Christian Leadership Renewal Center 基督僕人更新中心

Dear CLRC Coworkers and Supporters,

Praise God that we gathered to celebrate and give thanks for the wonderful memories and accomplishments by God’s grace. We invited as many as possible the former CLRC coworkers, frequent attendees and active supporters with their spouses, to attend on June 29, 2024 in Raleigh, NC. About 27 people came. However, some of them couldn’t attend because of out-of-town and/or other reasons. Two couples did come from out-of-town and a third out-of-town couple sent beautiful flowers which we’re really grateful.

After a sumptuous Chinese lunch, we sang a familiar customized hymn, created by a former church pastor, which uses the CLRC ministries as a background. We also played the short introduction video of CLRC (available on the website) made by our supporters, which brought back many of the wonderful memories we shared together during the past years. Some of the supporters, who may not have been known and worked behind the scenes, were specially mentioned and appreciated, including my wife Vivian.

At the end I made a short slide presentation, attached below, entitled “Essentials of CLRC” which are precious lessons we’ve learned and tried to implement. It summarized the main concepts and objectives of CLRC. Hopefully they will be remembered by the participants and helpful to our spiritual and church lives. (Regrettably, each slide needs quite a bit of an explanation to fully understand.) A summary of current CLRC status was also given.

Finally, some small prizes were given to those who gave prompt answers to several meaningful questions designed by the moderator. In addition, it was mentioned that good books/magazines, both Chinese and English, are available to give away at the house library in Wake Forest for those interested. Please just contact me.

We look forward to continuing prayers and fellowship with you all in the future.

In Christ’s love,

Albert Yeh
Founder of CLRC

See attached slides< CLRC Essentials

It’s with both joy and sadness for me to announce the ending of CLRC’s (Christian Leadership Renewal Center基督僕人更新中心) ministry at Lake Gaston facility at Bracey, VA, effective March 2022.

It’s sad to end a long and beloved ministry. It was an effort beginning in concept by mid 1990’s and described in my research project, “A Proposal to Strengthen the Leadership of Chinese Churches in North America,” at the Moody Graduate School. The project tried to analyze the critical needs of the Chinese churches and especially their leaders, and the leadership training and development process required to meet the tremendous challenges of the Chinese churches in the 21st century. This effort included the finding of a suitable site, design and construction of the facilities, and implementation of appropriate programs.

Briefly, the CLRC ministry was incorporated and received non-profit status in October 2005. By 2015, we have completed 3 phases of capital and various improvements: 3 buildings, extensive landscaping, 2 docks and walkways, etc. on the 4 acre land we purchased in 1998. Program wise, 11 annual leadership training seminars, and many church, fellowship and personal retreats were held based on our strategic plan. This has been made possible because of the excellent speakers, local churches and dedicated individual volunteers putting in thousands of working hours over these years.

It’s also a joy what we have accomplished. To a certain extent, we have alerted the local churches the importance of developing godly church leaders and the disciplined fellowship / retreat of church co-worker groups/ individuals, which God has designed for a healthy and growing church. There is of course much more to be done, but this is a good beginning and hopefully many churches/individuals have been benefited through the process.

The succession of CLRC ministry has been under consideration for at least the last 5 years. Many suggestions such as plans A,B,C,D,E have been proposed, examined and tried; this also included two “trial periods” with potential “partners” (2019-2021). But at the end, none has worked out for various reasons according to our original vision, criteria and needs. The Board finally decided that it WAS time to terminate the search and trials, liquidate the facility and use the proceeds effectively to support like minded non-profit organizations, consistent with our original vision. We were pleasantly surprised that the property was quickly and smoothly sold, and most of the furniture was given away to CWC and/or other charities. The distribution of the proceeds, which may take some time, will follow the guidelines as set forth by applicable law and the CLRC bylaws. We will again follow God’s leading and guidance carefully every step of the way.

We are grateful to the Lord for starting and also “passing the baton” of this specific ministry at Lake Gaston by His providence and grace. We are also very grateful to the many churches, groups and individuals for their dedicated participation and assistance. The CLRC website will temporarily remain in operation with perhaps some improvements and for the historical records. The Board will execute the remaining tasks for the distribution.

Your prayers will be greatly appreciated as in the past. Please feel free to contact me for any questions/comments. I hope to continue having fellowship with all of you regularly if possible. God willing, I’ll also continue to focus on godly leadership and its formation in His churches*.

May God’s name be glorified.

Your fellow co-worker in Christ,

Albert Yeh
CLRC Founder and President

Thanks be to God! The Discipleship Training Camp at the Christian Leadership Renewal Center during last Thanksgiving was a great success! The center was again full of people, probably 60 to 70 this time, who travelled all the way from NC, SC, MA, and states even farther such as NY, TN and FL. The speaker Brother Bellman Lin was encouraged by their willingness to follow the Lord and to be His disciples and co-workers. Therefore, he was able to complete three sermons per day in his 90s by God’s grace, which in turn greatly strengthened brothers and sisters. God also used Minister Feng Jiao, Pastor Tianjun Shi, and Pastor Ko to help brothers and sisters to have the spirit to follow Jesus as His disciples, and the servant attitude to serve Him silently. The next Disciple Training Camp will be held from March 6th to 11th, 2019.Details and Registration。