Saturday, June 07, 2008

What is the mission?
Is it called mission when talking about God and church?
Is the final goal of mission is to convert other’s religion?
Mission is the sharing of the life
Sharing the idea about life is the gift from God
Sharing the thought about life is creative
Sharing the attitude that life can be changed
Mission is giving
Giving love and concern
Mission is not for establishing the bigger church
Mission is not for getting more and more church members
Mission is standing with people, and showing signs of hope
Joy with them
Sorrow with them
Laughter with them
Crying with them
Is there any policy or method for mission?
Yes, there is an approach
It is love.

Written by Lin Yi-Chuan, a Taiwanese young woman from Pindung, Southern Taiwan when part of a 3-month mission placement in Wythenshawe with St. Mark's United Reformed Church and the Tree of Life Centre as a volunteer. In the photograph Yi-Chuan is the woman on the farthest right. I was recently able to learn more from her about the church and community her and her husband work amongst in Pindung.