{FECA Vision Choir} Join Vision!

Vision is recruiting for TWO teams to minister with Habibi International in Kurdish Iraq. The Lord willing, the Early Spring team will be a medical/dental/music team to bring physical and spiritual relief to the Yazidis in the Zahko area. The early summer team is planning to connect with Habibi's educational team to teach English and bring music to the children and youth both at the IDP camps and at the Seje Safe House (www.Medeast.org). Please email marshall.huang@feca.org for more information if God is calling you to join.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Home Concert reminder

Vision will be singing and sharing their testimonies at Home Concert held at FEC Glendale next Saturday, August 17 at 7 PM. Please join us at this celebration of God's goodness.

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{FECA Vision Choir} Home safely

We all arrived back at Ontario Airport at 3:45, cleared immigration and customs before 5 PM. Charmaine and Tania emailed several hours ago that they are with their grandmother in Hong Kong. Josh is flying back to LAaX about 6 hours after us. Thank God for a safe and uneventful trip back. Thank you all for your prayers and all the parents and Eugene Cheng for meeting us at the airport,

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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 16

Sunday August 4

The Uber showed up in less than 5 minutes after we messaged him to take Charmaine and Tania to the airport.  With no traffic, they arrived there at 5:45, in plenty of t8me to catch their Hong Kong flight.  The rest of us finished packing, ate the rest of the fruit from yesterday, packed up everything and loaded up the bus by 7:30, arriving at Agape Church by about 8:30, in plenty of time to warm up before their 10 AM service start.  Dr. Albert Chang graciously gave us 40 minutes to sing and share, replacing the sermon time, so this is kind of a celebration mini-home concert for us.  Gabbie shared about the English teaching, Eugene shared about the Taruko and Filipino service in Hualien, and Marshall summarized our two weeks here using a PowerPoint slide presentation put together by Josh.  We sang on stage, in the round - surrounding the congregation, casually, probably not what one would expect in a Sunday service used to more formal teaching, but perhaps enjoyed by Albert who is used to ministering to students and likes to joke around.  As Albert's guests, we ate a delicious lunch in the restaurant one floor up in the Xue Xue building which the church borrows on Sunday.  Just before we left, we prayed for the 4 students still with us.  We left at 1:15 PM on the bus for the airport arriving at 2.  By the time we checked in and cleared security and passport control, it was almost 4 PM, an hour an a half before boarding.  Thank God, no problems, general good health the whole trip, and wonderful time with all the music students.  Tina, Mickey and Terry (Adam left us after lunch to hurry home to celebrate father's day) all went in with us through the check-in until we had to enter security - they just could not bear to say good bye to us nor our high schoolers leave them.

Start of service at Agape Church

Lunch with Uncle Albert and Yi-pei 

{FECA Vision Choir} Report 15

Saturday August 3

Today is our last full day in Taiwan.  Late last night, Tina came back, another surprise, having taken the last train from Hsinchu.  After breakfast, we debriefed yesterday's activities and did our daily devotions,  we then spent the day debriefing our two weeks in Taiwan, starting a little after 9 AM.  A few minutes after noon, we went across the street to eat lunch.  We met Daniel and Emily Ko there.  Daniel is a former colleague of Marshall at TRW who works here in Taipei and his wife works at Tamsui.  They are also good friends of Jennifer and Willis and Jocelyn.  After lunch, Daniel drove us to a fresh fruit market where we bought watermelons, mangos and pineapples to snack on in the afternoon, after dinner, and breakfast tomorrow,  We continued debriefing at 2 PM, finally finishing at 5 PM, about 6 hours total in a room with one underpowered air conditioner and four hard working electrical fans, so it was like being in a sauna the last three hours.  The debriefing was sweet, emotional at times, but quite edifying as we reviewed what God had done and praised Him for clarifying some future directions for some individuals.  We rested for an hour, and went along the river walk to eat at various vendor booths in Tamsui, returned home to shower and pack.  Charmaine and Tania are leaving us at 5 AM tomorrow morning to catch an 8 AM flight to Hong Kong, but the four Taiwan students, Mickey (a she not a he), Tina, Adam, and Terry are joining us to sing at Agape Church tomorrow before we part ways.

Emily, Marshall, Meiring and Daniel at lunch.  Josh is ordering lunch and Vision is sitting behind Daniel.

Re: {FECA Vision Choir} Report 12

In case you did not know, Anna Hamada is the daughter of Rev. George Chua, who started FEC in 1965 in His living room.

On Jul 31, 2019, at 9:53 PM, 'Anna Hamada' via FECA Vision Choir <visionsings@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi Marshall,

Dr.Makay was the missionary that went to Taipei in the late 1800. My great grandfather was a nonbeliever and was converted by Dr. Makay. Then my great grandfather became a missionary and later planted  many churches in the Taipei area. 

I went to Taipei In March and was able to attend the church service in the church planted by my great grandfather.

 Amazing  God we have.

Anna

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On Jul 31, 2019, at 5:53 AM, Marshall <umarsh07@gmail.com> wrote:

Wednesday July 31

The guys went to buy breakfast for us and bring them to where we are staying.  We left at 8:20 for Mackay Hospital.  After warming up in the chapel, we went to the hospice and palliative ward and sang for 30 minutes to the dying patients there.  Then we went to the lobby at the hospital entrance and sang for another 30 minutes to whoever was there waiting to see a doctor.  We were treated to lunch, an interesting sushi-like roll (but it was warm rice, not vinegar sour rice).  There is a layer of plastic on the inside between the seaweed outside and the rice.  The plastic kept the seaweed from the moisture in the rice so the seaweed was nice and crisp until inside the plastic is pulled up just before eating the roll.  We then had our half day off by going to Jiufen, where we sampled different foods and shopped for souvenirs.  We returned by 5 PM to send off Tricia and greet Terry who has returned after taking his calculus test this morning.  We then ate dinner at another small restaurant, did our daily devotions and debriefed our day.  Kayla, who is planning to study nursing shared she was quite touched by watching the care given to one of the patients in the hospice ward.

