of 40 to 50 deaf people, the Heart Spring Deaf Fellowship in Xingsheng Christian Church in Tiexi District of Anshan, the steel city of China.
On the morning of August 14, 2022, Xingsheng Church in Liaoning Province held the sacrament of baptism and the Holy Communion. Seventy people and another three from the Deaf Fellowship were baptized. The service workers preached the significance of Holy Communion and baptism in sign language on the stage.
The Deaf fellowship was established in June 2009. Sister Jiang Xiuying said that the fellowship benefited from the help and guidance of Pastor Ming Dasheng of Wanfang Deaf Church in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Pastor Wang Shengjun who graduated from Northeast Theological Seminary said, since its establishment, the church allocated a dedicated room for the deaf fellowship as a meeting place. The fellowship only had four believers at first, and now at least 30 would come to church on Sunday for the party. During Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other major festivals, the participants could be as many as 80-90 believers.
Over the course of more than ten years of deaf ministry, there has been one non-deaf sign language co-worker, three deaf sign language preachers, and a total of nine co-workers.
(The article is written by a special contributor of the Gospel Times in Anshan, Liaoning Province)
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
中国东北的辽宁省一个教会有个四五十人的聋人团契，有13年的历史。
在祖国的钢都辽宁鞍山铁西区的兴盛基督教会有个心泉聋人团契。2022年8月14日的上午，兴盛教会举行圣洗礼和圣餐礼，70人受洗，而聋人团契就有3个人受洗，服侍同工在台上用手语宣讲圣餐礼和圣洗礼的重要意义。
教会的聋人团契于2009年6月建立，服侍的姜秀英姊妹说他们的聋人团契就是得益于辽宁沈阳万方聋人教会的明大圣牧师的帮助及指导。据毕业于东北神学院的王圣君教士介绍，这个团契自成立以来，教会专门为聋人团契分配了一个房间作为聚会场所、团契起初只有四位聋人信徒来聚会，现在每次主日聚会至少有三十位的聋人肢体来教堂礼拜，赶上感恩节、圣诞节等重大节日都能来八、九十人。
神在这十几年的聋人事工中兴起了一位健全手语同工、三位聋人手语传道员，共有九位参与服侍的同工。（福音时报特约撰稿人于辽宁鞍山报道）
记辽宁鞍山兴盛教会心泉聋人团契
A church in northeast China's Liaoning Province has a 13-year-old fellowship of 40 to 50 deaf people, the Heart Spring Deaf Fellowship in Xingsheng Christian Church in Tiexi District of Anshan, the steel city of China.
On the morning of August 14, 2022, Xingsheng Church in Liaoning Province held the sacrament of baptism and the Holy Communion. Seventy people and another three from the Deaf Fellowship were baptized. The service workers preached the significance of Holy Communion and baptism in sign language on the stage.
The Deaf fellowship was established in June 2009. Sister Jiang Xiuying said that the fellowship benefited from the help and guidance of Pastor Ming Dasheng of Wanfang Deaf Church in Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Pastor Wang Shengjun who graduated from Northeast Theological Seminary said, since its establishment, the church allocated a dedicated room for the deaf fellowship as a meeting place. The fellowship only had four believers at first, and now at least 30 would come to church on Sunday for the party. During Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other major festivals, the participants could be as many as 80-90 believers.
Over the course of more than ten years of deaf ministry, there has been one non-deaf sign language co-worker, three deaf sign language preachers, and a total of nine co-workers.
(The article is written by a special contributor of the Gospel Times in Anshan, Liaoning Province)
- Translated by Oliver Zuo
13-Y-O Deaf Fellowship of Xingsheng Church in Liaoning Province
