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!
