Sunday July 21
Many of you have friends and relatives in Taiwan. If you would like to invite them to come listen to us, we have two future "public" performances:
Friday, 7/26
改革宗長老會竹東教會
新竹縣-竹東鎮幸福路132號通訊處
Sunday, 8/4
台北市內湖區堤頂大道二段207號 學學文創. 愛家倍主日學園
Today, after a great night's rest and breakfast, we attended the morning worship at our host church, Zuodong Presbyterian Church. Their youth led the worship (those wearing the Vision blue or lavender shirts are some who practiced with us yesterday). There were about 50 or 60 who attended the service. We sang Lamb of God, then Charmaine gave her testimony ableably translated by Josh Yeh. We then sang In His Time with the doxology in Mandarin and Kelly shared her testimony in Mandarin and we concluded our singing with John 14:6, sung in Mandarin. We then joined their youth in a time of games and fellowship, then spent a half hour teaching the rest of their youth to sing In His Time and John 14:6 so they can join us in singing this Friday. Mrs. Chou, the pastor's wife, shared how meaningful In His Time is to her as she first learned this song as a new believer when she was 15. The church seems very excited about participating with us and offered to host a BBQ dinner on Friday to invite the Tongtex students and their parents to join. We are very excited at this answer to prayer that our hosting church would get involved into the Tongtex school ministry. After lunch, we welcomed two more young ladies from the church to join the music class and then we divided ourselves into two teaching groups to finish our English lesson preparation. This makes a total of 6 young people from the church to join the music camp, and with the 5 returning students from last year plus a new local Taiwan student, we have a total of 12 students, exceeding our goal of ten students. PTL.
After dinner, Eugene started teaching the first session of music theory class, using his broken Mandarin as the primary teaching language! Since all the students either play the piano or sing, their understanding of music is quite good, so Eugene was able to move ahead and work more on vocal techniques. We sang a little, did a music camp orientation, and our daily devotion before turning in.
Attached photos:
Zuodong church worship team
Congregation at Sunday worship
Eugene leading combined choir
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