Fujian Ordains 18 Pastors, 1 Elder

来自福建各地教会的同工、信徒一千多人参加一圣职按立典礼。

4月15日，该典礼由福建省基督教两会在福建神学院福神堂举办。省基督教协会驻会副会长、福建神学院副院长张纪有牧师通过马可福音10章35至45节引入，以“做合主心意的仆人”为题进行了证道。他劝勉各位接受圣职的同工要坚定信心，像保罗一样对主忠心，做谦卑殷勤的服侍者；要拒绝世俗的欲望，竭力追求属灵生命的丰盛。

牧师团进行了誓约询问后，按立18位同工为牧师，包括郑梅珍（女），按立黄陈孝恩（真耶稣教）为长老。

19位领受圣职的同工授圣带、圣经。

注：本文为特约/自由撰稿人文章，作者系福建福州一教会信徒。

More than a thousand people from churches all over Fujian participated in an ordination ceremony.

The ceremony was conducted by Fujian CC&TSPM at the chapel of Fujian Theological Seminary on April 15. Rev. Zhang Jiyou, vice chairman of the Provincial Christian Council and vice president of the seminary, preached a sermon titled "Being Servants After God’s Own Heart," citing Mark 10:35-45. He urged those to be ordained to be faithful to the Lord like Paul, be humble and diligent servants with firm faith, and live an abundant life by rejecting worldly desires. 

After sharing their understanding of the office to which they have been called, 18 staff workers were ordained as pastors, including Zheng Meizhen (female), with Huang Chen Xiaoen (from the True Jesus Church) appointed as an elder. Later, they received the clerical stoles and bibles.

(The article was originally published by the Gospel Times and the author is a believer in a church in Fuzhou, Fujian.)

- Translated by Abigail Wu