感恩 Thanksgiving

2023年马其顿华欧宣教大会圆满结束，共有17个国家地区代表参加（第18个囯家罗马尼亚五位代表得不到签证，没有办法入境，只能在线上分享）。在上帝的带领之下，各讲员的信息和异象分享、见证等，蛮有亮光和能力。与会者在多元文化群体中学习，特别是在东欧各族群之中，看见上帝的奇妙工作。这也鞭策我们进一步关注欧洲这最贫困、苦难连连的巴尔干半岛地区。当中，马其顿、阿尔巴尼亚、科索沃和塞尔维亚是本次最被呼吁关心的地区。会前，有一队从雅典开始走保罗脚踪；会后有一队走访两天在马其顿三个城市做探访和事工交流；另一队到三个国家做短宣和考察。在大会之中所触动引发的事工相当切实，包括神学教育的延伸、宣教士的差派、以后短宣的筹划、欧洲青少年和第二代事工的落实、新媒体的运用、开荒建立新教会、购堂、支援穷困传道人等，十分丰富，愿主成就。

大会中有多位领袖深深感觉到这是华人教会进入东欧跨文化宣教具体行动的一个大突破，也是历史性的。这将改写华人教会跟东欧民族合作宣教的历史。我们也祷告这个事工继续发展下去，成为这一个时代马其顿呼声的另一个传奇，更是华人教会顺服大使命的宣教见证与传奇。

小仆王美锺2023年4月1日于马其顿

The 2023 Macedonia Hua Ou (Chinese and European) Mission Conference was successfully concluded, with representatives from 17 countries and regions participating (five representatives from the 18th country, Romania, could not obtain visas, so they could only share online). Under the leadership of God, the messages, vision sharing and testimonies of the speakers were enlightening and powerful. Participants learn about God's miraculous work in multicultural groups, especially among Eastern European ethnic groups. This also spurs us to pay more attention to the Balkan Peninsula, the poorest and suffering region in Europe. Among them, North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo and Serbia are the most concerned regions this time.

Before the meeting, a team started to journey through Paul’s footsteps from Athens ; after the meeting, a team visited three cities in Macedonia for two days of mission survey; the other team went to three countries for short-term missions and to explore partnerships.

The ministries that were triggered during the conference were quite tangible, including the extension of theological education, the sending of missionaries, the planning of short-term missions in the future, the implementation of European youth and second-generation ministry, the application of new media, church planting, purchase of church building, support poor pastors’ families, etc. These follow up action plan were adopted respectively by the participants.

Many leaders at the conference deeply felt that this was a major breakthrough in the actions of Chinese churches engaging Eastern European cross-culturally. The conference and actions followed after it will be written into the history of Chinese world mission efforts. This will rewrite the history of missionary cooperation between Chinese churches and Eastern European nations. We also pray that this ministry will continue to develop and become another legend of the Macedonian call in this era. This is also the testimony of the Chinese church’s obedience to the Great Commission.