Hello from Macau. [新年快樂!] Happy New Year, Year of the Rabbit! With the Spring Festival comes new hopes, an anticipation of better days ahead. Macau is full of decorations and tourists from the north. Many families are being reunited. Some haven’t seen each other for 3 years. We rejoice with them and look for the hope of spring to grow into a wonderful summer.
Please pray with us for the following:
Last week our church family had three funerals. On Friday, a church member’s father passed away. This has been a difficult time for so many. Pray for the resurrection power of Jesus to fill people with hope.
Sonny is a Guest Worker from the Philippines. He hasn’t been home in over 3 years. His mother is in poor health and hospitalized with a leg injury that won’t heal. Pray for her healing, and peace for Sonny.
Our friend Crystal is visiting Taiwan for a couple of months. May she encounter Christians who love and care for her while there. May she know that Jesus loves her.
This past Sunday our morning Bible study was from Matthew 22:23-33. It is a passage that starts off talking about death, a very uncomfortable and somewhat inappropriate topic for the first day of the New Year. Thankfully the passage ends talking about life, resurrection life. Jesus proclaims that “He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” May the Living God of the living fill us with His life today and every day.
Maranatha!