tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79660057840859216542024-03-28T20:10:40.188+11:00Hyphenated FaithHYPHENATED FAITH
Musings and materials of Amelia KB - a hyphenated identity, half-Chinese, half-Scottish Aussie... Minister, widow, step mum, foster mum, mentor, sister, missiologist, theologian, home cook, writer, musician, creative... a place of play and dabbling.Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.comBlogger290125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-78230070055970618982024-03-28T20:04:00.003+11:002024-03-28T20:04:16.841+11:00Easter acknowledgement<p>EASTER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY</p><p>Co-developed with Rev Ellie Elia</p><p>——-</p><p> </p><p>Earth and stars, waters and breeze</p><p>In this place, the place of the Dharug and Gundungurra peoples, we celebrate the connection between </p><p>embodied life and spiritual fulfilment. </p><p><br /></p><p>As Easter people, we look upon the hills and valleys,</p><p>we see the love poured out upon this Land</p><p>by those who have cared for this place</p><p>since time beyond measure. </p><p><br /></p><p>As Easter people we honour the story </p><p>of life, death and resurrection of the first peoples </p><p>who long to honour the stories of dreaming. </p><p><br /></p><p>We bring ourselves respectfully to the traditional peoples of this land, praying in wonder and hope, </p><p>that restoration and resurrection </p><p>will become the reality of heaven in this place.</p><p><br /></p><p>May Christ’s way of reconciliation and peace</p><p>show us how to walk gently upon this land</p><p>and with one another.</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-15302908854565416302024-03-23T14:08:00.003+11:002024-03-23T14:08:30.999+11:00Sending Blessing of the Children of God<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">Go with fullness<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">Go with comfort<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">Live with richness in God’s land.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">Go with justice<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">Go with mercy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">See your God, so close at hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">Child, with Christ, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">go work for peace.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">In the struggle, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">do not cease.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">Be blessed, made holy,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">Sent by One – <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">Creator, Spirit <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">and the Son.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">In you, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">may God’s blessing come.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">With you, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">may God’s blessing come.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">Through you, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="FR">may God’s blessing come. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">Amen! Amen! Amen!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">The above text is based on a reading of the Beatitudes (Matthew 5)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">“Blessed are those who are poor in spirit:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">the kin-dom of heaven is theirs. 4 Blessed are those who are mourning:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">they will be consoled. 5 Blessed are those who are gentle:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">they will inherit the land. 6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for justice:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">they will have their fill. 7 Blessed are those who show mercy to others:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">they will be shown mercy. 8 Blessed are those whose hearts are clean:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">they will see God. 9 Blessed are those who work for peace:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">they will be called children of God. 10 Blessed are those who are persecuted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">because of their struggle for justice:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><span lang="FR">the kindom of heaven is theirs. 11<o:p></o:p></span></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-41550574014450091262024-03-18T20:06:00.002+11:002024-03-18T20:06:36.403+11:00Rizpah<h2 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Rizpah...</span></h2><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><p>Whose war takes my children from me?</p><p>Whose profit is paid for by lost generations?</p><p>Whose brutality leaves only a decaying vigil?</p><p> </p><p>The days and nights between death and burial are long.</p><p>Yet, grief knows no measure.</p><p>The cells that knitted together inside my womb</p><p>Now disintegrate on our shared cloth of tears.</p><p>But, do not cry, my sons,</p><p>For my tears must be enough for you</p><p>Although they will never satisfy me.</p><p>I will carry your memory until I am forgotten</p><p> </p><p><b>Prayer –</b></p><p><b>We pray for those who grieve violence</b></p><p>For those who hold dead children in their arms</p><p>And for those who never receive remains</p><p>For those who search among the fallen</p><p>And those whose escape means never knowing</p><p><b>May those who grieve by comforted</b></p><p> </p><p><b>We pray for those who perpetrate violence</b></p><p>For those who are are conscripted to wars</p><p>And for those who seek survival</p><p>For those who no longer remember tenderness of heart</p><p>And those who see monsters in the mirror</p><p><b>May those who wield swords choose plowshares</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p> </p><p>Truth-telling</p><p>formed of lies and deceptions:</p><p>Call us your children.</p><p>Cries for justice paint targets on our communities:</p><p> </p><p>We pray:</p><p>For the persecutors, who reinforce privilege by dehumanizing those God loves</p><p>For the rich, who profit from labour practices that keep poor those God loves</p><p>For the powerful, whose identity is defined by superiority rather than humility</p><p>Have mercy, O God, restore dignity, worth, and humanity.</p><p>Amen</p><p><br /></p><div><u><br /></u></div></div>AKBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835036394249035266noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-67902497835928092302023-12-01T18:45:00.001+11:002023-12-01T18:45:08.790+11:00Praying for Peace - Advent 2023<p>Schools in Myanmar are closed. </p><p>Faithful disciples tend to children, teaching language and numbers from life experience.</p><p><b>Peace be upon those who are carers in places and times of distress.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Mobs attack the vulnerable in Manipur.</p><p>The conscience of individuals falls to the press of the many.</p><p><b>Peace be upon those who suffer and those who accompany them.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Bitter cold companions the bitterness of broken communities in Ukraine and Russia.</p><p>People are forced from their homes, either as refugees or unwilling warriors.</p><p><b>Peace be upon those in the midst of warzones and those who have left them.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>The birthplace of the Palestinian Messianic Jew is as unholy as ever.</p><p>The land and her people are daily crucified.</p><p><b>Peace be to those who birth HOPE in the midst of unwelcome rubble.</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>In these days of tears, we long for your coming - Bring peace, O God!</b></p><p><b>Come! Come! Emmanuel - be with us!</b></p>AKBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03835036394249035266noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-33759957385919843212023-10-13T21:03:00.000+11:002023-10-13T21:03:01.385+11:00Yes<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have listened and I desire to hear more...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Of the stories of Land and Sky, of the Seven Sisters and the deep spirits.