The Great Commission in Canada’s Moment (Part 2 of 2)

© Lausanne Movement Canada By Bosco Tung 董鎮陞 (Continued from Part I, May issue) If Canada’s cities reflect the global Church in microcosm, then obedience requires more than parallel excellence. It requires trust. That trust must extend across generations as well. The Cape Town Commitment reminds us, “Children and young people are the Church of today, not merely of tomorrow” (II-D-5). In a youth fellowship of roughly sixty students, I witnessed three worship teams serving faithfully and passionately, supported by those who had invested in them, without prompting. Nearly half the group committed to reading through the Bible together for a year. They did not wait until adulthood

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Cultural Divide-Interesting Adventures

Author: Ancy Lee Born in Vietnam, my six siblings, including myself, lived in a Chinese town called “Cholon.” Cantonese was the business dialect that even the native Vietnamese learned to speak. Many of the Vietnamese natives sent their children to Chinese schools. Vietnamese and Chinese have many cultural similarities, but oddities remain between them that deny intermingling. It was not unusual for the Vietnamese to be jealous of the Chinese. They hurled name-calling such as “you bully” to their Chinese neighbours, meaning that the Chinese occupied their jobs, land, and economy. In the 1970s, the Chinese controlled 60% or more of the Vietnamese economy.  A Chinese person’s impression

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