主在非洲的行动 – 七月份通讯（补充版）

简介本期将交通衣索比亚圣徒为着召会生活成全下一代之工作，以及在衣索比亚和肯亚的书报服事。

在衣索比亚的校园工作

赞美主 在衣索比亚多所校园中，预备了 许多寻求祂的年轻人。在 2019 年 6 月举 办的全国大专特会，有超过两千位年青 人参加；自这次特会之后，藉由社群媒 体我们接触超过三千位高中和大专生。 他们当中有许多人正享受这份职事的丰 富，其中一些每周至少两次来在一起祷 告并追 求主话。 因疫情与政治局势不稳的影响，我们受 了很大的限制，不能轻易探望住在阿迪 斯阿贝巴 (Addis Ababa) 之外的学生。

但主也开了一条出路，使我们得以举办小规模的学生训练。赞 美主 ! 今年 5 月和 6 月举办了两次「认识生命与召会」训练， 分别有 150 位和 200 位学生参与。 7 月也会继续有第三梯次 150 人的训练。 8 月则有另一场为着 500 位来自 25 个城镇的大专、 青职圣徒成全。我们希望有同工能够到现场参与这次的成全训 练，我们也会为那些不能实体参与的同工安排在缐上交通。我 们相信这样的训练能豫备这些青年人，将来能 参加全时间训练。 在阿迪斯阿贝巴，我们稳定举行大专生聚会，学生与服事者相 调在一起，用餐，唱诗，彼此分享对职事的摸着。疫情期间， 一些大专生从其他城镇回到在阿迪斯阿贝巴的家中远距上课。 这些大专生聚集大大供应这些学生们。我们能见证， 主正在成 全这些学生，当他们回到校园的时候，能够成为流通的管道。 感谢主 借着这样的牧养，其中有两位学生目前正参加全时间训练。他们当中有一些也快将毕业，求 主带领更多的毕业生参加全时间训练。

衣索比亚的儿童、青少年工作

在 2007 年，藉由海外圣徒的到访，我们开始关注儿童、青少年工作，并在主日有青少年聚集。但由 于场地的限制和缺乏对服事者的成全，在 2013 年我们暂停了这项服事。 2018 年，一班姊妹们承接 托付，在圣徒家中再次开始了儿童及青少年服事，但又因疫情被迫暂停。当疫情的限制续渐放松，我 们也立即恢复青少年聚会 (12-18 岁 )，一同唱诗、读经、追求书报；青少年们从读经和背经中得着莫 大的帮助。会后，青少年们更是一同相调，享用点心。

疫情期间，因着使用线上会议平台，使青少年们能够与 欧洲、台湾及马来西亚的青少年一同相调：包括2020 年 欧洲青少年特会，及今年与台湾、马来西亚的青少年的 相调会议。阿迪斯阿贝巴约45 位的青少年们，借着与来 自不同地区、国家的青少年们相调，大得鼓励。 在这段期间，我们召聚了在阿迪斯阿贝巴其中一个小区 的姊妹们，帮助她们来在一起祷告交通各项的服事，包 含儿童和青少年服事。我们的负担是在阿迪斯阿贝巴的 四个区都实行这样的祷告和服事交通。姊妹们也有负担，盼望儿童服事能够照顾到所有的年龄层。 最近同工们有负担加强在非洲的儿童和青少年工作。感谢主，弟兄们计画为父母和服事者提供训练， 并刚在6 月19 至20 号就如何培育下一代，为着全非洲有负担的家长和服事者举行了一次特会。请为 在非洲的儿童家长和服事者祷告，求主加强他们，能够合式地培育下一代。

衣索匹亚和肯亚的文字服事

衣索匹亚真理印刷发行(Amana Ethiopia Printing and Publishing PLC)