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I have heard fiction and 'fact', </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">but I desire to hear Truths from the heart.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I live a long way away, but my heartland is the dusty red earth and the island home.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Even from a distance, I listen for the kookaburras and the magpies.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I long for the day when the shame of vulgar racial disparities is bridged, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so that my sisters and brothers may access the same privileges as most of our citizens.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I want to hear how they can take that journey, and I commit to accompanying them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I wish for the conversation where my imagination is grown by the ancients </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">and I can bring the ift of fresh attention and respect.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The people who welcomed and adopted me, honoured and rejected my late-husband, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">giving his earthly remains and his spirit a place of resting until the renewal of all things,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">so I pray that we can work together for renewal.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">This is why I am voting YES.</div><br /><br /><p></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-59634269670816479482023-06-22T07:32:00.004+10:002023-06-22T07:32:49.402+10:00Training in Mission Program [2023]<p>TIM is more than 40 year old. It is a Training in Mission program that includes a Diploma in Mission and experiential learning in field work.</p><p>This year’s TIMs will do the following:</p><p>Week 1 [17-23 June] Orientation and visits to Centenary Methodist Church, Welcome Dinner at Pacific Theological Collège, visit to Museum, general orientation, beginning our mission garden.</p><p>Weeks 2-8 [24 June-14 August] Diploma in Mission, undertaken through Trinity College, Auckland, New Zealand, with a range of international teachers.</p><p>Week 9 - Experience visits</p><p>Week 10. [30 August-2 September] Godly Play training </p><p>Week 11/12 - Mission trip to Tuvalu [eco-justice focus]</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-10408232441670333822023-06-12T14:29:00.002+10:002023-06-12T16:44:40.068+10:00Visiting Dayan Indigenous people in Taiwan<p><span style="font-family: verdana;">An 80 minute bus-drive from Changhua city into the mountains area situated us close to the clouds. The local church is the MEIYUAN church, made up of Dayan people. The 23 families of this local church make up about one-third of the village population. There is also a Catholic Church and two True Jesus Churches. They share a Community Hall (more like a fixed outdoor open-air roof structure).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The local Pastor was in his first Placement post-seminary. He has been in the community for 10 years and has encouraged a 'cradle-to-grave' approach to mission and ministry. The church buildings are used on Sunday for worship, but they are also used every weekday for Seniors' Ministries (at least 2-3 hours per day) and also for After-school Programs (2 hours per day). This holds the small village community together very effectively, promoting communal responsibility towards pastoral care and discipleship.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The children in this congregation make up half the children in the local primary school. They spend two hours a day together after school at the church. This forms them into church family relationships, encouraging one another for life. This becomes particularly important for their identity as they must leave the village for highschool (daily) and for higher education (moving to the cities).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGpTLynCxczLf_64kcl8k8TUqRMtjtW5uv24sPYxhS13IYea02thCCh68uVSvisZ1T2kYtwHZI6IKwNfl0THV8vwehlYcCytqGEX0GxUfoOc0XbK_26g1O-b76pADhXdAHuNt_NFxsX4IDMqUe9iNP6mn_WCC9ZMhgt4vZYpw3bIugm-rvkvemKeicXg/s2048/353007132_10160659009435155_7586107938535708859_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGpTLynCxczLf_64kcl8k8TUqRMtjtW5uv24sPYxhS13IYea02thCCh68uVSvisZ1T2kYtwHZI6IKwNfl0THV8vwehlYcCytqGEX0GxUfoOc0XbK_26g1O-b76pADhXdAHuNt_NFxsX4IDMqUe9iNP6mn_WCC9ZMhgt4vZYpw3bIugm-rvkvemKeicXg/s320/353007132_10160659009435155_7586107938535708859_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i>The back row members </i></span><p></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i>of the </i></span></p><p><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i>MEIYUAN Children's Choir...</i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHfSfKrWAGM_F1RFagWmKbw7rG1Nb2mRC5AMjKmSmWkBjSGaNyP2dz7hTRVEseO9Oa3hIcTKWkCizVcqgAgzRo6Xz6cjROTqQkavuUPNT8uFUOMGPB7Sn54pfOGhk0JQO8tavZ33tyFBFQQ_D7nSoZJ9uDSvhGKE9hRTM70emWz-42jrTH6lW6bRCZg/s2048/353618455_10160659009880155_3365240339922500701_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHfSfKrWAGM_F1RFagWmKbw7rG1Nb2mRC5AMjKmSmWkBjSGaNyP2dz7hTRVEseO9Oa3hIcTKWkCizVcqgAgzRo6Xz6cjROTqQkavuUPNT8uFUOMGPB7Sn54pfOGhk0JQO8tavZ33tyFBFQQ_D7nSoZJ9uDSvhGKE9hRTM70emWz-42jrTH6lW6bRCZg/s320/353618455_10160659009880155_3365240339922500701_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800180; font-family: verdana;"><i>These girls all sang lovely solos!</i></span></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The elderly members participate in music and movement, games, physically and mentally stimulating activities. There is a chef, who creates nutritious meals for wellbeing. In the early afternoon, visits take place to single elderly, to check on their wellbeing and provide appropriate support.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOKxmE85JWoLz02cLkF2gwZoK4BpMbHdSKLV9ZX_R_DukJRQW2VLbOXkxKL6bjmPBts6HXg1cNqUfH0oh6MZvOq7IeEuQaH1V6Vu4F1Gxk83_I8BvfvfJIi3gdoX30ld81CU6Z0xh6_XN2mms2Mxe6gXUtFVHAS0i6a3X8twhcdVbAVadFtJWl4iB3Q/s2048/353465554_10160659009665155_9221714950183825674_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQOKxmE85JWoLz02cLkF2gwZoK4BpMbHdSKLV9ZX_R_DukJRQW2VLbOXkxKL6bjmPBts6HXg1cNqUfH0oh6MZvOq7IeEuQaH1V6Vu4F1Gxk83_I8BvfvfJIi3gdoX30ld81CU6Z0xh6_XN2mms2Mxe6gXUtFVHAS0i6a3X8twhcdVbAVadFtJWl4iB3Q/s320/353465554_10160659009665155_9221714950183825674_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span style="color: #800180;">Everyone in the Church participates in singing and dancing!</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">The Church was rebuilt after an earthquake and is obviously well cared for and very well used. Our group of CWM Member Church leaders and CWM staff were privileged to enjoy the wonderful hospitality of our friendly and welcoming hosts. Language was not a barrier, as we sign-languaged about grandchildren and food, the role of carers, growing food plants, cooking and how water is collected and shared. It was clear there are landcare issues, as the river water is contamiated by pesticides (from further upstream), making it undrinkable.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mLcitkpz3OSH0EU7wJZ8tE0jVAMK7LmdA8NUSHkPrO7hkd1y1Pacu0xk71uAwoichV2UmY1e3e7KRW6yNd6fGyF4zB_ntPRPT7y-ldU67gqyniu12uakmG4ORBVB9PBMviaxjGNOLWqkYPUwJaEuRubpVnlAdAHEB5i8XRRadB3xGVzrig7a7pdGOQ/s2048/353448217_10160659009905155_8321981230774448702_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mLcitkpz3OSH0EU7wJZ8tE0jVAMK7LmdA8NUSHkPrO7hkd1y1Pacu0xk71uAwoichV2UmY1e3e7KRW6yNd6fGyF4zB_ntPRPT7y-ldU67gqyniu12uakmG4ORBVB9PBMviaxjGNOLWqkYPUwJaEuRubpVnlAdAHEB5i8XRRadB3xGVzrig7a7pdGOQ/w402-h302/353448217_10160659009905155_8321981230774448702_n.jpg" width="402" /></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> </span></div><p></p><h2 class="qrShPb pXs6bb PZPZlf q8U8x aTI8gc hNKfZe" data-attrid="title" data-dtype="d3ifr" data-local-attribute="d3bn" data-ved="2ahUKEwjX2Mbfi73_AhXumVYBHelGDRsQ3B0oAHoECE8QAQ" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Google Sans", arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.34; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #800180; font-size: medium;"><i>Beigang Nuomishih Bridge (北港溪糯米石橋)</i></span></h2><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">This is the 'Sticky Rice Bridge', spanning the Beigang River that flows into the Dadu River. The Beigang village is closeby. It was so-named because it had to be rebuilt at a time when mortar was scarce, so a form of rice-flour paste was made to help hold the stones together. [It has since been rebuilt.]