Greetings

6/20/2011

Dear friends,


Rev. Mateo Ricci S.J. went to China 400 years ago. He was the first missionary who inculturated local culture into Christianity among Chinese. In the past four centuries, the vision of “local lay evangelist/clergy” has been carried out by many Jesuit missionaries who might be your friends or family members. The collaboration of the local lay evangelist and missionaries truly kindles people’s desire in searching the true peace and joy in their daily life, and eventually join our Catholic family.

In this issue of the newsletter, you will read how our local lay evangelists kindle people’s desires with each of their own special gifts in various communities in Taiwan. You can also find some common approaches that they use to lead toward successful results. Three Chinese Catholic Communities which are located on the west coast of the U.S. have been inspired by Fr. Aldrich’s approaches and promote their local evangelism ministries. All these communities are very pleased to adapt this new approach of the evangelism. This method is not only effective among the Chinese in Taiwan, but also in the U.S.

Our fifth Center was opened at Pingtung, the southernmost county in Taiwan in March. We’ll have 15 evangelists serving at five Evangelism Centers for six dioceses in the next fiscal year. You can find the information and pictures of the programs and evangelist(s) for each Center on our newly created Chinese website at http://www.splendoroflife.org.

Thank you for your prayers and financial support. Because of your partnership with us in the vineyard, branches are growing well and yielding good fruits. Currently six lay evangelists have been adopted through the Evangelist Adoption Program, and many thanks to the Koch Foundation who gave us a second-year grant supporting our Shinchu Evangelist Center. Through your generous support, God has been providing our basic needs. We ask for your continuous financial support and prayers, so we can sustain the growth to meet the needs of local full-time professional lay evangelists.

Jesuit California Province (CPSJ) now has a full-time staff working on Planned Gifts. This program allows benefactors legally turning “the tax for Caesar” into “the gifts for God.” Please contact me for details or check it out at: http://jesuitscalifornia.giftlegacy.com.

God bless!


In Christ,



Yvonne Chow
Local Contact in the U.S.