Advent

The Christmas Advent season starts next Sunday.  We thought it would be a good time to share with you Christmas season scheduled events:

• Dec 3-4  Children’s Outreach – 20 children have registered to attend.  It will be held at our church building and a group of students from a university in Taipei will be the teachers.
• Dec 4  Decorating Party – The congregation is invited to stay after the worship service to help decorate the church building.
• Dec 24  Christmas Eve Service – The night before Christmas Day is called “Peace Night” (平安夜) in Chinese.  A service will be held at the church for members and invited guests.
• Dec 25  Christmas Day Worship Service – The worship service will be a special Christmas Worship event. We are hopeful that the Ukulele Class students will play that day.
• Dec ?  There are possible events that are still at the discussion and planning stage:
  • Telling the Christmas story to English students at a cram school in our county seat. There may be opportunities at other local cram schools as well.
  • Sharing about Christmas with the after-school Homework Club and the Ukulele Class students (and families).
• Dec 26  C&MA Canadian International Worker Team Celebration – The whole team, fully supported international workers and Global Alliance Professionals, have been invited to a potluck feast.

Praise and Prayer

The Women’s Coworker Retreat successfully provided opportunities for mutual encouragement and praying together.  The recreational walks seeing the beautiful scenery were also appreciated. A disappointing outcome was that Kathy-Lu brought Covid-19 back with her.  The result is that she is having to isolate for a week.  Consequently, we did not attend last weekend’s events and we will miss the American Thanksgiving celebration.  We are thankful she is recovering well and Lorne has remained Covid-free.