</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">The survival of indigenous cultures here is a great challenge for both the nation and the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan. Dayan Presbytery is the largest of the 23 Presbyteries here and the ministry among indigenous people is life-affirming. The commitment of the Church is actually enhanced by the support of the Taiwanese Government, who sees the great value of the Church mission work in helping indigenous language and culture to flourish.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-82741606723760290482023-06-10T18:57:00.005+10:002023-06-12T13:51:18.436+10:00Tiny Home<p>The challenge of moving house is what to take and what to leave behind. I was widowed three years ago and still had many of the items of a ‘family home’. When I took a Mission role and agreed to move to either Singapore or London, I knew I could no longer justify living in a multi-room house. This meant I would have to do the Marée Kondo and say thanks a goodbye to lots of ‘stuff’. I have passed on many treasures and kept some precious items which have stories representative of life, love, community and special places.</p><p>On moving to Singapore, I soon discovered that the ‘relocation allowance’ generously provided by CWM would probably cover up to a month of hotel accommodation. However, the fixed monthly accommodation allowance had been based on pre-pandemic rental conditions. My allowance would cover a studio in a condominium or a 1BR+living unit in HDB (housing development board Govt-sponsored housing). I also discovered that in Singapore, we pay 2 months rent to the agent on top of the bond and rent - all to be paid up-front. </p><p>You can’t open a bank account easily without a home address. You can’t easily get a lease without a bank account. Welcome to the realities of migration. While homelessness seemed to be beckoning, I was helped by prayerful collègues and managed to secure a loft/1 Bed apartment in a nice Condo in a very convenient area. I now live at Tanah Merah, only 7 metro stops to work at Lavender and only 2 metro stops to the airport. With the amount I travel, this is really an answer to prayer.</p><p>My little loft suits me fine - for I am vertically challenged! I get about 4-5cm clearance to the ceiling, when I am standing beside the bed. No taller people will really want to come and stay, but you can come and visit and I will take you to a Hawker Centre for a very nice meal! My little kitchen is fine for one, but did not come with an oven, so I have bought an air-fryer… I felt the same way about doing that as I am sure my grandmother did about buying a microwave… a new adventure in home economics and the excuse to try new recipes!</p><p>Living in a tiny space challenges me about repurposing, consumerism and thinking very carefully about any acquisition. I now have a capsule wardrobe and can travel for 2 weeks pretty easily with only carry-on that includes two laptops - which in developing places is more important than having clothes anyway.. .</p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/rXWK0cSA2kA">My tiny loft...</a></p><p><br /></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-72636581018952618652023-06-01T14:07:00.008+10:002023-06-01T14:07:47.880+10:00Blessing for Mission Sunday<p> Word of Mission and Blessing</p><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">May the God of all creation pour out the Holy Spirit upon you,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">So that you may glorify God and rejoice.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Remember your baptism and the blessings<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">you have received from God – Creator, Redeemer and Spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Show no partiality, but share the good news with everyone you encounter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">be God’s missionary people in this world that God loves.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">May the blessing of God be upon you!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">May we go to bless all the world. Amen!</span></p></div>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-83133329948252309492023-06-01T14:07:00.002+10:002023-06-01T14:07:16.158+10:00Thanksgiving, Dedication, Intercessions for Mission<p> </p><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Prayer of Thanksgiving for Mission (2 voices)</span></h3><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 We TELL of the glory of God!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks for the Gospel and the passion to share it around the world - the people who make the sacrifice to make Christ known…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 Holy God, we give you thanks and praise for good news shared by missionaries past and present, especially the Partners in Mission, and the relationships grown between churches and communities. Thank you for their service and commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 We TEACH and develop disciples to follow the Way of Christ!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks for teachers and learners, mentors and places of nurture - the knowledge of your ways that lead to Life and flourishing…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 Jesus the teacher, we thank you for giving us models of nurture and learning. We give thanks for those who taught us and those whose commitment to others around the world have led to schools, colleges, universities and libraries. We thank you for the many scholars and programmes of learning and growth (DARE, TIM, Face2Face, A New Face). Thank you for the spiritual gift of Wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 Healing God, we thank you for your mission to TEND to the needs of the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 We give thanks for those who hear the cries of the needy and do something about it. We are thankful for our nurses and health workers, for technicians and helpers, for those who comfort in times of crisis. We give thanks for the Gifts of Grace that enabled churches to provide comfort during the worst of the pandemic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 Messiah - Our Lord - thank you for challenging the unrighteous and giving voice to the poor and oppressed. Thank you for showing us the way of repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 We thank you, God, for the prophetic voices and people of action who work to TRANSFORM the unjust structures of the societies we live in. We thank you for the vision of the Kingdom of Heaven that shows us a better way for the economy of life. We thank you for those who work for justice and wellbeing in your name.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 Creator of All we honour you and give you thanks for the works of your mighty hand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 72pt; text-indent: -72pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 We give thanks for day and night, for light and dark, for earth and water, for creatures of the sea and air. We give you thanks for our very lives. We thank you for CWM actions to care for your creations - for the planting of coral and mangrove, for reforestation and improvements in land management, for the day-to-day acts of creation care taken by our member churches.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Voices 1&2 Thanks and praise to God! Amen</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><h3><span style="font-weight: normal;">Prayers of Dedication and Intercession</span></h3><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 O God, who sees all, bless these gifts of money<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt; text-indent: 21.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> and use them in your mission among those at the margins.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 O God, who hears every word of prayer, take our time and health<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> and use us to be signs of your Gospel in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 3 O God, who gives us breath, give us prophetic voices<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 50.2pt; text-indent: 21.