Maple Springs Chinese Christian Church (Winston-Salem, NC) Student Fellowship held their retreat on 8/1-3, 2014 weekend. Since many of the Fellowship are young Christians, they focused their time on learning how to lead group studies according to the “Inductive/Bible Study Method.” Everyone enjoyed a weekend of fellowship in the bond of Christian love with one another at CLRC Lake Gaston for Bibe studies, sharing, cooking, etc.

學生團契合照 / Student Fellowship Group Picture

早上集體靈修 / Morning Group Devotion

學習 “歸納化研經方法” / “Inductive Bible Study Method” Learning

準備水餃午餐 /Making Dumplings for Lunch

CLRC organized a one day “Preaching” seminar on 8/23/2014 at CCMC (Chinese Christian Mission Church, Durham) from 9:30 AM – 4:30 PM. There are 25 brothers/sisters from the Triangle, Greensboro and Greenville areas attending the seminar. The speaker was Pastor/Dr. John Hsu who had ample pastoral experiences in pulpit ministries. Pastor Hsu emphasized that besides the preaching “skills” which one learns from preaching courses/classes, one must strive to pursue spiritual growth in his life in parallel to what he preaches. Besides lectures in the morning sessions, attendees were divided into small groups to work on the theme, outlines, number of messages based on the book of Colossians. Two brothers were asked to tell a short story to practice communication skills followed by critique from the audience. Four seasoned lay brothers of preaching in their own churches also shared their experiences in preparing sermons and lessons learned through the process. The sharing as well as Pastor Hsu’s lectures are available on the Media Page of CLRC website.

We pray that this seminar will help and strengthen the pulpit ministry of His churches in proclaiming His Word.

講道學講座 / Preaching Seminar

學習定出經文主題和分段 / Learning How to Set the Theme and Sections

分享講章預備經歷 / Sharing of Sermon Preparation

Deer Park Community Church organized a DC Regional Summer Retreat at Lake Gaston on July 11-13. Sixteen pastors/ministers and church members attended the retreat from Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. The theme of the retreat was: Gospel Mind and Kingdom Vision. Church leaders took turns to share messages encouraging one another to hold fast to the great commission of our Lord and seek Him first in His Kingdom.

團體照/Group Picture

營會主題/Banner of Theme

信息/Message

預備燒烤/Preparing for BBQ

各地區參加者/Regional Attendees
(Baltimore, Richmond, Wilmington)

CLRC July 2014 Prayer Letter

Praise the Lord that RCCC’s Young Adults Fellowship (Y.A.L.L./Young Adults Loving the Lord) organized their retreat at Lake Gaston on June 6-8, 2014. This was their first time using the CLRC’s retreat site. About 20 young adults joined the retreat. The topic for their retreat was on the subject of “Missions” – building up faith in sharing the love of Christ with non-believers. The speakers were Mike and Grace Wilson. Besides group meetings, they divided into men and women groups for deeper sharing and praying. Praise the Lord that the weather was good during their stay and some enjoyed fishing, ping-pong, exercise, and “silent retreat” just for relaxation. Many expressed that they would like to come back here for their next retreat at Lake Gaston.

Group Picture/團體照

Meeting/聚會

Preparing Lunch / 準備午餐

Fishing / 釣魚

Women Group / 姊妹小組

Men Group/弟兄小組

Praise God for His guidance and providence during the CLRC’s annual leadership seminar retreat on 4/24-26, 2014. Over 30 pastors/elders/deacons/co-workers from different churches in VA and NC attended. We thank God for bringing Pastors John Hsu and Jian Zhu to teach on the subject of “The Spiritual Life and Character of a Christian Servant Leader.” Audio and video of the retreat’s seminar messages will be available on CLRC’s website under the Media Page for listening and review.

退修會團體照 / Group’s Picture

許道良牧師講座 / Seminar by Pastor John Hsu

祝健牧師講座 / Seminar by Pastor Jian Zhu

敬拜時段 / Worshiping Together

彼此認識時段 / Time of sharing & knowing each other

Praise God that CLRC hosted the NCSU Student Fellowship retreat on February 22-24, 2014, at the Lake Gaston facility in Bracey, VA. The theme of their retreat was “Faith Rooted in Daily Life”, led by Pastor Calvin Tran. Based on the story of Jacob in Genesis, Pastor Tran encouraged all the attendees to live out the true Christian life daily after being changed as Jesus’s followers.

RCCC NCSU Student Fellowship

Prayer during Pastor Calvin Tran’s seminar

The UNC Fellowship also held their Spring break retreat (UNC 學人之家 2014 春假退修營) at CLRC on March 8-9, 2014. AFC’s coworker, Minister C. Peng led a seminar on “Personal Evangelism Skills” with practices and small-group discussion. Other activities included making dumplings, games, gospel film and wine-tasting near the Center.

UNC Fellowship

“Personal Evangelism Skills” seminar

Praise God that CLRC facility has been safe without any damages through the rough winter this year since January but the weather was mild and sunny during the retreats.

Praise God that after more than a year of praying and waiting upon the Lord, He has brought Pastor Wing Yip, formerly the Cantonese and Student Pastor of RCCC, to become the half time Assistant Director / Operations Manager for CLRC effective 3/1/14. He is now responsible for CLRC’s current operations and programs and will be assisting the Execution Director for future development and expansion of CLRC’s ministry.