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Grateful Chinese believers |
Every month we receive letters from believers in China, thanking East Gates and its supporters for our financial assistance, timely help, Christian resources and heartfelt prayers. Your contributions and gifts are touching every corner of China and allowing our Chinese brothers and sisters to experience God's love, mercy and grace in ways they never have before.
Peace to the co-workers in the Lord at East Gates,
By the Grace of Jesus Christ, God's mercy and the movement of the Holy Spirit, you have showed us your sufficient Love. Many thanks for helping the co-workers of our churches and for giving us assistance in learning foundational truths from the Bible so that we can know clearly the Word of God. We have received the 7 boxes or 70 copies of the New Testament Coded to Strong's Number and 8 boxes of the Daily Word. May the Lord Jesus remember your labors in heaven! May the Lord bless the works that your hands have done forever!
God's Church in Guantun
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East Gates International Ministry:
By the care in the Lord of you all who have given
us the New Testament Coded to Strong's Numbers
to 32 post-graduate students of the National Lianghui
at Nanjing Seminary, we give you thanks and wish God's blessings on your ministry. Many blessings from God to you all.
On behalf of everyone,
Zhang Ke Yun
Jiangsu Province |
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Peace to our brothers and sisters in Christ at East Gates,
Please send my greetings to your co-workers and may they have peace in God! It's an example for us to learn and follow through your hard works and offerings to the Lord! In these many years, all of you have given us great help and it has brought great revival to
our churches as well. The spiritual literature you have provided has had a great affect on my personal quiet time, improving the Christian life of the believers, guiding us in God's way and equipping us with Truth. It has also solved the difficulties of local churches studying the Bible. These books are excellent and like timely rain. God is the God who listens to our prayers because we lack these kind of books that explain the Bible. He has allowed manna to fall on us.
May every single burning heart that loves the Lord heat up our cold hearts. Let us be a spark to burn and light up a small area, to be a river of love to flow through this cold world. Let us take up the only and best medicine (Gospel) which can heal this world and every single spirit. May the wisdom of God, like water, fill every single inch of the Chinese nation. Our brothers and sisters have a single heart to never stop working or meeting for the Lord no matter how hard the circumstances or big the persecution. Let us remember each other by prayer in different places and have a single heart to revive the Gospel. To receive the Second Coming of Christ with a vigilant heart and to accomplish the Temple of God on this earth.
Once again, on behalf of our county, the co-workers from local churches and all the saints would like to give our sincere thanks to our big brothers and sisters in Christ.
Brother Gong
Gansu Province
Dear East Gates Staff,
Thank you for the Grace of our Heavenly Father. I received the school fees you provided for the first year of my eldest daughter to study at the seminary. Also, I received the funds you entrusted Brother Wang to give to us. Thank you, our two Brothers, who have submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit and supplied our needs at this time. It allows us as a family to offer ourselves wholly to God without worries. Because of God's trust in us, we are honored to do the Holy work for the Lord! Amen!
Sister Cao
Heilongjiang Province
Dear East Gates Staff,
Peace in God! We thank God for your loving support in helping us buy a house for us to meet. Now the decoration of the house has been finished. The brothers and sisters in our church show our thankfulness from our hearts. We ask God to bless you all doubly. The faith of our brothers and sisters here have been increased by fruit that you bear because of your good work for the Lord. The weak body in Christ.
Emmanuel,
Brother Yu
Hunan Province
|Dear Respected Co-workers of East Gates,
We have received all the copies of Christian literature you have sent us. We are ready to give part of this precious literature to the students who will be graduating this year and part of the literature to the seminary library. We believe this literature will help the teaching in the seminary and enrich the life of the pastors. The entire seminary staff and students are all key to the strength of the churches in the Northeast three provinces. They are especially thankful to East Gates for its assistance and love in Christ. May God remember you!