为了这分职事的传布，衣索匹亚真理印刷出版 机构已开始运作，目前正与水流职事站安排职 事书报之翻译和印刷的版权许可。与此同时， 我们也制作影片，在衣索匹亚和东非介绍这分 职事。 为此，我们成立了三个不同的脸书专页，分享各书报中不同的信息，如：《正常的基督徒生活》、《十 二篮》和《约翰福音生命读经》，帮助浏览的人在每日的生活中认识真理并经历真理。专页上也发布 了45 个英语短片，以及39 个用衣索匹亚的其中两种语言制作的影片。在短时间内，已有六千三百人 追踪，并收到超过两百位来自衣索匹亚各城市的人联系。因着这许多敞开且渴慕真理的人联系我们， 寻求有更多的交通，这迫使我们开始了一个为期三十天的课程 -「神完整的救恩」。最近已经完成了 这些信息的翻译 (阿姆哈拉语），并且正着手这些信息的录音。我们打算使用这些信息和录音作为材 料，餧养这些联系我们的寻求者。

肯亚高峰真理出版有限公司(High Peak Truths Publishers Kenya Limited)

为了在肯亚的福音传扬，弟兄们注册了一间公司 –「肯亚高峰真理出版有限公司」。这公司主要为着 在肯亚接收并分送职事书报作先锋的工作。我们领受托付，要接触失丧的罪人，所以我们计画每个月 分送三千份福音小册子。此外，我们也开始着手将诗歌翻译成史瓦希利语。目前已经完成不同主题中 的九十五首诗歌翻译。我们的目标是在今年底完成两百首诗歌的翻译。我们所翻译完成的诗歌目前仍 在编辑较对的阶段。这些翻译成史瓦希利语的诗歌将在召会聚集中使用，尤其是在乡间，圣徒们聚集 喜欢使用史瓦希利语来交通和唱诗。

参：https://lmafrica.org/images/newsletters/july_2021/LMAfrica_Newsletter_Supplement_July_2021_Simp_Chinese.pdf

主在非洲的行动2021年6月月刊

東非 ——本期将介绍主在衣索比亚、肯亚及乌干达的行动。感谢主，疫情所带来的限制已逐渐解除，使主的行动不受阻碍。

衣索比亚
召会数目：8
召会生活人数：1547
主日聚会人数：547

在衣索比亚的众召会和圣徒都安好。我们现在可以自由的聚集，目前已无宗教聚集的限制。在首都阿迪斯阿贝巴，有四个区有擘饼聚会和申言聚会。祷告聚会则是四个区一同聚集。圣徒们也固定来在一起有事奉交通。

感谢主给我们从身体来的供应。我们很享受主借着一年七次说话的祝福，以及晨兴圣言的信息。自疫情开始，我们便有机会参加一年七次的特会，并透过晨兴圣言更深入地进入这些信息。我们也参加每半年举行一次的特会；在疫情爆发前，每年的四月和十二月都会在衣索比亚举办这样的特会。除了这些特会，主也祝福我们，又举行了另外两次的同工聚会。另外，我们也透过Zoom及实体聚会举办了多个长老及负责弟兄的训练。

赞美主的话扩长起来，在衣索比亚门徒的数目就大为繁增！今年二月，在Jimma的召会被建立起来，在四月，另一处在Hosaena的召会也被建立起来。Jimma位于西南边，而Hosaena则是位于南边，两个城市都有规模很大的大学，并且人口数都超过20万。

阿迪斯阿贝巴全时间训练中心(FTTAA)

自2016年开始，在衣索比亚有圣徒奉献他们自己，开始在阿迪斯阿贝巴一同全时间追求。开始时有30位圣徒参加这追求，一年之后，人数增加到46位。考虑到训练的需要，在基督身体的交通中，2019年正式在阿迪斯阿贝巴建立全时间训练中心(FTTAA)。经过两年荣耀的训练，第一期的学员于今年6月1日毕业了。总共有23位结业学员；两位来自迦纳（Ghana）、一位来自安哥拉（Angola）、一位来自辛巴威（Zimbabwe）和19位来自衣索比亚（Ethiopia）。