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so that we might speak your comfort and words of healing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 50.2pt; text-indent: 21.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And so we pray…</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray first for those who build hospitals and housing, places of care and refuge,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">for the architects and construction workers, for the project managers,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and those who run clinics, patiently waiting the building of new facilities.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In all places of hardship, where people have experienced the breakdown of social systems and economic challenges.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray for healthcare workers, who have been exhausted<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">from the ravages of COVID and from the impacts of tensions and conflicts.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray for those who educate and their students.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray for those who sow the seeds of learning and ask for good soil,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so that flourishing may take place.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray for those who struggle with anxiety and depression,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">which acts like thorns to choke off life – bless the needy with signs of hope,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">so they may rejoice in faith.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray for evangelists, who share good news in dark places.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">May they be contagious in their love, spreading peace wherever they go.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We pray for your beautiful creation,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">broken and hurting from depletion of resources and impacts of greed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Heal your oceans and countries, by the breath of your Spirit, we pray.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 7.1pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Amen</span></span></p></div>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-73626214003125609762023-06-01T14:05:00.007+10:002023-06-01T14:05:59.680+10:00In the context of Mission<p> Meditation in the Context of Mission [3 voices]</p><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 1 They walk past me.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 50.2pt; text-indent: 21.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">They avoid me. Stepping around me, averting their eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 50.2pt; text-indent: 21.8pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I am the invisible poor and lonely and unloved.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; text-indent: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 2 They do not respond.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I call out, asking for just a meal or even an acknowledgement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> They listen to their pods, blocking out my hopelessness.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Voice 3 My voice is weak. My words are disjointed.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> I long for the chorus of encouragement and comfort.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> I long for the songs of lament I cannot even sing.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ACT OF CONFESSION<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We place our hands over our eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgive our blindness to the needs of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We place our hands over our ears.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgive our deafness to the voices of the oppressed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">We place our hands over our mouths.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgive our silence in the face of suffering. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Holy God, you see our faults and failings,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Forgive us we pray. Restore us, so we may rise to life to serve you all our days.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ASSURANCE OF PARDON<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The Apostle Paul said, “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.” [Romans 8:1-2]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">People of God, you are forgiven! Thanks be to God!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><h3><br /></h3>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-72468239473849460492023-06-01T14:05:00.001+10:002023-06-01T14:05:14.394+10:00Mission Sunday<h3 style="text-align: left;"> Introduction to Mission Sunday</h3><h3><div><div style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">It is right that we give thanks to
God for our personal salvation and also for what God is doing in the world. Mission Sunday is an opportunity for us to pray for the world God loves. God’s love
gave us all the gift of Jesus Christ and God’s love continues to give the gift
of all those who follow Christ to serve in Christ’s mission.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Take a moment to give thanks - not
just for yourselves, but for the miracles God works every day through the hands
and feet of Partner Churches around the world.</span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><h3 style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Call to Worship on Mission Sunday</span></h3>
</div><div><div style="line-height: 21.528px; margin-left: 36pt;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Come, People of God, why have you
come together today?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We come, seeking the Way of Jesus
Christ!<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jesus Christ calls you to follow
Him, to find the Way for a flourishing life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet, the Way is not easy. We
stumble and fall.<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">So, get up and come together,
encouraging one another on the journey,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-left: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">Let us sing with people from around
the world...</span></span></span></p></div></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></div></h3>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-15788937853258342222023-06-01T13:48:00.002+10:002023-06-01T13:48:22.283+10:00Hymn - Undivided<p> <b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">UNDIVIDED</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">(Tune: Cwm Rhondda OR Regent’s Square)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">© Amelia Kok-Butler, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 12.0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Down
they fall - no walls divide us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Love
must now replace all hate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Teach
us wisdom to revive us<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Give
us hands to re-create<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">God
of all, our hearts adore you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Open
wide your heaven’s gate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Break
the chains of past oppression<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Let
us claim our liberty<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Cast
out greed and self-obsession<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Sharing
life o’er land and sea<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">God
of all, our voices praise you<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Worship
now the One-in-Three<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Take
the hand of friend and neighbour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Share
a meal and pass the plate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Do
the work to share God’s favour<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Learn
