A few days ago, the pastoral team of the Yaodu District Church in Linfen City, Shanxi Province held a meeting to establish a plan for the pastors for 2021.
As this year’s theme is Hold the Truth and be the Disciple of the Lord, the focus of this year’s pastoral care is to guide Christians in establishing a true Biblical faith and follow the Lord’s footsteps, as there are many uncertainties even in the normalization of the pandemic.
Focusing on discipleship training, the church leaders plan to develop training plans on teaching biblical truth, mentoring disciples, leading church ministris, and evangelism.
The theme of the first quarter is reformation and revival. As January emphasizes a faith-centered life in Christ, February will address the Bible-centered life, and March focus on the power of the Holy Spirit.
With fifteen years of experience and service, the youth fellowship stated its vision as "Equip Yourself to Serve the Church and Society."
To strengthen the work of the fellowship, the church staff established coordinators and attendance administrators to care for newcomers and elderly members who attend few gatherings. New co-workers will be found during worship services to train stable and elderly members.
The work of the visitation ministry will also be standardized to unite the praise and worship fellowship group to help promote the youth ministry. A mission group that will be formed of members from the youth fellowship, the praise fellowship, and the electro-acoustic band will occasionally visit church meeting points to promote youth ministry.
Young Christians will be led in focusing on the combination of personal beliefs, service, and learning from the experience of brother churches, with their personal faith followed up. Activities will be conducted to attract young people, including Bible reading meetings, reading exchanges, and playing information films, recorded courses, and sermons on Saturdays from time to time.
The pastoral team will to promote the serialization and lifestyleization of youth shepherding. In 2021, they will try to hold a curriculum-based and theme-based retreat. In the first half of the year, the young believers will be organized to learn and meditate on 1&2 Samuel, and the Book of Genesis. In the second half of the year, they will host retreats on different themes, such as work, marriage, devotions, faith, life, credit and consumption. Pastors will share and the congregation will hold discussions. A tea party is to be held every quarter to discuss difficult problems which the speakers will discuss and solve.
A timely youth ministry seminar will be held to tell the youth fellowship how to carry out its activities. The development direction of the youth ministry and the relationship between young Christians and the Sinicization of Christianity. They will discuss how to shepherd contemporary young Christians, lead them in evangelising and train youth ministry workers in the post-pandemic era. They will keep a file on the seminar which includes theme-based training, group discussions, exchanges and discussions.
On the afternoon of January 16, the Pastoral Team of the Yaodu District CC&TSPM held a meeting to start the research topic on the Sinicization of Christianity. The main content of the subject includes three aspects. One is the "Outline of the Work Plan for Promoting the Sinicization of Christianity in China (2021). The second is to follow the instruction of a research forum on the Sinicization of religion by the United Front Work Department of the District Committee. The third is to cooperate with the annual arrangements of the Provincial and Municipal CC&TSPM on theology thought building.
(The original article is published by Gospel Times.)
-Translated by Abigail Wu