肯亚
召会数目：4
召会生活人数：200
主日聚会人数：150

肯亚众召会在所有的地区恢复了实体聚会，包括在以下城市: Nairobi, Kisumu, Matungu和Kakamega。疫情爆发前，圣徒们有负担接触内罗比大学（University of Nairobi）的学生，特别是在Nairobi的圣徒。后来所有的学习机构都接续地关闭，直到最近有部分院校才重新开始授课。我们为校园能够完全恢复开放祷告，这样我们就能够恢复在校园里的工作（不只是在Nairobi还有在其他地区）。

为着主在肯亚几个新的城市和地区的行动赞美祂，包含Nakuru, Naivasha, Kissii, Busia, Lodwar, Machakos, Samburu, Kitale 和Oyugis，这些地区大约共有155位经常聚会的寻求者。6月25日到27日，我们将在这些地区举办三天的寻求者聚会。我们向主祷告，为着最终要兴起明亮的金灯台，豫备关键的器皿。

在这些日子，在肯亚的圣徒都有参加在线上举办的国际训练或特会。在一个新的城市(Lodwar)，即使我们从来没有实体地拜访过当地的寻求者，有五位圣徒却能参加线上的聚集，享受这些丰富的宴席。从他们的申言我们可以看见主正在这个城市行动！基督正在为着祂的行动得着他们。我们可以见证，基督向祂的身体即时的说话，为这些圣徒带来莫大的帮助。

乌干达
召会数目：1
召会生活人数：66
主日聚会人数：40

在疫情爆发前，主实在祝福了在校园的工作。在封城后，一部分的学生们持续以小组的方式在线上或是透过电话聚集。不幸地，我们在校园租用的单位(曾经牧养许多青年人的据点)，因着疫情的限制租约被取消了。请为这些年轻人祷告，盼望他们能在现有的限制中，坚定持续地追求基督。

圣徒们有负担向在乌干达饥饿的寻求者，宣扬真理和推广职事。一箱职事书报已从英国运到坎培拉（Kampala）。我们正在等候海关清关，并正考虑不同的途径分发这些书报。

参：主在非洲的行动六月份月刊 ｜ LMAfrica June 2021 Newsletter

主在非洲的行动2021年5月月刊

南非

召会数目：10

召会生活人数：500

主日聚会人数：350

主在南非的行动

如同2020 年8 月份的月讯中所提，主在南非的行动仍着重在加强在开普敦 (Cape Town)、德班 (Durban) 和约翰尼斯堡 (Johannesburg) 这三处的召会。这三地总人口数约为1 千2 百万。我们相信在这三个城市，每一处召会都该有至少两佰位圣徒正常聚会。以下是关于各处召会的介绍。

开普敦召会

去年在开普敦召会发生了一些变故，不但有新冠肺炎的肆虐，我们还失去了两位亲爱的圣徒。一位年长的姊妹和一位负责弟兄到主那里去了。他们都是在南非过召会生活已有相当年日的圣徒。我们赞美主，在对主的敬畏中，和在圣灵的安慰里，开普敦召会在平安中继续往前。一些弟兄被成全起来，背负召会的担子，并与三位在当地的全时间服事者一同事奉。

开普敦召会约有70 位圣徒，包含儿童和青少年，共分为两个大区。有些圣徒在家中聚集擘饼，而有些透过视像会议在线上聚集。在开普敦附近的小城 Stellenbosch，有几位圣徒稳定地来在一起，并参加在

开普敦的聚会。另外约有11 位圣徒，居住在离开普敦较远的地方，他们也尽所能参加在开普敦的聚会，而开普敦的圣徒也会定期去看望他们。在开普敦大学的学生工作，去年因封城的关系受到极大限制。尽管如此，因着使用线上聚会，服事者和学生反倒一同有分在身体里的交通，参与全国性的学生工作。今年，大部分的学生都需要回到校园上课，