God’s ways and stimulate<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Flourish
then in life abundant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Heaven’s
foretaste will not wait.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-61513595296442998222023-03-15T16:47:00.005+11:002023-03-15T16:47:46.451+11:00Prayer for Malawi - 14 March 2023<p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">God
of thunder and stillness, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">see
sorrow and pain, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">see
loss of life and despair.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">In
compassion for your beloved children, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">have
mercy on Malawi.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">In
moments of quiet,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">after
the longest of storms, trauma remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">We
pray from across the nations, for the people of Malawi. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">Stir
new creation in their lives. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">In
the closest silences, whisper hope.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">In
the heartbeat of survival, may faith hold strong.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">Have
mercy on them, in both the thunder and the quiet. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #16034e; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;">Amen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-15116089243024644432022-12-09T10:40:00.006+11:002022-12-09T10:40:30.943+11:00Jesus Birthday Carol [Tune: Infant Lowly]<p> <br />On the birthday of the baby</p><p>we all celebrate a life</p><p>Given to the world as Human</p><p>in these days of war and strife.</p><p>May the music and the singing </p><p>words of hope with goodwill bringing</p><p>Christ the Babe brings hope for you!</p><p>Christ the Babe brings hope for you!</p><p><br /></p><p>Dogs are barking, utes are parking</p><p>as the sheep await the call</p><p>with the bleating, floods are sweeping</p><p>over plains as rainbombs fall</p><p>seek rejoicing, free from sorrow</p><p>praises voicing, now and morrow</p><p>Christ the Babe gives life to you!</p><p>Christ the Babe gives life to you!</p><p><br /></p><p>- AKB, December 2022, Parramatta</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-51921859705541732422022-12-01T20:19:00.003+11:002022-12-01T20:31:30.475+11:00A love song, based on Isaiah 62:6-12<p><span style="font-size: large;">Gentle, welcoming path, with delicate blooms to guide my steps,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">the scent of memory and promise, </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">beckoning the foreigner to the embrace of home.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Home - where heart may be healed and whole...</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">How I long for you, my love,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">how I dream of the shared dance of praise, the experience of life,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">the flowing caress of butterfly breath,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">tickling delight and laughter, you and I sought after,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">the hearts no longer deserted, or gated from one another,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">as we drink together in the courts of the sanctuary.</span></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-14366414756342457762022-07-18T10:29:00.002+10:002022-07-18T10:29:18.681+10:00Three-language Communion<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">Invitation to the Table </span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; padding: 0cm;">前来圣餐桌的邀</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">성찬으로의</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">초대</span><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">we welcome all people </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">们欢</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">迎所有人</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">모두를</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">환영합니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">At this shared virtual table, all are invited to share what they bring.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">Please hold up your bread and wine OR your candle<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">as a sign of sharing in this feast of the family of God.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">[people lift their offerings]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">As you place these signs of hope close by, remember those who are unable to join us today.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">Imagine them sitting alongside you. Take a moment to commit their wellbeing to God…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">[A moment of silence]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">Thanksgiving </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">感恩</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">감사</span><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">God be with you </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">愿主与你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">同在</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">하나님이</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">함께</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">하시길</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">and also with you </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">也与你的心灵同在</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">당신과도</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">함께</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">하시길</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">lift up your hearts</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">请举</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;">心向上</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">여러분의 마음을 바치십시요</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">We lift them up to God </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">我</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">全心</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">归</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">向上主</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">우리의 마음을 하나님께 바칩니다</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">Let us give thanks to the Risen Christ <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">讓我們感謝復活的基督</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">부활하시 그리스도께 감 사드립시다</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">It is right to give our thanks and praise<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我們的感謝和讚 美是理所當然的</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">감사와 찬양을 드리는 것이 옳습니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">we give thanks for friends and strangers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">感</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">谢</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">朋友和陌生人</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">친구들과 낯선 이들로 인해 감사를 드립니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">we give thanks for justice, love, peace and freedom<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">感</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">谢</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">公正、</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">关</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">爱</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">、和平和自由</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">정의</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; padding: 0cm;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">사랑</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">평화 그리고 자유로 인해 감사를 드립니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">we give thanks for life that has brought us to this moment in time<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">感</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">谢</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">生命</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">将</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们带</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">到</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">一刻</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; padding: 0cm;">우리를 때 맞춰 지금 이순간으로 이끈 삶으로 인해 감사를 드립니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">we remember the stories from our tradition...