Today, my wife and I attended Church of Grace to Fujianese in Chinatown. The reason we chose this church is because Dr. Stephen Tong is coming to the same church for a Gospel rally tomorrow (and the following 2 days). I simply wanted to \"check out\" what this church is about.<\/p>\n
We went to the English service, pastored by a friendly Indonesian pastor (Rev. Elias). The location of the English service at 9am is at 71 Hester Street, while the main church is at 133 Allen Street. The English service uses a rented school space.<\/p>\n
The congregation is made largely of high school kids, about 50 of them, who in turn lead the much younger children later. I do not know how they lead the children but I'd worry.<\/p>\n
According to the pastor, he was the one who invited Dr. Tong since he seems to have some connection with Dr. Tong's ministry. He mentioned he once taught at Dr. Tong's reformed seminary.<\/p>\n
Update 4\/19\/2024: The \"Rev. Elias\" is actually Eliyah Shira. I've made another entry<\/a> about him before. Looks like he's pastoring at Arlington Chinese Bible Church in Dallas-Fort Worth Texas now<\/a>. Seems o be the kind of pastor who moves around, starting from various cities in Texas, then to New York and now back to TX again. I do not think he's genuine<\/strong>. I paste the bio from his Arlington church in the comment, before he disappears again or something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, my wife and I attended Church of Grace to Fujianese in Chinatown. The reason we chose this church is because Dr. Stephen Tong is coming to the same church for a Gospel rally tomorrow (and the following 2 days). … Continue reading