Northwest Theological Seminary
Shengyang Theological Seminary
Dear Respected Co-workers of East Gates,
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We appreciated receiving the theological literature that was made possible by your donors. It will really help us and benefit
our future ministries. All of us are
members of the Body of Christ, helping
each other through the efficacy of prayer. What you've done becomes a great motivating power for us to do the Lord's
work more enthusiastically, to shepherd
the flock and preach the Gospel. We
thank you from the bottom of our hearts
and offer our sincere prayers to you all.
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| Sichuan Seminary Staff and Students |
Dear East Gates Staff,
Thank God for His mercy, care and help from the Body of Christ. We could finally finish the construction work of expanding our church in mid-October. During the process, we had to stop because the capital was not sufficient but you reached out your hand of love to help us so that the last part of our construction work could be finished by His grace and your love. May the Spirit of God and His love encourage us to pray for each other, to expand the gospel of Christ more quickly.
Your Body in Christ,
Brother Sun
Jilin Province
Respected Co-workers at East Gates,
A bus accident occurred when our church choir was on our way to attend the dedication of a church. Two died and 24 people were wounded. We were taken care of by your staff member and other brothers and sisters who love in the Lord in this extremely difficult situation. There was no way we could solve it by ourselves. You have been so generous in helping us to solve our difficulty through your prayers, resources, money, labor, visitation and spiritual support.
In his love, you have sacrificed your own interest for the sake of others, helped the needy, relieved the distressed and loved one another as yourself. It has really encouraged the believers of the church. It was important that our broken Spirit in Christ be comforted and it could not be purchased by money. We were richly blessed in the Spirit!
Our church would like to receive the entire assistance given by you with thanksgiving and a praising heart. We ask that God will give rewards to your churches and every single family that gave assistance to us.
Wish Emmanuel,
All the pastors and believers
Yunnan Province
Dear East Gates Staff,
All your letters and books that you sent have been received. We have a small library in our home and we have displayed some of the books, Bibles and other spiritual books. Every morning at four o'clock we have brothers and sisters who come to our house for morning prayer, reading the Scriptures and reading books. The quietness before the Lord in the morning and receiving manna from Him is so precious. Blessed be your body and soul. May your work go well.
With much gratitude,
Sister Huang
Dear East Gates Staff,
Now we have three hundred Christians and eight deacons. We would like also to establish a library. Thank God for his provision. We need some books: reference books on Bible study; how to teach the Bible, etc. May the God of grace and God of power raise more and more courageous believers to firmly keep His truth, so that the church of God will testify to His name. We wish you and your co-workers grace upon grace, strength upon strength and glory upon glory.
Emmanuel,
Brother Zhou
Dear East Gates Staff,
May Jesus give you peace. Our understanding of the Bible is very limited. Although God helps us, we continue to need older Christians (**) correction, teaching and guidance, in order to be right. Ever since we have come in contact with you through letters, we have received a lot of help from you. Your honest prayer before the Lord for us has definitely touched the Lord, so that we have received quite a bit of help. Your writing to us and sending us books have given us a lot of knowledge and encouragement. But we are still babies in the Lord, we need nurturing and helping from God's servants. We hope that you will pray for us so that we may stand firmly in His truth, become mature, do our best for Him. May the God of peace be with you.
In his service,
Brother Yang
Dear East Gates Staff,
We are living in the Great Northern Wilderness of China, thousands of miles away from you, but the love of the Lord has tied us close together. In the past, we never heard of the gospel, and we did not know our Savior Jesus Christ. A lot of young students came to the North, some of them came from Shanghai, and the preached good news to us. Even though the young people have gone back home, the seeds of the gospel have been left for us. In the beginning, we had a shortage of Bibles. Since 1993, you have provided a large number of Bibles, we received them each your without stop. Just in one year we received over 10 thousand copies. Your quick and safe supply of Bibles have truly helped our churches. The gospel is flourishing in this place. There are over 10 counties in the Great Northern Wilderness, and we are working together with one heart to spread he gospel. Even though you don't have the chance to come here, your works are inseparable part of ours. May God bless you for your hard work!
Peace and joy,
Brother Zhang
Letters from China