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们记</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">得</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">些</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">来</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">自 于我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们传统</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">的故事</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">…. </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">우리의 전통에서 나온 이야기들을 기억합니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">we remember how Jesus had a meal with his disciples<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们记</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">得耶</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">稣</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">是</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">怎</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">样</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">与</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">他的</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Yu Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">门</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">徒</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">一起用餐的</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">예수께서 그의 제자들과</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">어떻게 식사를 하셨는지 기억합니다</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">Jesus broke bread and gave it to them<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">耶</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">稣掰</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">开</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">面包</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">并</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">递给</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">了他</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> <span lang="EN-US">예수께서 </span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">떡을 떼시고 그것을 그들에게 주셨습니다</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">this is my body given for you </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">是我的身体 </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">给</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">予</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">이것은 너희를 위한 나의 몸이다</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">each time you do this, remember me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">每次</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">做</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">件事的</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">时</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">候</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">都要</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">记</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">住我</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">이것을 행할 때마다</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">나를 기억하라</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">Jesus passed a cup of wine to his friends<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">耶</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">稣</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">把酒</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">递给</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">了 他的朋友</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;">예수께서 그의 친구들에게 포도주 잔을 건네셨습니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">this is my love and blood poured out for you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">是我的</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">爱</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">和血液,倒</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">给</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">이것은 너희를 위해 쏟은 나의 사랑이고 보혈이다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">each time you do this, remember me<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">每次</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">做</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">件事的</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">时</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">候</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">都要</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">记</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">住我</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">이것을 행할 때마다</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">나를 기억하라</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">together may we re-imagine the world<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">但愿我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">可以一 起重新</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">构</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">想</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">这</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">个</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">世界</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">함께 세상을 다시 상상하기를 기원합니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">together may we work to make all things new<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">但愿我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">可以 一起努力</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">将</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> 一切都更新</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">함께 일해서 모든 것을 새롭게 할 수 있기를 기원합니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">together may we celebrate possibilities and hope<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">希望我</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">可以一 起</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">赞颂</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">可能性和希望</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">함께 가능성과 희망을 송축하기를 기원합니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">Bread and Wine</span></b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">圣</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;">餐</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm;">떡과 포도주</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">As we hold bread and wine up…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">Holy God of Mystery,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">Provider in strange times,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">Breath of Life,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">Pour your Spirit upon us and these elements of Life.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">And as you say these words together, please encourage one another…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">We break open the story! </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">我們擘</span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">开</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">這故事!</span></b><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">그 이야기를 시작합니다</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">!</span></b><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">We share the promise! </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-US">我們分享這應許!</span> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">그 약속을 나눕니다</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">!