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20 passenger bus on the way to Jiufen taken by Charmaine's selfie
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{FECA Vision Choir} Report 14

Friday August 2

Rita left us at 7 AM to return home.  Like Tina and the rest of the non-churched Taiwan students, they are very open to the gospel and ask a lot of penetrating questions during devotion time.  But their parents' wishes still remain a large obstacle for them to come to full trust in Jesus' redemptive work.  But we believe in God's time, they will all come to faith.  Continue to pray.

We ate breakfast at 7:30 and did our devotion from Mark 8 where Jesus challenges us to follow Him.  We left at 9 to visit Willis and Jocelyn Han and their Interserve ministry to mobilize the Taiwan youth to serve in Muslim countries.  Willis shared about their life journey and how God called them to recruit professionals in any profession to use their expertise to serve the Lord.  He showed us pictures of their time in Kergistan, and we asked them and their daughter Phoebe lots of questions about growing up in a third culture country.  The 4 youths, Bel, Jack, Vivi, and Michael from Zuodong church surprised us with a visit.  We sang Majesty and Glory, The Lord Bless You and Keep You (Aaronic Blessing) with Jocelyn, who was in Vision for many years in the late 1980's, sing with us.  We ate a delicious boxed lunch and left to go to Taoyuan, to a retirement home near where Pastor Obet lives.  Because of the extra 4 Zuodong youths, we now had 22 and our bus is a 20 passenger bus so Adam and Terry's  We started our program in the basement, got through about half of it with Maddy and Bel sharing their testimonies, when the management wanted to move us upstairs to the courtyard to sing so all the residents on all 13 floors could hear us.  So we scraped the rest of our program including our skit to sing upstairs in the lobby.  We stood in a circle and repeated some of our songs, Pastor Obet shared a short gospel message, and we finished with all the guys, including Adam, Terry, Michael, and Jack joining, singing Find Us Faithful and the Aaronic Blessing.  We then went back downstairs to the AC basement to cool off.  Auntie Jennifer bought us all ice cream; we found out Pastor Obet is about to celebrate his silver (25) wedding anniversary so we wished him a happy anniversary and sang the Aaronic blessing to him.  We then left to go back to Taipei to eat a banquet hosted by Marshall and Meiring (not paid by Vision).  Among the guests able to join us are Yipeh, Dr. Albert Chang's assistant who did so much coordination with Josh in planning our trip here, and Willis, Jocelyn and Phoebe.  After dinner, we said good bye to our guests, went down to the metro train station below the restaurant, and took the train back to Tamsui.  On route, the 4 Zhudong students got off at Taipei Train Station to return home.  We returned to our apartment about 9:30, showered and got ready for bed, the end of a long day.

Willis and Jocelyn sharing about their ministry

Singing at the basement of Taoyuan retirement home

Stuffed after a full meal tonight; Yipeh, Jocelyn, and Willis are on the right

{FECA Vision Choir} Fwd: video of singing at Mackay Memorial

The organist accompanied Vision in this rendition of The Lord Bless You and Keep You yesterday.


Begin forwarded message:

From: Joshua Yeh <gubo32@gmail.com>
Date: August 2, 2019 at 4:24:26 PM GMT+8
To: Marshall Huang <umarsh07@gmail.com>

https://youtu.be/D63gg5pL4b8

Sent from my iPhone

{FECA Vision Choir} Report 13

Thursday August 1

We left at 7 AM and ate breakfast on the bus to get to ORTV (Overseas Radio and TV) studios in time to join their 8 AM Chapel service.  ORTV is a world-wide ministry broadcasting the gospel with words and music. Their choir, Heavenly Melodies has sung and ministered everywhere.  Chris Chen, Josh Yeh's grandfather, was the first church administrator at FEC (before all the branch churches) and was the first chairman of the board at ORTV and Lily Lau of FECG and Vision's second music director, sang with Heavenly Melodies.  We spent 15 minutes in worship with about 100 of their staff, accompanied by the musicians, a clarinetist, drummer, pianist and a couple more instruments.  Pastor Obet (who also works there) introduced us and we sang He's Calling My Name and Majesty and Glory.   After chapel, Josh asked his long-time friend Ken, a sound engineer to record about ten of our songs.  This took about an hour and a half.  We were then given a tour of their sound-proof studios and their TV studios.  We learned about their broadcast ministry and a new project to record the entire Bible read in dramatic fashion.  We ate box lunches in their comfortable 5th floor break room, and left at 1 PM.

Marshall and Meiring were dropped off at the offices of Grace Publishing, who printed our last edition of our hymnal, Hymns for God's People, and will be printing our new Expanded Edition shortly to have detailed discussions on the particulars of the hymnal (errata pages, cover color, paper type, etc.).  The rest of the team went to visit the Mackay Memorial where we learned about the 62 churches he planted in Taiwan and the 30 thousand converts he baptized.  We even sang The Lord Bless You and Keep You at the chapel accompanied by the organist of this huge pipe organ.

After returning to Tamsui, we debriefed Rita who is leaving us today, talked about our day and did our devotion in the late afternoon so we can go enjoy ourselves at the night market tonight.

View from our Tamsui apartment at sunrise

Worshipping at ORTV

Sound room where ORTV broadcasts

ORTV studio "Jungle Cafe" set