Dr. Andy Chan, a professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at TAMU, and his wife, Sophia, have been members of Grace for decades. They began a Mandarin small group Bible Study in their home in 1999 and began Sunday worship services in 2002.
God has blessed the Mandarin Ministry at Grace, which is now in the process of becoming a new church plant. Below are a few highlights of how the Lord is moving and how you can pray for the new church plant, its leaders, and growing community of believers.
100+ attended our Welcome Party in August. Praise the Lord!
Join us in praising the Lord for five new believers in the past fifty days! Here are some details of how the Lord worked to draw each of them to Himself:
- Hui's mom accepted Christ as her personal Savior last month after Sophia shared the gospel with her before her return to China.
- Gang came to College Station to join his wife Xin who is a graduate student at TAMU. They began attending our Bible Study last month and we prayed for them. They both accepted Christ last week!
- Xuhong and her family began to attend the Mandarin service regularly two months ago and she accepted Christ last week, as well.
- Kang is a visiting scholar who came to College Station this summer. Andy invited him to lunch, shared the gospel with him and this weekend he accepted Christ!
- Pray for Yujiao, wife of a visiting scholar and Fei, wife of a graduate student who are studying the Bible with Sophia.
After 10 years of hosting the Friday student Fellowship at our home, we are passing our "baton" to younger faculty members: Dr. Ji, Dr. Li, Dr. Wang and Dr. Zhou. It is exciting to see God raising up new leaders to serve!
We currently average 70-80 attendees at Sunday Worship Service and many new students and visiting scholars are attending. Pray that God's Word will go out with power and conviction as we study Romans this semester. We also have many children who attend and are in need of two Sunday School teachers.
The Lord has led us to plant a church, called Grace Bible Mandarin Church, which will continue to meet in the Anderson Youth Gym. Three faculty/staff are going through the Grace Elder leader/servant training with Grace Elder Emeritus Dennis Fisher. Please pray for this training and our search for a full-time pastor.
Praise the Lord for all He has done and will continue to do through Grace Bible Mandarin Church!