我们也恢复在圣徒家中与学生们有家聚会。几位中干学生开始拿起负担，一同祷告并与全时间服事者配搭，在校园里接触其他学生。感谢主，有一个家从Pretoria 移民过来，住在校园旁边，和我们一同配搭。因着疫情，儿童聚会也都改为线上。儿童们很享受这些聚集，也请他们的朋友一同参加。因着这样的线上聚会，儿童也能参加国际性的圣经营、欧洲的青少年特会，还有每周举行的全国青少年申言聚会。

德班召會

2014 年底，一对夫妇搬到德班，开始接触一些寻求者，介绍这份职事。在2017 年，另外两对夫妇和一位姊妹移居至德班。在2018 年圣徒们开始有擘饼聚会。 2020 年 11 月，另一对夫妇，一位已退休的姊妹和一位学生弟兄搬到了德班。

我们的主日聚会从大约8 位成人和4 个孩子增加到大约13 位成人和 7 个孩子。人数虽少，但我们感谢主为我们预备地方，所有圣徒的居所都在邻近。这有助召会生活变得更丰富，除了召会的聚会 (祷告聚会、主日聚会和一些其他们的交通)，我们也在日常生活中，在彼此的家中享受甜美的召会生活。

我们每周有一次儿童聚集，现在已经渐渐渐成为邻社的儿童聚会，一些圣徒孩子的朋友，甚至他们的家长开始参加我们的聚会，从召会生活中的7 个孩子增加到15-16 个孩子。 5 至7 位年轻的学生和在职圣徒也开始定期聚集，一同交通追求。这青年人的聚会，有助牧养一些新人，包括 FTTP 学员去年年底福音之旅中接触的新人。

世界局势的变动，使一些人更敞开。一些我们一直有接触的人愿意寻求交通，我们也开始了一些读经小组。

约翰尼斯堡召会

约翰尼斯堡召会现在约有70 位圣徒。召会目前最大的负担，是透过建立活力小组，使圣徒之间能建立彼此互相的活力生活。为着帮助圣徒们进入这负担，使圣徒迫切要成为有活力的—活的且有活动的，召会每周一次进入活力排的信息。我们希望圣徒们不仅一同聚会，并且能在日常生活中紧密地联系在一起。借着活力小组，希望圣徒们能结果子并成全新人。

在过去的一年，一些圣徒变得灰心和孤独，我们需要为他们代祷，恢复他们。主耶稣，我们需要有活力小组！

在约翰尼斯堡有两所重要的大学，共有约十万名学生。由于疫情的影响和缺乏工人，目前我们无法在这些校园开展。

召会中大多数圣徒皆是40 岁以下的年轻夫妇。许多个家庭都有幼婴或很小的小孩，一些姊妹也正在怀

孕。召会生活中有13 个小孩，另有3 位也快诞生，他们都在7 岁以下！我们的负担，要定期让他们聚在一起，牧养他们，使他们成为在召会生活中一同成长的同伴。愿这些孩子能有像但以理一样的同伴！

負責弟兄們也加强彼此的聯繫，開始每月至少一次與其他地区的负责弟兄有交通。我们不仅是一地的召会，我们仍是基督的身体（林前12：27）。

代祷

开普敦

  • 释放负责弟兄们的时间，借着祷告和交通，使他们调成为一，能配搭和被建造在一起。
  • 圣徒们不满足于目前对基督的经历，继续在生命中成长，在信仰上被建立。
  • 尽管圣徒们的住处相距遥远，但仍愿意按着神命定之路，过挨家挨户的召会生活，成为活的且有活动的，并相调在一起。

德班

  • 圣徒能调成为一，借着同心合意带进主的祝福。
  • 求主使用并祝福邻社的儿童聚会以及青年聚会，借此结果子并供应召会中的孩子和年轻人。
  • 最后，激励圣徒成为活的且有活动的，使主在这里可以有内在而生机的工作。

约翰尼斯堡

  • 通过活力小组，圣徒能过活力生活，生命长大以致成熟，结果子并牧养人；并恢复后退的圣徒。
  • 建立定期且满有生命的儿童服事，让孩子享受召会生活，从小便开始成为同伴。
  • 负责兄弟要调成一个活力小组，并通过定期相调与其他地方召会在一个身体里往前。

https://www.lmafrica.org/images/newsletters/may_2021/LMAfrica_Newsletter_May_2021_Simp_Chinese.pdf

