PCT set to focus on Hakka missions in 2012

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      3052 Edition

      August 23~29, 2010

       

       

      PCT set to focus on Hakka missions in 2012

       

      Reported by Sam Lee

      Written by Lydia Ma

       

       



      PCT Hakka Mission Committee recently passed a resolution making 
2012 the year PCT will 

      focus on Hakka ministries and reaching Hakka people for Christ. 
New editions of the Hakka 

      Bible and Hakka Hymnal will also be published by then.

       



      This resolution comes at a time when PCT General Assembly has 
pledged to actively commit 

      to the “New Doubling Movement” and the committee wants to make 
sure that Hakka churches 

      also see a doubling of churches and members of their own.

       



      “Hakka people are an important ethnic group we mustn’t forget 
when promoting the New 

      Doubling Movement!” said PCT Hakka Mission Committee Chairman 
Tseng Chang-fa. 

       



      He added that 2012 Hakka Mission Year will be equally important 
for other churches because 

      breakthroughs with Hakka people invariably translates into 
significant breakthroughs in 

      evangelism with the rest of the population. 

       



      There are currently 18 Hakka churches in Hakka Presbytery and 
all of them are growing 

      steadily. Hakka presbytery has managed to build 1 church every 
2 years.

       



      Tseng underscored it’s crucial to continue preaching the gospel 
in rural areas and reported 

      that PCT’s tradition of holding family services and house 
visitations in farming villages have 

      yielded good results. 

       



      But he also welcomed city churches to sponsor or partner with 
smaller, resource-strapped 

      Hakka churches, or start their own Hakka fellowships so that 
churches could help one another 

      in doubling their membership and reaching the goals of the New 
Doubling Movement.

       



      In related news, Peter McLean, son of Hakka Bible translator 
Paul McLean who has been 

      working closely with PCT and Taiwan Bible Society, has been 
cycling across Canada partly to 

      raise funds toward Hakka Bible translation.

       



      Over the past 6 weeks, McLean has cycled across Vancouver 
Island, through southern British 

      Columbia, up and down the Rocky Mountains, across Alberta and 
the Prairies, to the border 

      of Ontario. He is planning to cycle from the west to the east 
coast of Canada.



       

      Not only has McLean travelled over 2,000 kilometers, he has 
weathered hot and sunny days, 

      cold nights, rain, thunderstorms, hail and even snow. But he 
reported that he’d also met many 

      kind people along the way, and even a few bears, to his 
delight. 

       



      Though he still has a long way to go before he reaches his 
final destination in St. John's, 

      Newfoundland, he is enjoying every moment of this journey. For 
more information on 

      MacLean’s adventure and his progress go to: 
http://petermclean.tumblr.com

       

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