In March 2025, I traveled to Honduras with the Global Medical Missions Alliance (GMMA), an organization at the University of Georgia. This trip was unusual because it took place in the jungle. Each day, we relocated between different mission compounds and set up clinics at local churches or public gathering areas.
我的弟兄就要远走
我心里充满忧愁
离开的是你的左脚
还是我的右手
我的弟兄就要远走
你心里一定也很忧愁
留下的是我的心痛
还是你的伤口
三个月前，六位身处不同人生阶段的教会姐妹（我们的孩子从小学低年级到大学毕业，刚刚开始工作的都有），因着对育儿的共同关注与对基督真理的渴慕，相约踏上了Timothy Smith 著《乖小孩，大危机》The Danger of Raising Nice Kids的共读之旅。
弟兄姐妹好，我是梨子，今天有幸分享几个小故事。我家在2016年搬到亚特兰大，那个时候我女儿Sabrina 11岁，在加州当地游泳队很得教练青睐，拿奖无数；一到乔治亚，各种不适应。她正值青春期开始，叛逆，熬夜；社交、学习都出现问题，连最喜欢的游泳也放弃了。紧接着老二Max被诊断出自闭症，2016那年他正值七岁，上二年级，和同龄人之间的差距逐渐拉大，而我们处于完全懵圈状态，夫妻之间也因为种种烦心事吵吵闹闹。
Growing up, we had a small yard with a couple of grapevines. Every winter, my grandpa would trim away most of the branches, leaving only a few main vines. The more he pruned, the richer the harvest the following year.
For most of our lives, the two of us would have been considered lost sheep, but we didn’t know it. Then, miraculously, we were found, and gloriously glad about it. But for a good while, we were discomforted because we just couldn’t figure out where the right pasture was.
最近在飛機上看了2025年新版的電影《不可能的任務》（Mission Impossible）。劇中男主角依舊英勇機智，上山下海，克服萬難，完成任務。我從小就曾為同名的電視系列片深深吸引，那時電視台將其翻譯為《虎膽妙算》。我喜歡看劇中隊長挑選隊員、分配任務、精心策劃；隊員們發揮團隊精神，精準地執行命令，最後以智取勝，圓滿完成任務。
Most history books include a chapter called “Prehistory”—the period before written records. Looking back at the first twenty-five years of ACCCN, there was also a kind of “prehistory.” As many know, ACCCN was planted out of ACCC, the mother church. Before ACCCN was officially established, there was already the North District Family Fellowship.
2019年3月，北堂 “蒙恩天艺”戏剧组成立，名字是蓝奕刚（现为母堂牧师）倡议的，因为我们都是蒙恩得救又喜爱艺术的人。作为剧组的负责人，我常常感恩：虽然同工们都是业余的编剧和演员，每次排戏都是临时成立的剧组，但在过去六年里，我们演出了四个短剧和一部微电影，这背后有什么故事呢？
北堂历经了四分之一个世纪，非短暂的岁月，经过了高山也走过了低谷。站在这二十五周年的前沿，值得我们回顾数算神的恩典，且有目标地向着标杆直跑，以免迷失了方向。
