by Rev. Dr. Peter Lau, ChairThe purpose of the Western Jurisdiction Chinese Caucus is to provide a platform to care for and minister to the English-speaking churches and congregations and the Millennial Generation. Currently, WJCC includes local churches and congregations in California-Nevada Annual Conference and California-Pacific Annual Conference.
We thank God for providing us an opportunity to work with one of our UMC seminaries, United Theological Seminary (UTS) in Ohio. If God is willing, a formal relationship or covenant with UTS will be established by the end of 2015 or the beginning of 2016. The plan is to provide theological education and ministerial training in a UMC setting, so that clergy-seminarians will be able to minister to local churches and congregations in the UMC way, such as connectional and appointive systems, instead of an independent church mindset.
A total of $8,100.00 was raised this year to support a seminarian from China, transferring from Drew School of Theology to Claremont School of Theology in Southern California. A few months ago, South Pasadena United Methodist Chinese Congregation to UTS in Ohio as Student Scholarship donated another $2,000.00 for Chinese seminarians.
We sincerely request a special offering to be taken on NCC Sunday to support the mission and ministries of NCC. We would also like to encourage each local church to make a membership contribution to NCC to sustain our connection. Please make your check payable to NCC, and mail it to our Treasurer, Mr. Auto Ting, 1260 Rapidview Drive, Walnut, CA 91789.