There are 28 Missionaries called to serve in the Australia Brisbane Mission speaking Mandarin Chinese.
It is an amazing dimension to this mission working with these great young men and young women, who are working miracles in Queensland teaching and baptizing. We now have Chinese Training Leaders who oversee the missionaries assigned to serve in this capacity; they teach, train and manage the situations that are unique to these missionaries. They held their first Chinese Training Meeting which we were privileged to attend. Singing hymns in Chinese was a first
(thinking of our missionary daughter, Sarah, in Taiwan...).
Listening to this fascinating language as they shared scriptures, thoughts and teaching with each other was so inspiring.
THEY ARE WONDERFUL!
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| These missionaries come from Taiwan, China, Singapore, Japan, United States, Hong Kong, and Australia |
So happy to see this .
ReplyDeleteMy son will be there in June ,
He and his companion are called to serve in Mandarin speaking .
Looking forward to see his pictures there !
2 more countries , Canada and England !
ReplyDeleteWe taught English at NPU in Xi'an 2011-12 for BYU's Kennedy Center. We respected the directive to avoid proselyting, but we met some lovely people. One gentleman who visited in our apartment was delighted to practice his English and discuss our Western Culture with us. Early on he said cheerfully, "Tell me about Christian." We told him we must respect our agreement with the Chinese government not to discuss religion. He became more thoughtful and we expected him to say something about his government. Instead he said quietly, "I think many [Chinese] people will know about Jesus Christ." Also, it was interesting to realize while we were there that China and Australia have strong ties. Bless these missionaries!!
ReplyDeleteMy son enters mtc May 28 and is also so excited to get to Brisbane and get to work Thanks for posting this, something for him to look forward to.
ReplyDeleteWhen I entered the Brisbane mission as a Chinese speaking missionary in December of 2009, there were only four Chinese speaking missionaries. The transfer before I left, in late 2011, I was district leader over the first Chinese district in Sunnybank (with a total of 6 missionaries in the district, and twelve overall in the mission.) It's incredible to see that it's grown so much! We never would have predicted the day that there were 28 Chinese missionaries in the mission!
ReplyDeleteEnjoyed reading your post. My son just entered the MTC today and will be one of your mandarin Chinese speaking missionaries in Brisbane.
ReplyDeleteI was thrilled to connect you to your mother. She was one of my favorite high school English teachers!
Love from Florida
And your sister is married to my very favorite Seminary teacher, Bro. Anderson! I used to babysit for them from time to time. Small world
DeleteThis is Sister Cabamongan's brother Matthew. I just wanted to thank you for your posts.
ReplyDeleteIn 1957 through 1959, Before and after that, the Australian Mission >NSW & Qlnd,< only had American & a few Australians. We were English speaking only. It's great that so many languages are taught there and throughout the whole world. P.S. Cars and name tags were not yet invented. Just Bicycles, Public Transportation ,and SHANKS PONIES..
ReplyDelete你好！我今天刚收到我的召唤信。我要在澳大利亚布里斯班这个传部当姐妹传教士啦！我也用普通话宣讲福音。我太期待了！等不及认识你们，跟你们交朋友啊！我九月份在MTC报到。一会儿见！^.^
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