Silas & Sarah So
There is much opportunity to enlarge the preaching of the Word. We look unto the Lord for His power and blessings in 2012. We pray that the Word of God may have free course and glorified through the literature and the preaching of Christ.
We keep visiting the believers in China and have seen the gospel being fruitful and expanded, for which we are so glad. It is through the preaching of the Word of God and the gracious work of the Holy Spirit in them. We had three days of gospel meetings in Tsuen Wan and three days in Huadou city. These were held on the third and fourth week of July as it is school summer holiday and a very good opportunity for about ninety students and thirty adults to come under the gospel. We thank the Lord, Who gave us power to preach His word. In Huadou, I laboured with some workers there and, with the Lord's help and God's grace, thirty-five young and older people confessed their faith in the Lord Jesus and were publicly baptized on July 17th.
We thank the Lord for His wonderful grace in saving some souls who were added to the assembly in Mongkok. There were two young men, two Filipino ladies and a young lady. They are Henry Hui, Jay Shong, Marites Delo, Cristina Balboa and Ruth Yiu. They took the step of faith in baptism, publicly confessing the saving power of our Lord Jesus, before relatives and friends.
We also received a thank you letter from the Shenyang assembly in a northern province of China. They said, “The past decade most of us have been obtaining the benefits from your service in the CBR literature. The beautiful and meaningful tracts, calendars and books, have influenced many local residents, believers and unbelievers, here and beyond." From November 11th to 14th, I made a visit to Shenyang, for the brethren asked to give ministry. The Lord helped me to preach on the Seven Assemblies in Chapters one to three of Revelation, plus a gospel message. It was a very profitable time to me and to the saints there. Their attitude toward the Lord and His Word was so encouraging. They have a great desire to learn the Word of God, even to sit down for hours to hear and ask many questions from the Bible. I also gave them some methods to memorize Romans and the Ephesian epistles.
We also discussed how to present the gospel to reach more people. Even though under limited freedom, it is also a risk. There were ten university students in this meeting plus some believers and an English professor, brother Chan, who teaches in the university, using many opportunities to teach creation in the school. He made the secretary so angry that he charged brother Chan not to teach creation in the school. The secretary gave many warnings and threatened to fire him. However, in the will of God, recently the secretary moved to another place. He should have had six more years to work here and the amazing thing is that the new secretary is brother Chan's student from the past who is respectable to his teacher. We were so glad our God can do wonderful things for His people so that we may boldly say, “The Lord is my helper, and I will