LMAfrica Supplement Newsletter May 2021

SOUTH AFRICA
No. of localities: 10
No. of saints in church life: 500
No. of saints attending the Table meeting: 350
 
Direction of the Lord’s move in South Africa

As mentioned in the August 2020 newsletter, we in South Africa are still focused on strengthening the Lord’s existing testimony in 3 strategic cities — Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. The population in these three cities combined is estimated at more than 12 million people. We believe that churches in each of these cities should be made up of at least 200 saints meeting regularly. What follows is a brief report from each of these localities.

The church in Cape Town
Last year certain events brought about a number of changes in the church in Cape Town not only due to the pandemic but more so due to the passing away of two dear saints. First, an older sister and then one of the leading brothers went to be with the Lord. Both had been in the church life in South Africa for many decades. We praise the Lord that the church in Cape Town found peace to go on in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit. A few brothers are being raised up to bear responsibility in the church life, to take the lead and to coordinate with the three full-time serving ones.

Approximately 70 saints meet together as the church in Cape Town including children and young people in 2 districts. Some are breaking bread in the homes while others continue to meet on Zoom. There are also a number of saints meeting regularly in the town of Stellenbosch, close to Cape Town, who also join the Cape Town meetings. Furthermore, there are about 11 saints who live further away from Cape Town who try to join the meetings and who are visited regularly by the saints.

In 2020 the student work at the University of Cape Town suffered greatly during the lock-down. Online meetings between the serving ones and students, however, gave us the opportunity to labor together nationally in the Body. In 2021, most students are required to be physically present at the university again and we have started to receive small groups of students into the homes of the saints. A group of core students are emerging to pick up the burden for their campus. With the support of the full-timers, they are endeavoring to pray and work together to reach other students at the university. We are also grateful for the addition of a home near the UCT campus after the recent migration of a couple from Pretoria.

Due to the pandemic, the children’s meetings also changed from physical to virtual meetings. The children have been enjoying these times and have been inviting their friends to join. They were also able to attend via Zoom an international Bible camp, the European Young People’s conference and an ongoing national weekly young people’s prophesying meeting.

The church in Durban

Towards the end of 2014 one couple moved to Durban and began to take the way of the Lord’s recovery, meeting with some seeking ones and contacts. Later in 2017 two other couples and a single sister migrated to Durban which led to the first Lord’s Table meeting in 2018. At the end of November 2020 another couple, one retired sister and one student brother moved to Durban. This has meant that our Lord’s Day meetings have increased from about 8 adults and 4 children to about 13 adults and 7 children. Being small in number, we are grateful that the Lord has sovereignly made a way for all the saints to live very near to one another. There is a lovely day-by-day church life in one another’s homes as well as regular church meetings including various prayer and fellowship times and the Lord’s day meetings.

A weekly children’s meeting has shifted to become more of a neighborhood children’s meeting as a number of the saints’ children’s friends and even some parents have been joining us. These meetings have grown from our own 7 children to 15-16 children. The young working ones/student age have also started meeting to fellowship in a regular way. Between 5 and 7 saints of this age group join regularly and this has provided a way to shepherd some of the new contacts that the trainees from the FTTP met at the end of last year during a gospel trip.

There have been various informal times with warm doors and contacts and small Bible studies starting up. It seems that the world situation has made some contacts more open and seeking of fellowship.

The church in Johannesburg

The church in Johannesburg is currently made up of approximately 70 saints. There is a very strong burden for small groups where the saints are vitally related to each other. With this in view, the church is reading through ministry on the vital groups once a week with the intention to bring the saints into the desperate need to be living and active through the groups. We don’t only want to have meetings, but we desire that the saints be vitally connected and related in their daily living. Through these groups, we are praying for the saints to further bear fruit and perfect new ones. Also, we desire not only that the groups bear fruit but also would pray and recover many of the saints who have become discouraged and isolated during the last year. Lord Jesus, the vital groups!

