Thank you so much for your prayers for our return. We have
been back for a busy and productive month. We thank the Lord for good health!
Fall Push
Our Beijing International Christian Fellowship Zhong Guan
Cun congregation has moved - just across the street within the same office
complex. We’re back in the worship venue the church started in six years ago.
We’re now all together in one English service that can seat 500 people; we’re
just over 300 now. Lots of students and professors from all over the world are
here. Our biggest logistical challenge in the move is enough classroom space
for the more than 100 children in our congregation. We rejoice that our
families are fruitful AND flexible as we grow in ministry.
Our ‘Fall Push’ includes starting up new Small Groups (we’re
aiming for groups on all the 82 campuses that surround our church…so far about
20!) and people plugging into on-going ministries in and out of the church.
That’s all happening now. Pray for our people who have newly come to Beijing to
find and follow Him even far from home.
China ‘Kids’Our eldest son, Nathan and his wife Heather, are doing great as they begin their 2nd year in Beijing. Nathan is a Product Designer and Heather a High School Biology teacher. They have their own apartment close to their work, not too far away from us. We see them at least on Sundays, sometimes more! Serving a congregation full of young adults means we have lots of great ‘kids’ from all over the world. We almost lost one in April. I can still feel a chill from the words from a doctor in our congregation, “Mark, humanly speaking, there is no hope for her.” Within a week Lina went from an active University student into a coma. She lay at death’s door for a week before they took a chance and gave her medication for Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS). As her parents flew here from Burundi, we rehearsed what we might tell them if the worst occurred. But after 5 days of treatment she was awake! Ten weeks after going to the hospital for a bad flu, she walked out! She uploaded a video to tell the world her story. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg6I8Bkwj70&feature=results_video It was a great joy to have Lina (in pink, holding a friend’s baby) and her sister join us for lunch last week.
The Beijinger
A couple who lead our Music ministry work for “The
Beijinger” magazine as their day job. You might be surprised to see who they put
on page 53 of their July issue…China I.F. Conference
China has over 200 cities with more than one million people.
Many of them have a growing population of Internationals. A number have
International Fellowships of various sizes. (“Fellowship” seems to be more
‘politically correct’ here…but they look like churches to me!) We at BICF, the
largest and oldest IF in China, will host a conference to encourage and equip
IF’s from China and the neighboring nations. Pray that we will have a great
time of Kingdom-advance.
A long-time Japanese friend, Noboru Morishige, a
singer/songwriter/evangelist will be with us for this Conference. We look
forward to some special opportunities to reach out to Japanese here in Beijing.
Please join us in prayer for this special times.
November 8 there will be a complete change of Government
leaders here in China. This is a very important event for the nation. Ask the
‘King of Kings’ to appoint people of peace for Gospel advance.
We have really enjoyed receiving ZG Briefs. They compile
current news articles about China from many sources into one easy to find
email. You can check it out at: http://www.zgbriefs.com/
The most recent ZG Brief cited an excellent collection of
photographs that present varied, colorful, snapshots of this amazing land: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2012/09/china.html
Thank you, again, for remembering us before Him who
graciously rules all nations!
Yours in our Mighty
Savior! Mark and Dayna
Blair
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