Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day Equivalent to the Chinese New Year’s Eve as a day for family reunion Most restaurants and shops are closed Contrary to the commercialism of Christmas, it emphasizes more the sweet and joyous gathering of families and friends in the homes A time to thank God for His care and supply Symbolized by a turkey meal

History of Thanksgiving （ 1 ） In the 17 th century, Puritans suffered persecution in England and actively searched for a new environment of religious freedom oversea. From September to November, 1620, 102 pilgrims sailed on a ship called the Mayflower for sixty six days. In December, they arrived at today’s Plymouth, Massachusetts, America.

History of Thanksgiving （ 2 ） Upon arrival, they had to face the severe coldness of their first winter in the New World. As the snow fell, their houses were not yet built, so many sheltered in the ship for the winter. They suffered from the lack of food and an outbreak of diseases including scurvy, pneumonia, and typhus. Only half of them survived.

History of Thanksgiving （ 3 ） On April 15, 1621, the Mayflower voyaged back to England. All the surviving pilgrims chose to stay in the New World. In October, 1621, the pilgrims had their first harvest and held a great feast in Plymouth for three days to thank God and the Indians who helped them survive the winter and taught them hunting, fishing, and farming. In 1623, the Pilgrims held an even greater Thanksgiving feast. As the American civil war was ending, on October 3, 1863, President Lincoln announced the last Thursday of November to be Thanksgiving Day as a national holiday.

The Thanksgiving Story

Across the Ocean America England Faith Freedom Money Education Pleasure Success

Across the Ocean in the 1800s EuropeChina 1807 – First Protestant missionary to China, Robert Morrison, began his work in Guangzhou. He died in 1834 at the age of 52 in Guangzhou.Robert MorrisonGuangzhou

Robert Morrison The first protestant missionary to China, Where after a service of twenty-seven years, cheerfully spent in extending the kingdom of the blessed Redeemer during which period he compiled and published a dictionary of the Chinese language, founded the Anglo Chinese College at Malacca and for several years laboured alone on a Chinese version of The Holy Scriptures, which he was spared to see complete and widely circulated among those for whom it was destined, he sweetly slept in Jesus.

Across the Ocean in the 1800s EuropeChina The Hundred missionaries deployed in one year in China under the China Inland Mission.The Hundred missionariesChina Inland Mission 1900, attacks took place across China in connection with the Boxer Rebellion which targeted Christians and foreigners. 58 adults and 21 children were killed.Boxer Rebellion

Martyred Missionaries in 1900 American Mrs. Alice Young and her husband were killed in Shanxi. Martyred missionary Duncan, Caroline and Jennie Kay

Across the Ocean in the 1800s and 1900s What brought them to China? BibleGospel

Across the Ocean What are you seeking ？ Money ？ Education ？ Pleasure ？ Success ？ China USA

Pleasure cannot satisfy man, Money cannot satisfy man, Education cannot satisfy man, Success cannot satisfy man.

Why ？ Because…… in the deepest part of man, there is a need.

spirit soul body Three parts of man “May your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete.” ---1 Thessalonians 5:23

“Life”, in the original Greek text of the New Testament, is denoted by three words. BIOS PSUCHE ZOE

BIOS ： PSUCHE ： ZOE ： Referring to the life of our physical body; the root of the word for “biology” Referring to the life of our soul; the root of the word for “psychology” Referring to the life of God, the life of the Spirit, the uncreated, eternal, indestructible, incorruptible, unique, and highest life.

spirit soul body ClothingFood HousingTransportation Knowledge Love Amusement All our problems come from the emptiness in our spirit The Human life — the Needs of the body, soul, and spirit

God’s Economy GOD

How can God come into man?

Incarnation Jesus Crucifixion MAN Resurrection Human Living Life-giving Spirit death Ascension

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What Should You Do To receive God as your satisfaction?

How to receive the life of God — the Lord Jesus? Calling, Praying O Lord Jesus! Lord Jesus! I turn to You! I need You! I open to you! Please come into my spirit, satisfy me! Make me a satisfied and thankful person. Amen!

“God desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.” ---1 Timothy 2:4 “In regards to this great Book (the Bible), I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book.” ---Abraham Lincoln

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