Rev. Jimmy Zhen Director – Chinese Family For Christ Canada Branch When I was a child, I lived in a village in the Guangdong province. I often looked up at the sky at night, it was vast with little starlight, and my heart of awe grew spontaneously. I felt insignificant, and I could not help but asked: Who am I? Growing up in an atheistic environment, passively accepted that myself was just a coincidence in the long years of evolution. Successfully completed university, I found a decent job at a bank, but there was always an indescribable emptiness in my heart. And when I saw through the reality
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Irrational Thinking 81: Marginalized Community in Pandemic
QiuLin, Social Worker in Detox, Vancouver In the last edition, the author has written about how people started drinking to spend the day during the COVID19 pandemic stay home order. And there is an increasing tendency of addicts to stay home to take marijuana or heroin, and subsequently more deaths due to fentanyl overdose. Last year (2020), there are 1,716 deaths in BC alone (roughly the same number of death due to COVID19). This is worrisome, especially when it shows a 74% increase compared to 984 deaths in 2019. As of 8/31, International Concern for Drug Abuse Day, there have been more data regarding death related to drug
Read morePlease Let the Whole World Know
Pastor Wong A message sent by a Myanmar friend, ending with a heart-broken sentence: “Please help Myanmar peoples as much as you can and spread the whole world how brutal the military junta is. The World needs to know this, they need help ASAP. People are dying.” Perhaps the whole world is aware of the Myanmar coup, political instability, and democratic regression. The people are living in fear, but they don’t want to go back to the era of military rule. I have observed earlier, the church always had Myanmar as one of their weekly prayer items, asking for God’s mercy on them. However, as the days passed,
Read moreLife as a Traveler
Alice Cheung Life is when a newborn baby comes into this sparkling world, naked and barehanded. Very soon, he would have to leave this familiar and dazzling world and return to the gloom, being naked and barehanded again. A famous ancient Chinese poet, Su Dongpo from Song Dynasty exclaimed that “Life is like an adverse journey and I am also a traveler.” An author of the Bible also wrote that “We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.” Life is just a passerby in this world. Purpose & Itinerary Going on a trip is a
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Helen Man Poor Baby In the spring of 1974, a newborn baby girl was found at a meat market in a small town in Taiwan. The baby’s crying attracted many people to gather around her. The crowd found that she was born with no arms, uneven legs, and a deformed body. They took her to the police. Some charities checked her out but did not offer help, while hospitals wanted to make her into a specimen for medical study as she dies soon, thinking that she wouldn’t live long. Pastor Yang, the founder of “Six Turtles Orphanage” adopted her and named her Grace because he believed that “since
Read morePraying for Spiritual Transformation
Dale Winder The National Initiatives Manager for the BGEA of Canada When I began my elementary school years we began the day singing the Canadian national anthem and saying the Lord’s Prayer in unison. By the time I finished high school we were taught that science had proven God does not exist. Therefore, not only did we stop saying the Lord’s Prayer we also no longer sang the national anthem because it acknowledged the existence of God. Today, students are no longer taught that science is true because they are teaching truth is based on what you personally think or feel. As a result, we have fully arrived
Read moreToronto STM November News & Prayer Request
Give thanks and praise to the Lord. With the Lord’s grace, the prayers and faith actions of the co-workers and believers, the cannabis shop at Unit C-6 next to the short-term mission center finally moved out of our 60-merchants plaza on October 31, 2021. And because of the newly established By-Laws, no marijuana shop can be established among us from now on. Thanks and praise to the Lord! Non-Christian merchants are amazed by the power and truth of the Lord Jesus, and the Lord’s name is exalted, glorified and honored! Glory be to God. Once again, thank you for your support and prayer, the Lord is our banner!
Read moreUrban Mission – Mission at the Door Step
by Woon Yuen Cheng, PhD, missioner, pro-temp Director of VCCSTM The main article of the current issue of The Logos “Urban Evangelism – The Flow of Love” has taken on an old topic afresh regarding urban evangelism. Urban city, a place where people congregate, and in everyday live where frequent interpersonal influences and communications take place. Without a doubt, it is key to evangelism. Looking back to the early churches, one sees the importance of urban mission – Paul’s three mission trips took place at (1) Athens – Center of intellect of the entire Greek and Roman world, and (2) Corinth – One of the commercial centers of
Read moreThe Realm of Life
By Alice Cheng The realm of life is considered as the awareness of one’s mind and the cultivation of one’s character. It is closely related to our vision, mood, and cultivation. When the horizon is high, there is no obstacle and there is a clear wave in the heart. The eyes are the window of the soul: What comes into our eyes is what goes into our hearts. Seeing can become our points of view, our visions, and even our realms. God’s vision is much deeper than ours. May God expand our realms of life. Our Functional World of Order From God’s point of view, He called his
Read moreThe Choice between life and death at the end of Days
By: Timothy Tin According to a BBC report, “since 2012, approximately 5 million Afghans fled their homeland and were unable to return, some without homes within the Afghan border, while others fled to neighboring countries to seek shelter” The number of displaced Afghans is ranked as the world’s top third most number of displaced refugees. When the American troops planned to withdraw its forces on August 31, 2021, Afghans were facing the imminent choice between life and death in the great escape of the end times. Those who boarded departing planes from Afghanistan were escorted down the path to peace and stability, but those who could not manage
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