</span></b><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">If you are in a household, please serve one another…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">If you are on your own, please come and offer these words to one another…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">The body of Christ keep you in eternal life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">基督的身体使</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">永生</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;">그리스도의 몸이 여러분을 영생에 머물게 합니다</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm;">The love of Christ keep you in eternal life</span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">基督的</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">爱</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">使</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "MS Gothic"; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">你</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Microsoft JhengHei", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">们</span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">永生</span><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #2f2e2e; font-family: "Malgun Gothic", sans-serif; font-size: 8pt; padding: 0cm; text-indent: 36pt;">그리스도의 사랑이 여러분을 영생에 머물게 합니다</span></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-79401880321462151992022-02-14T19:08:00.002+11:002022-02-14T19:08:17.642+11:00Prayer for Healing<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Healing God,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;"><u></u></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">We pray for our friend's daughter.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">We pray for her comfort and for her anxiety as she waits and wonders.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">We pray for your healing work in her body.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">Healing God,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">We pray for those who are attending to our friend's daughter.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">We pray for their insight and wisdom… may their best training and honed instincts kick in and enable them to do their jobs very well today.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">Comforter God,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">We pray for our friend and her family as they wait for news and a plan for treatment. We pray for calm and confidence in you and your presence.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">Holy God - we pray.<u></u><u></u></p></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px 0cm;">Amen</p></div>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-86777487672775639002022-01-18T00:20:00.004+11:002022-01-23T17:41:10.282+11:00Praying in the face of a Tsunami<p><a href="https://youtu.be/J5Rsftz23wc" target="_blank">VIDEO version</a></p><p>The power of the waves crashing is nothing to the sucking into the deep.</p><p>Grey ash, blanketing... everything.</p><p>What happened to the blues and greens of these islands?</p><p>Where did death and destruction spew forth such filth?</p><p>We watch in fear and awe at satellite images and broken messages.</p><p>Hear our cry, O Lord.</p><p>Hear the pleading of our desperate voices and the longings of our hearts.</p><p>Please give us good news.</p><p>Please restore families and friends.</p><p>We ask that resources might make their way quickly to where they are most needed.</p><p>We ask for targeted aid to reach those who can best use it.</p><p>We pray about water and food and medicines.</p><p>We pray for rescuers, medical teams and emergency workers.</p><p>We pray for children and parents and grandparents.</p><p>We pray for widows and orphans.</p><p>In the face of tragedy and disaster, it is hard to make lists, o lord.</p><p>So, we ask your spirit to guide our words and thoughts.</p><p>Stir compassion and imagination, as we seek our best loving response.</p><p>O God, make haste to save communities in shock.</p><p>Enlarge our hearts, so we can respond with you.</p><p>Amen.</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-31211297448729523272022-01-18T00:10:00.002+11:002022-01-18T00:10:21.023+11:00Prayer for children<p> I have often resisted calling you Father,</p><p>Yet tonight I pray you remember you are a Father.</p><p>Remember what it is like to be worried for the vulnerable child.</p><p>Remember how children get when they are sick and simply want care and comfort.</p><p>Remember what it is like to be unwell and alone.</p><p>Please look upon our children and protect them, give them courage and comfort.</p><p>When they are sick, give us wisdom in how best to care for them.</p><p>Lord, Healer, Saviour… have mercy.</p><p>Amen</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-50044783849658091702021-12-22T09:08:00.003+11:002021-12-22T09:08:35.790+11:00A Christmas Letter<p>Dearest</p><p>It has been a year without you. So, let me fill you in.</p><p>The move to Eastwood has been good. The community are supportive and encouraging. There is so much faithfulness and real intelligence and enquiry of mind and heart. There is a willingness to consider different ways. </p><p>Despite the mature age of many of our members, I have only done three funerals this year. one with Parramatta and two with Eastwood. The most recent was yesterday. June was really lovely. She made jams and pickles and relish and was a real behind-the-scenes worker. She joins her late-Arthur. I imagine them together now. Yvonne was also part of the Denistone 'crew'. Her funeral was in an intimate group at church during lockdown, with online extras. Like June, Yvonne was always helping, had great attitude and was a woman of genuine joy and generosity. </p><p>It may seem strange to start a Christmas letter with deaths, but it is all about the 'thin places' isn't it? There is a threshold of earth and heaven. Christ bridges it at Christmas and memory and repeated rites and rituals and stories take us to the threshold. It is a moment when we can remember the closeness.</p><p>There were experiments and highlights around Easter to Pentecost. People were beginning to come back to worship. It was hard with masks and hand sanitisers and chairs separated. <br />Thankfully, we didn't have pews. There were complexities of cameras and zooms, videos and feedback. The most common sayings were: "you are on mute" and "I don't know if this is going to work". Nevertheless, you would be proud of my technological accomplishments.</p><p>I still haven't worked out how to turn the TV on and off, so I unplug it. Great workaround!</p><p>I have two large 27" screens now. One of them does have a large round crack, frowning at me from one corner, but I just position the app windows so it looks more like a decoration and it doesn't bother me. The thing that never seems quite right is managing the sound when I am using multiple programs, microphones and speakers with my headset. It is like I don't have the right ears?</p><p>Nevertheless, I am the queen of zoom and have been teaching myself web-mistressing and e-camm. I record and edit videos and do subtitling in multiple languages. My head gets full and I meditate by playing a game on the iPad.</p><p>I now own a bunch of microphones and a portable speaker, so we can be outdoors for worship... let me explain why... </p><p>From June we started a very long lockdown. I hibernated. It was different from last year. It was serious and extended. Transitioning out has been difficult and anxious. With a new variant and very high cases, I feel the weight of responsibility for a vulnerable community. Isolation became a theme in prayers and planning. TV made a comeback. You would love Ted Lasso!</p><p>Growing plants on the balcony has been quite the thing. I almost never had to order greens in my home deliveries - this is how all shopping is done now - as my crops of lettuce, chard, sorrell, peas, rocket, leeks and tomatoes (I know - they are red) have been feeding me very well. I rarely feel the need to go to a shop. How daily habits have changed.</p><p>Restrictions have only been lifting in the last couple of weeks. While other churches tried to mitigate risks while being inside, Eastwood took the courageous decision to worship outside and online rather than risking indoors until we had the best possible air filtering system in place. So far, we have had four carol services outside and small group live communions. We have three different areas outside that all work well for worship. Little did the architects know how important the outdoor space could be! Since the lockdown, we have only had one service inside. Bron took it... Blue Christmas. She did a lovely job. I cried a bit. The courtyard was a good place to gather afterward.