Children’s gospel work in 95 of the church
For the sake of the children’s gospel work, saints at Meeting Place 95 have been diligently inviting family members, friends, and colleagues to fellowship together since March of last year, expanding the reach of the gospel. In addition to the regular online children’s meeting every week, there are also regular parent-child outdoor fellowship activities, such as visiting campus museums, hiking in Heping Mountain to see fireflies, and having picnics in the park. They have reached over 50 parents and children, but the number of children attending the children’s meetings and the Lord’s Day meeting has stagnated. Therefore, the brothers came together to pray and fellowship, seeking a breakthrough. They realized the need to bring people from the outdoor children’s gospel fellowship into the homes of the saints.
Starting last October, they established children’s meetings in homes. Initially, only a few saints were burdened to open their homes for this purpose.
After fellowship on this year’s outlook, the saints heard the call and enthusiastically participated in the children’s work. Many saints, despite not having children themselves, are willing to open their homes for the need of children’s meetings, contributing their “thousand taels” (giving their best). In addition to the fixed children’s meetings held at least twice a month in the homes of the saints, there is also at least one fellowship activity near schools every month. This is combined with hymn singing and action rhymes, character-building stories on the Lord’s Day morning, and various fellowship activities on the Lord’s Day afternoon, such as DIY snacks and crafts, ball games, and picnics. They also use the children’s material “Little Lamp” to help children establish a prayer life, pray for their classmates by name, and help them know the truth and build good and sound character from a young age.
One saint’s child felt a burden for a classmate they often played with. Because of their heartfelt desire for their classmate to attend the children’s meeting, they persistently prayed for them, eventually bringing them to the meeting. In the process, the child also gained faith from the Lord. Since the implementation, seven families have consistently opened their homes for children’s meetings. The average number of children has increased from four saints’ children to fifteen. Additionally, over thirty parents and seventeen children have participated in outdoor fellowship activities.
May the Lord gain more saints to pray for the rise of the children’s work, and be willing to open their homes to cooperate with children’s meetings, spreading salvation to more young families through the children’s gospel. We hope that after May this year, parents of children will be saved one after another so that the church will gain propagation and expansion.
九十五会所儿童福音的开展
九十五会所为着儿童福音的开展，自去年三月开始，圣徒们竭力邀约家人、朋友和同事一同相调，扩大福音接触对象。除每周固定有在线儿童排外，且定期举办亲子户外各类相调，如参观校园博物馆、和美山步道赏萤、公园野餐等。已接触超过五十位家长与儿童，但在儿童排与主日实体聚会人数上却停滞未成长。因此，弟兄们就来在一起祷告交通、寻求突破，看见我们需要把人从户外的儿童福音相调，带进圣徒的家中。从去年十月起成立儿童排，刚开始仅部分圣徒有负担愿意开家成立儿童排。
今年展望交通后，圣徒们听见呼召，纷纷投入儿童工作，许多圣徒家中虽然没有小孩，却愿意开家为着儿童排的需要，摆上自己的一千两。除了每月至少两次在圣徒家中有固定的儿童排外，亦至少举办一次邻近学校运动相调，并结合主日上午诗歌律动与品格教育故事，以及主日下午各类相调活动，如点心劳作DIY、球类运动、野餐等，同时也藉由儿童教材『小明灯』，帮助孩子们建立祷告生活，为同学提名代祷，并帮助孩子们从小认识真理，建立良好且健全的性格。
某位圣徒的小孩，对班上常一起玩的同学非常有负担，因着一心盼望同学能来参加儿童排，就坚定持续的为同学祷告，至终也就将同学带来儿童排，小朋友也在这个过程中，增加从主而来的信心。实行至今已有固定七个家开家为着儿童排，儿童平均人数从四位圣徒的儿女增长到十五位，亦有超过三十位家长及十七位儿童参加过户外相调活动。
愿主得着更多的圣徒能为着儿童工作的兴起祷告，并愿意将家打开配搭儿童排，借着儿童福音将救恩扩展到更多年轻的家里。盼望今年五月后，就陆续有儿童的家长得救，使召会得着繁殖与扩增。
