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Tsun-En & Grace’s Family & Ministry Updates (October, 2016)

“They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand. O Lord, let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants who delight to fear your name, and give success to your servant today,” ~Nehemiah 1:10-11a

1. Tsun-En & Grace’s Family Updates

- So far we have not called a prayer group for our mission. It’s our desire to constantly and systematically pray for our friends, supporters, and donors. Building the habit is harder than it looks. May the LORD help us start strong and persist in this.

- Jed and Zach started the Chinese school in this September. We are comforted that the kids all love their schools. We still need to help kids develop better discipline in the use of time.

- Our family are as busy as usual and strive to become more involved in the town-life of Glenside. Tsun-En keeps the habit of praying with some fellows at New Life Glenside Presbyterian Church (PCA), and we are still looking for a co-leader to host a future disciple group in our house. However, we decide to visit other community groups first while we are seeking partners.

Prayer item: Please pray for our prayer life as a family—not just personal devotions. We need to learn new skills how to teach our kids and ourselves to pray, and have a real relationship with Jesus.

2. Chinese Student Program of CMC 2016 (unrest prayer needed!)

- CMC 2016 in Baltimore now has over 1,300 registered, but the registration with CSP is still very slow, about 30 only. We are anxious to see over 144 undergraduate students to register with us. Our team has recruited enough staff/counselors/helpers. But now where is the sheep? Please join us by your prayers to mobilize Chinese-speaking, undergraduate, international students to live a disciple-life and devote their lives to Christ! You can see our program here:

https://trello.com/b/a3UaXlKa/cmc

- We are excited about the cross-collegial Worship Team of nine musicians just formed (two from Penn State, one from Stony Brook, two from U of Delaware, the captain from NC, counselor from Delaware, and the coach from COM).

- We are excited about the role-play-game (RPG) module designed for the use of CSP. The team has been meeting and working since this May. Please pray for each team member who volunteers their time and energy without any compensation. It will be a three-hour module for the students to experience cross-cultural communications with many unexpected challenges and fun!

Prayer item: We heard from many churches that their outreach to the undergraduate students have not been very successful in the past few years. That would impact our invitations to the churches to bring their undergraduate students to come. In fact, it is our desire to inspire those few undergraduate students who did come to faith and join church worship to be encouraged and challenged to reach their fellows in the campus. Please pray with us that the LORD will raise up many spiritual leaders from this younger generation of international students.

3. Campus Ministry Training

- AFC Online Campus Ministry Training have completed two lessons with 27 campus ministers and associate staff. We are thankful for their dedicated participation and the learning opportunity for ourselves to hear from them the frontiers’ perspectives and anecdotes.

- We had one unfortunate incident in the Souderton Club on 9/23. Someone broke the wall with a slamming door. This is in fact the second incidents since we had this high-schooler outreach program. The Souderton Mennonite Church is concerned but forgiving. We are trying to communicate more clearly with the students about their responsibilities of using the church facilities. Please pray that we would have the wisdom and loving heart to talk to the students, many of whom are unbelievers.

- AFC has started the internal discussion on how to systematically training our new Campus Missionaries before they are sent to the field. If the LORD wills, Tsun-En wishes to pioneer a more aggressive training project to achieve this goal.

- Please pray for Tsun-En’s preaching in the mission conference of Chinese Bible Church of Lancaster on Oct 9th, and evangelistic outreach with Pittsburgh Chinese Church Oakland on Oct 14-16th.

Prayer item: Please pray for the effectiveness of the online training program, and the presence of God in the preaching engagements.

4. Discipleship Training

-The Chinese churches in the North America, by and large, produce bible study group leaders and Sunday school teachers. But they have not grown life coaches, student mentors, and fellowship counselors to meet the needs of current trend of campus ministries in the North America. We are concerned and praying for more suitable training designed for this need.

- We will host a series of biblical counseling training at AFC: How People Change Conference (5/19-21), Help Others Change Conference (11/3-5). We are also planning on a special training of life coaches, student mentors, and fellowship counselors, likely in September, 2017, in the New England area.

- We continue the process of planning a How People Change Certificate Program in Taiwan by the fall of 2017. We are thankful for the sponsorship of Family Counseling Center and the help of Easter Gau, our trainer’s commitment.

Prayer item: Please pray for the design of the How People Change certificate program and our endeavor of training new trainers.

5. Progress of Studying

- Tsun-En just finished teaching the extension course for CESNA on Hermeneutical Principles on 9/29-10/2 at Richmond, VA. About 20 students participated. It’s a good opportunity for Tsun-En to sharpen his academics. Now there are 20 student exegetical papers in development.

- Tsun-En is starting an online course on Introduction to Biblical Theology in this Fall.

Prayer item: Please pray for Tsun-En to be able to continue his French and German studies during this very busy schedule.

6. Friend-raising & Fundraising

- We are currently raising fund to sponsor the post-editorial work of Tsun-En’s eight-lecture seminar on biblical counseling recorded in Taiwan this summer. The need is about USD2,500. If we finish this project, the material can be used to entry level training of biblical counseling, to be used both in Taiwan and US. Would appreciate your support and prayer.

- Because of the addition of our family health insurance plan, our fundraising duty has increased to $4,725 per month. We are very grateful to find sufficient deposits from our donors that are just enough to cover our new health insurance plan for September and October. We thank you our friends and donors for your dedicated supports to our mission and the needs of our family. We are preparing our Christmas family greeting cards for you all.

- We are committed to visit our friends in Taiwan and Hong Kong every summer as a family. That would cost us $7,000 in flight tickets each year. Would appreciate your support and prayer.

Prayer item: Please pray for our wise management of our finances and our increasing faith in serving the LORD, without concerns or worries because of fundraising.

May the LORD bless you and keep you.

Tsun-En & Grace
With Jedidiah, Zachariah, Nehemiah