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Dette er noe av det Amity og vi driver med i Hunan for tiden.
Norsk oversettelse kommer sannsynligvis i nær framtid.
Semi Annual Report for
Yongshun Environment Project
Date: 2009-07-25
The contract between NMS and Amity for Yongshun Environment Project was signed in May, 2009.
Amity officially approved the three activities for this year in the end of May.
Up to the reporting time, a lot of preparation has been made for project implementation.
Firstly, Yadong reservoir: Implementation scheme has been worked out, and villager meetings
have been held twice to discuss how to organize the beneficiaries' physical contribution, how to deal with possible disputes in the process of construction, and so on.
Technicians and construction team have been chosen to rebuild the irrigation canal system. The County Government has officially promised to provide RMB80,000 for this project as matching fund. Construction process will begin in early August, and the project is expected to be completed in the end of November 2009.
Secondly, Sicheng water project: The project will get 13 villager groups including 315 households involved. The village houses are sparsely spotted and are far away from each other. The villagers' support is essential to the success of this project. Therefore, special attention has been paid to communication with the villagers and much work has been done, in order to ensure the villagers' role as participator, implementor, and supervisor in this project.
Two meetings have been held at the village level, and six meetings have been held at the villagers group level. Besides, 34 rural households have been visited to gather opinions and suggestions from the target villagers. The County government has officially promised to provide
RMB100 000 as matching fund to this project.
Villager meeting
Children from Sicheng Village.
They have walked 4 kilometers down to a river for washing.
Thirdly, training about safety of agricultural products: After a series of surveys, it has been decided that 200 technicians will be trained in this project; 160 technicians are from the 30 townships of Yongshun County, and 40 technicians come from the county level. Besides, 200 farmers will also be trained.
They are local experts in planting, agricultural products processing etc. They are active members in local agriculture, and are able to influence other farmers with their own practice. Training materials have been purchased, including 2,500 textbooks and 2,000 CDs. Training will be arranged in accordance with local agricultural seasons. It is expected that all the training will be carried out before the end of December 2009.
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Dette er en sak Gloria skrev for kort tid siden. Veldig spennende og omhandler hennes trosreise og kirkemedlemskaps reise. Den forklarer mye om Kina og kristnes situasjon der.
How I Moved from Under Ground Church to Public Church
Rev. Wu Ziwei Gloria, Dean Hunan Bible Institute, Changsha, Hunan, China.
My first 5 years Christian life was in an under ground church of Beijing. The so called "under ground church" are those churches who are not willing to put themselves under the management of Chinese government. Practically and theologically, they believe that having any kind of relationship with government is not wise or right. They don't go to religious department of the local government to register. They also teach that public church is unclean and misled on the way of truth because they receive government management. They emphasis on discipleship training and evangelizing. Citizenship and ethic life in society are not their attention. Salvation is their focus. They train believers to do overseas ministry, like to go to Arab area, as well as train believers to do minority people's ministries. They have wonderful work among university students.
Nowadays, under ground churches grow very fast and become very strong, they begin to seriously consider about their identity in Chinese society. Some of the leaders do not refuse registration any more, but Chinese government hasn't say yes to their registration applications.
More than 90% support of western ministry organizations, persons and churches to Chinese churches go to Chinese under ground church. So they have more spiritual books which public church believers may never see in all their Christian life.
Under ground church believers have many kinds of Bible printing versions that public church believers never see, because missionaries heard that China has no Bible or not allowed to print Bible, so they carried many Bibles to China risking with their lives.
Under ground churches receive all kinds of teaching from overseas missionaries, while public church believers usually are taught only by their onw Chinese ordained teachers and pastors. In the eyes of most western Christians, only under ground church is pure, spiritual and faithful.
Chinese public church is more strict organized. Church leaders are all in the organization of different level Christian Councils. Provincial Christian Council will decide who can be ordained, and who need to be disciplined. Christian Councils finance receives auditing once a year, while church's finance is required to be opened. Public churches receive management from religious department of local government in the area of the law, not in the area of belief content.
I worked in Beijing for more than 5 years, 2 years was in the general office of an American international company. That was a Christian company. They not only did business, but also did so called "heavenly business". One day I was secretly called by a policeman from Beijing Police Bureau asking me about the personnel of this company. Then I knew they had noticed this company's illegal affairs. One week later, I told my boss that the policeman found me to check the company. "Gloria, are you a spy from the beginning you came to my company?" This was the question hovering in the mind of the boss from then on.
By the end, of course soon I left the company. Since I had several sisters and brothers of under ground church in that company, they suggested that I couldn't go to any under ground church in Beijing, for I might have policeman tails.
From bottom of my heart, I took their suggestion. Not only I didn't go to any under ground church later, but also I destroyed everything that might help police find my sisters and brothers in the under ground churches. I tore my address book into pieces.
The next Sunday, I had nowhere to go but I had to worship my God, so I went to a public church in Beijing. I heard the pastor pray for all under ground church brothers and sisters. I took this as a sign that God hugged me in this church. Later on, I joined the youth choir of this church. Gradually I grow up in the public church system: serving in the church, going to study in seminaries, coming back to serve in local church, teaching in seminary. I was ordained as pastor on Dec. 23, 2007, eight years after I stepped into public church.
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Noe redigert av u.t.