</p><p>The boys have grown. #1 has graduated Primary School. He was Sports Captain in the year with no Carnivals and no team sports. He is excited about High School. I'll be taking them to Canberra to make up for the missed School Excursions. It would have been something you would have been great at - they listened to you about all those life things. they miss you too.</p><p>Before the long lockdown, there was a window in May. I took your remains to Wilpena. A bunch of your close people came. A few had to pull out. We had a short ceremony at Hucks lookout where the healing grasstrees are. It was the right place. Denise said that just as you looked over the land, the land watches over you. Love does not diminish, but it changes without interactions. Other friends do a great deal for my soul's nourishment. One friend accompanies me to breakfast every Friday. Another has long video calls from interstate. My lifeline is the pick up the phone anytime friend. My colleagues are excellent - in every way!</p><p>Lockdown prompted a bit of creativity. I hosted a Gin Joint Murder Mystery online. It was a fine party with an excellent playlist. I will probably do another.</p><p>I keep my mind active with tertiary academic dabbling. I have been asked to do bits of teaching for Northwind Seminary (US) and Neighborhood Seminary (US), Hillsong College (Sydney) and Iona Trinity (Korean College in Sydney). My star student, Rex, has just submitted his doctoral thesis. I do bits of lay education and keynotes for conferences. It has been tricky doing these without access to the library or my office. My online collection is growing. </p><p>The kids are both happy in their jobs and they are both making good life choices. They miss your wisdom and the way you could just fill a space. </p><p>Plans to travel are always being postponed or put on hold. It is likely that international travel will be less affordable when it is possible. Health and wealth are so closely related. Those that can afford vaccines and quarantines and insurances and hospitals have a better chance to live. The health systems have been under more strain than most would realise. They moved the whole oncolcogy unit at Westmead to the private hospital. What a logistic nightmare!</p><p>So - I'll go to the cricket and take the boys to Canberra. After lockdown, it will feel like adventure. :)</p><p>XX</p><p>A</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-72322561431852042532021-12-02T17:08:00.001+11:002021-12-02T17:08:54.326+11:00Joy to the World - Aussie version 2021<p> <span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14pt;">Joy
in the bush, the magpies sing</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">As
earth receives her King<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
Christmas bush grow tall for him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
Christmas bells be rung for him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">And
sky and bushland sing …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Joy
at the beach, Life Saviour’s crown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Revives
and rescues all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
tides and fathoms rise to him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
grains of sand count time for him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
crashing waves bow down …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Joy
in our hearts, God’s love and grace <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Restores
us to new life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
every soul rejoice in him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Let
every language pray to him<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">And
look upon God’s face …<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<!--EndFragment--></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 14.2pt; tab-stops: 14.2pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><o:p> (c) A.Koh-Butler 2021.</o:p></span></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-60274093089314181952021-12-02T16:59:00.004+11:002021-12-02T16:59:32.616+11:00Silent Night - Australian version 2021<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro", sans-serif;">Silent
Night, Holy Night</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Masks
we bring, phones alight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Gospel
stories resound in the air<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Distanced
greetings to show that we care<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Christ,
the Saviour, is born…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Silent
Night, Holy Night<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Flocks
of sheep, dusty sight<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Chirping
<u>ci</u>cadas herald the babe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Picnic
blankets see feasting arrayed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Christ,
the Saviour, is born…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Silent
Night, Holy Night<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Southern
Cross shines so bright<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Seven
sisters lighten the way<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">As
we celebrate Jesus’ birthday<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;">Jesus,
light of the world!…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p>
<!--EndFragment-->(c) A.Koh-Butler 2021. Permission given to use for Christian Worship in the southern Hemisphere.</p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-88018317041081554082021-11-05T01:14:00.006+11:002021-11-06T10:53:27.832+11:00Prayers of the People<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; font-family: arial; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Good and Gracious God,</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Help us to be still in your presence, to quieten and listen.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Still the confusion of ideas and voices that compete for attention.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">May your Spirit settle and dwell with us in this praying.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Our hearts are full of thanks, hope, fear, doubt, longing and faith.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />So praying feels feel chaotic, with words and phrases clamouring around <span>as names and needs comes to mind.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span>Call forth wisdom and teach us to pray.</span><br />Lift our words beyond our distracted minds and disjointed phrases.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Hold us in your heart. Comfort us is pain and sorrow.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Relieve us of stress and fatigue, self-doubt and selfishness.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Relieve us of worries about provision and scarcity.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">These things are easier said than done, God. We need you.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Guide us to treasure things of eternal value and release our reliance on temporary fixes. </span><span style="font-family: arial;">We ask for your help in making life-giving choices. Give us courage to choose well.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">God, our prayers feel flawed because we feel flawed.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />We long to be renewed and repaired. We long for wholeness.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Draw us close.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Fill us with gratitude and allow our hearts to sing and be joyful.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Delight in us and fill us with your joy and wonder...</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(35, 30, 28); color: #231e1c; line-height: 1.375em; margin: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">And we pray, using the words your son taught us.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Saying,</span></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7966005784085921654.post-72726780523189258692021-11-05T00:53:00.004+11:002021-11-05T00:53:54.308+11:00Grand designs… heaven shaping telling<p> <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=EIpKtDMcZ54&feature=share">Link to sermon for Nov 7 2021</a></p>Amelia Koh-Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00445583740261659628noreply@blogger.com0