Chinese Memorial 2010

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Chinese Memorial Worldwide 2010

Canada
Vancouver Mandarin South 204
Vancouver Cantonese South 112
Vancouver Mandarin West 143
Vancouver Chinatown 133
Vancouver Mandarin East 164
Vancouver Mandarin Coquitlam 108
Winnipeg Group 75 (30)
Edmonton Mandarin
Toronto Mandarin Central 106
Toronto Chinese Cantonese 160
Toronto Mandarin East 227
Mississauga Congregation
Guelph & Hamilton
Montreal Chinese
Ottawa Chinese 113
Windsor Ontario Mandarin (G)
Calgary Mandarin
Calgary Chinatown 69
Victoria Chinese 51(23)

Saskatoon Group 64(18)

Africa

Gaborone Botswana (north of South Africa) Chinese Group 84 (9)

Nairobi Kenya Chinese Group 33

US

NY Queens North Chinese 122
NY Queens South Chinese 151
NY Chinatown Chinese (Cantonese): 278
NY Manhattan Mandarin: 241
NY Brooklyn Mandarin: 153
NY Brooklyn Cantonese: 127

Boston Chinese 81

Puerto Rico 40

Ossining, NY 79

Temple City & Monterey Park, California 267

Seattle, WA 123

Portland, OR 85

Hacienda Heights, CA (L.A. East) 195

Hills Chinese Group Hollywood Florida 45

Atlanta, GA – 128
Rockville, MD – 158

Australia
Brisbane Central Chinese 200
Gold Coast Ribina (G)
Sydney - Greenacre Mandarin 200
Sydney - Homebush Cantonese 115
Sydney - Macquarie Park 254
Canberra - Belconnen
Melbourne - Burwood Cantonese 97
Melbourne - Burwood Mandarin 213
SA - Adelaide Central 245
Hobart Chinese 53
WA - Perth Central

Caribbean

Trinidad Tobago 112 (39)

Curacao 47

Central America
San Jose Chinese (G), Costa Rica 31(12)
Panama City Cantonese cong., Panama 84
David, Panama (G) 8(1)

Chiriqui City, Panama - 21 (8 chinese)

South America

Guayaquil, Ecuador - 107

Winnipeg Chinese Group

Nihao dajia, (Hello everyone)

This year we had our mem. talk given in Mandarin and translated into Cantonese. It was a beautiful mild evening here in Winnipeg (believe it or not the snow is long gone and today we were in the mid teens). The group worked very hard on the campaign and was rewarded with a strong attendance given that this years memorial was on a weekday (not good for our many University students). We had a total of 75 in attendance. We have 30 publishers. Long after the English congs were gone many were still in the hall associating. It was a wonderful opportunity to meet new faces, and get reacquainted with some that have stopped studying but still came to the memorial. it was a great evening. Let me know how yours went.

All our love to you all

Tony and Rosa Markham (Winnipeg(

Gaborone Botswana near South Africa

Hello All,

For those of you who don't already know, there are Chinese people in Botswana and alot of them.

(For those of you who already know that please bear with me, as this email is going to alot of people who don't know.)

Since october Kumiko and I have been living and serving in the Southern Africa chinese field.

In january we moved to our new assignment in Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana (just north of South Africa.

There has been a small group here working zealously to get the chinese field and the chinese group up and running for some time now. It seems though that Jehovah has decided, now is the time, the chinese fields here are now fully white for the harvest.

There are 9 publishers in our fledgling group.

Last year they had 35 in attendance at the memorial. This year some of the chinese that are regular meeting attenders were there, but　many didn't show.

Even with that,　we had about　over 50　people that my wife and i　personally invited come and attend, as well as several others.

With a group of 9 pubs,　we had 84 people in attendance. 75 of which were chinese from mainland china.

I　prepared　the　memorial talk in chinese, and　it was very encouraging to see that every single person in the audience　was paying close attention and following in their bibles.

We also　brought 50 books and bibles, about　250 mags, 20 broch's and loads of tracts. And all but maybe 50 mags were gone afterwards. It was a stunning success.

Between Kumiko and i we had set a goal for the group to try　and have 100 people in attendance. I didn't think we were going to　get there, i figured maybe 60　or so. In the end we almost made it.

The hard work of our small group was blessed almost ten fold.

Starting this week we are moving the sunday chinese meeting to it's own time at 6pm.　This　time was　chosen as many of the　calls are working in shops until 5 or so on sunday. So we are hoping that will significantly increase the opportunity for many more　to attend the meeting.

Currently we have usually about 25-35 on sunday.

In a week and a half from now we will have the chinese language course　starting. It seems we have lots coming, around 20 students. So with that alone, even without more from the territory coming to the meeting, our attendance will be up to around 45-55.

Things are happening, hopefully application to become a congregation will be approved by the branch in south africa before too long.

But with so few in the group that can actually use chinese to preach and teach, we need help.

If any are looking for a place to serve where the need is enormous, please seriously and prayerfully consider Africa. And personally i recommend Botswana ;-).

We look forward to seeing how Jehovah will continue to bless the chinese field here in africa in the weeks and months to come.

And we would love to hear reports from you as well, so that we can share with our group here what's happening in the chinese field around the world.

Sean & Kumiko Kruger.

Gaborone Chinese,

C. 00267 76040750

E. Seankruger@hotmail.com

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30 March 2010

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