Mine første 5 år som kristen var i en undergrunnskirke
i Beijing. De såkalte “undergrunnskirkene” er de kirker som ikke er villige til å sette seg selv under ledelse av kinesiske myndigheter.
Praktisk og teologisk hevder de at det å ha noen form for
forholdet til regjeringen ikke er klokt eller rett. De
ikke gå til religiøse myndighetene for å la seg registrere.
De lærer at den offentlig kirken er urene og ikke har rett lære fordi fordi den blir kontrollert av det offentlige. Denne kirken legger vekt på disippel trening og misjon.
De har ikke oppmerksomhet mot det å være samfunnsborger og samfunnsetikk. Frelse er deres fokus. De trener troende til å gjøre tjeneste som misjonærer i for eksempel arabiske land, samt trener
troende å gjøre tjeneste blant Kinas minoritetsfolk. De har et
fantastisk arbeid blant studenter.
I dag har undergrunnskirken preget av rask vekst og mange er blitt sterke. Noen av de har også begynt seriøst å vurdere sin identitet i det i det kinesiske samfunnet. Noen av lederne nekter ikke lenger
å registrere sin menigheter, men myndighetene har fremdeles ikke åpnet for registrering utenfor de såkalte ”offisielle menighetene”.
Mer enn 90% av støtten fra vestlige misjonsorganisasjoner,
personer og menigheter til kinesisk kirker går til den kinesisk
undergrunnskirken. Så mange av de har kristen litteratur som mange i den offisielle kirken ikke har tilgang til.
Undergrunnskirkens troende har mange typer bibler som få i den offisielle kirken ikke kan få tak i. Mange misjonærer har hørt at kristne i Kina ikke har bibler og de har derfor innført bibler til Kina
Undergrunnskirken mottar også mange typer undervisning fra
utenlandske misjonærer, mens kristne i den offisielle kirken
vanligs kun bare får undervisning fra sine egne lærere eller ordinert prester. I mange vestlige kristnes øyne er det bare undergrunnskirken som er ren, åndelig og trofast.
Den Offisielle Kinesisk Kirke er mer strengt organisert. Kirke
ledere er alle organisert på ulike nivå i ”Christian Councils”. (Kristne råd) Provinsens kristne råd bestemmer hvem som kan bli ordinert og som trenger å bli disiplinert.
De kristne råds økonomi blir revidert en gang i året, og kirkens økonomi må være åpen. Den offisielle kirkens ledelse må følge landets lover og blir styrt av myndighetene i de forhold som har med samfunnet å gjøre, men ikke med det som har med innholdet av troen.
Jeg jobbet i Beijing i mer enn 5 år, 2 år i hovedkontoret til en amerikansk internasjonalt selskap. Dette var et kristent kompani. De drev ikke bare med foretninger, men drev også med såkalte ”himmelske foretninger” En ble jeg i hemmelighet ring opp av en politimann fra Beijing Police Bureau som spurte meg om personene i dette kompaniet. Jeg skjønte da at de hadde blitt oppmerksomme på dette kompaniets ulovlige affærer.
En uke senere fortalte jeg min sjef at en politimann hadde bedt meg om å fortelle de hav som foregikk i dette firmaet. Fra da av svevde følgende spørsmål i hodet til min sjef. ”Gloria har du vært en spion i mitt firma fra begynnelsen av?”
Denne historien endte med at jeg forlot kompaniet. Siden jeg hadde flere søstre og brødre i denne undergrunnskirken foreslo de at jeg ikke kunne gå til noen av undergrunnskirkene i Beijing, da jeg sannsynligvis var skygget av politiet.
Jeg tok dette forslaget alvorlig. Jeg sluttet ikke bare å gå i undergrunnskirken, men ødelagte alt som kunne hjelpe politiet å finne
mine søstre og brødre. Jeg rev i stykker adresseboken min.
Neste søndag hadde jeg ikke noen kirke å gå i, men følte at jeg måtte gå til gudstjeneste og være med på tilbedelse. Jeg bestemte meg for å gå i en av de offisielle kirkene i Beijing. Der hørte jeg presten
presten be for alle undergrunnskirkes brødre og søstre.
Jeg opplevde dette som et tegn fra Gud – en stor og god klem fra den offisielle kirken og jeg ble seinere med i menighetens ungdomskor
Gradvis vokste jeg inn i den offisielle kirkens systemer. Jeg deltok i dens tjeneste, studerte i et av dens seminarer og fortsatt deretter med å arbeide i en lokal menighet og også undervise på et kristent seminar.
Jeg ble ordinert til prest den 23 desember 2007, åtte år etter at jeg trådte inn i offentlig kirken.
Gloria Wu er nå lærer på Hunan Bibel Institutt i Changsha og også en av prestene i Hunan Christian Council som NMS samarbeider nært med.
Har du lyst til å være med å støtte Hunan Bibel Institutt i Changsha kan du klikke her:
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Regards/vennlig hilsen Ole Jacob Groenvold/Jack/Cheung Nga Gok
Email: ojg@nms.no, Blog: http://kinainfo.blogspot.com
Homepage privat/Egen hjemmeside: http://www.kinainfo.no
Homepage The Norwegian Mission Society: http://www.nms.no
Postal address: Amazing Grace Lutheran Church, To Yuen St.
Tai Hang Tung, Kln, Hong Kong S.A.R. China.
May God bless you today. Gud velsigne deg i dag.
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