Although there are two large university campuses in Johannesburg with approximately 100,000 students in total, there is currently no labor on these campuses due to the pandemic and due to a lack of workers.

A large percentage of the church comprises young couples of below forty years of age. Many of these have very young children or are expecting children. We have 13 children in the church, with three new arrivals expected, and all of them are under the age of 7! There is a burden to labor on the children regularly and to endeavor to group them so that they can be companions growing up in the church. May these children grow up to have companions like Daniel had!

 

The leading brothers also desire strongly to be vitally related to each other and to begin practicing blending at least once a month with the leading brothers from other localities. We are not just local churches but we are the body of Christ (1 Cor. 12:27).

For Prayer
Cape Town
  • That the brothers taking the lead will be released to pray, fellowship, and coordinate to be built up and blended together.
  • That the saints would be built up in their faith and grow in life and not be content to remain in their current experience of Christ.
  • That despite living very far apart geographically the saints would endeavor to enter into the God-ordained way through a house-to-house church life by being blended together to be living and active.

Durban

  • The blending of the saints in Durban with one another so that the Lord could bless the oneness and gain the one accord.
  • The Lord to use and bless the neighborhood children’s meeting and also the student age meeting, to gain fruit and to keep the young ones encouraged and growing.
  • Finally, for the Lord to vitalize the saints to make us living and active so that we would give the Lord the way to carry out an intrinsic and organic work according to His leading.

Johannesburg

  • The saints to be made vital through the groups so that we can grow unto maturity, bear fruit, and help others to grow; and to recover the isolated and discouraged saints.
  • The labor on our children to be regular, full of life, and enjoyment to the children; for the children to be companionised from a young age.
  • The leading brothers to be thoroughly blended into a vital group and to blend with other churches through regular visitation.

Source: http://www.lmafrica.org

LMAfrica Newsletter（1）—South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA

 
No. of localities: 10
No. of saints in church life: 500
No. of saints attending the Table meeting: 350
 

As mentioned in the August 2020 newsletter, we in South Africa are still focused on strengthening the Lord’s existing testimony in 3 strategic cities — Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. The population in these three cities combined is estimated at more than 12 million people. We believe that churches in each of these cities should be made up of at least 200 saints meeting regularly. What follows is a brief report from each of these localities.

Approximately 70 saints meet together as the church in Cape Town including children and young people in 2 districts. Some are breaking bread in the homes while others continue to meet on Zoom. There are also a number of saints meeting regularly in the town of Stellenbosch, close to Cape Town, who also join the Cape Town meetings. Furthermore, there are about 11 saints who live further away from Cape Town who try to join the meetings and who are visited regularly by the saints

In 2020 the student work at the University of Cape Town suffered greatly during the lock-down. Online meetings between the serving ones and students, however, gave us the opportunity to labor together nationally in the Body. In 2021, most students are required to be physically present at the university again and we have started to receive small groups of students into the homes of the saints. A group of core students are emerging to pick up the burden for their campus. With the support of the full-timers, they are endeavoring to pray and work together to reach other students at the university. We are also grateful for the addition of a home near the UCT campus after the recent migration of a couple from Pretoria.

Due to the pandemic, the children’s meetings also changed from physical to virtual meetings. The children have been enjoying these times and have been inviting their friends to join. They were also able to attend via Zoom an international Bible camp, the European Young People’s conference, and an ongoing national weekly young people’s prophesying meeting.

For Prayer
  • That the brothers taking the lead will be released to pray, fellowship, and coordinate to be built up and blended together.
  • That the saints would be built up in their faith and grow in life and not be content to remain in their current experience of Christ.
  • That despite living very far apart geographically the saints would endeavor to enter into the God-ordained way through a house-to-house church life by being blended together to be living and active.

Ref: LMAfrica Newsletter May 2021.