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Monday, September 23, 2013

Sixth Partnership Newsletter- August 2013


Sixth Partnership Newsletter- August 2013
Dear my Partners,    

Thanksgivings:
             Praise the Lord who is the creator of time, the sustainer of lives, and the provider of all our needs!
Time flies very fast, isn’t it? Summer is almost over, and a new season filled with hope and mission is greeting us to arrive.  “Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them” (Psalm 19:2-3).
       
 News: Many good news flourishing this August!
            I just taught my first Sunday school class in a Chinese Missionary series, and I got to share about Isobel Kuhn whose autobiography I wanted to read since college. Another good news I want to share with you is that I am accepted into a new Spiritual Formation program, with a spiritual direction certificate cohort and mentorship for two years. To this new opportunity and challenge, honestly I feel like “fear and rejoice with trembling” in serving the Lord this way. And amazing my parents gave me a timely check that will cover all the expense of the additional program fees. Not only that, I am marveled when my grandma gave me a hundred dollars “under table gift” when we were drinking tea. It was the exact amount of the cell phone that I replaced on the day before my grandma’s secret gift because she doesn't want my grandpa knows. J
           
Prayers Request:
            Please pray for my father’s salvation, health and financial wellbeing, and my mother’s growth in Christ. My closest cousin is getting married in September, and my aunt who is undergoing cancer treatment in Guangzhou. She heard the gospel but has not accepted Jesus. Pray that full salvation reaches her asap.  
            Please pray for Eva and I to finish the remaining school works of the summer online courses, the Life of Jesus, and Hebrew. We will have the more intense fall semester ahead, Eva will take 3 courses and I will take 4. Please pray that we will be well prepared before the semester and ready to press on toward the goal.
       
Timely words from the Letter to Philippians (My Partners): “Right feeling for the Right People”
 “ It is right for me to feel this way about all of you, since I have you in my heart and, whether I am in chains or defending and confirming the gospel, all of you share in God’s grace with me.” (Phil. 1:7)


As always, thank you for your partnership with me, and with Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary to bring the gospel of Jesus Christ to a great multitude of the needy people throughout the whole earth.
May our Lord pours out his grace on you and your family, and reward you on earth as well as in heaven!
With Gratitude in Christ,
Tom Chow               

p.s. Please kindly reply if you wish, I hope hear any news and prayer request from you too!   

                          

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