To provide pastoral care to believers during the Spring Festival, a Shaanxi church conducted online service every day in the first week of the 2022 Chinese calendar.
After more than one month’s suspension of in-person gatherings due to the worst outbreak of COVID-19 in Xi’an since the pandemic of Wuhan in 2020, Fufeng County Church in Baoji City held a Chinese New Year service on the day of the 2022 Spring Festival, followed by a praising meeting attended by 60 believers virtually.
Every morning from the second to the fifth day of the first lunar month, staff workers of the church took turns being the leader of online Bible study lasting for one hour.
On February 6, the church broadcast a live Sunday service, in which Elder Fan Kexiao preached a sermon titled "Christians Should Seek Holiness", urging believers to pursue holiness in eyes, thought, tongue, and their service, and to live out a holy marriage, life, and faith, citing Hebrews 12:14.
Elder Fan exhorted Christians to seek the Holy Spirit, develop self-discipline and gain blessings and victory relying on God’s word, rather than drifting with the tide.
(The author is a Christian in Shaanxi.)
- Translated by Abigail Wu
