圣迭戈缅甸裔牧师 Silas Thiang 牧养40名难民：心愿是在缅甸每个没有教会的村庄建立教会
据 Baptist Press 11 月 2 日报道，在加州圣迭戈县圣迭戈市，缅甸裔牧师 Silas Thiang 牧养着约 40 名难民组成的 Agape Myanmar Mission，聚会地点就在他与家人居住的公寓里。他的心愿是：在缅甸每一个尚没有基督徒、也没有教会的村庄建立教会。
Thiang 同时带领圣迭戈当地社区的移民与难民，他所在社区聚居着来自八个以上国家的移民。他希望这些来自不同国家的移民认识福音，也希望在美国培养下一代少数族裔基督徒领袖。自 2016 年复活节首次社区外展以来，Agape Myanmar Mission 每年举办三次社区外展活动，每场平均约有 200 名移民参加；每周他还以身作则训练会众分享信仰、为他人祷告。
他的事工也延伸到海外：每年两次，他前往泰国培训缅甸牧师与植堂者，每期约有 70 名缅甸领袖参加为期四天的培训，随后他再沿泰缅边境走访因战争流离失所者的营地，送去大米与药品。
Thiang 1982 年生于缅甸一个基督徒家庭，高中毕业后赴印度进入浸信会神学院学习，后来在马来西亚为缅甸移工植堂并帮助难民家庭，2014 年应亲属之邀移居圣迭戈，为缅甸难民开办教会。Santee 市 Pathways 教会副牧师 Steve Jussenhoven 表示，该教会自 2022 年起支持 Thiang 的事工，因为看见他对失丧者真诚的负担与对大使命的委身。El Cajon 市 Shadow Mountain Community Church 宣教主任 Mark Dalton 说，他们认识 Thiang 约十年，被他的正直与对自己族群的爱所吸引。
（来源：Baptist Press）
Burmese Pastor Silas Thiang Shepherds 40 Refugees in San Diego: His Vision Is a Church in Every Village in Myanmar Without One
A Burmese pastor in San Diego, San Diego County, California, is shepherding a congregation of about 40 refugees that meets in his own apartment, and his stated vision is to see a church started in every village in Myanmar where there is no Christian believer and no church, Baptist Press reported on November 2. Silas Thiang pastors Agape Myanmar Mission, which meets in the central San Diego apartment he shares with his wife, three sons and his brother.
Thiang also ministers to the immigrants and refugees in his San Diego neighborhood, which is home to people from eight or more nations, and he wants to raise up the next generation of ethnic Christian leaders in America. Since its first community outreach at Easter 2016, Agape Myanmar Mission has held community outreach events three times a year, drawing an average of about 200 immigrants at each event, and Thiang trains church members weekly by example to share their faith and pray for others.
His ministry extends overseas as well. Twice a year he travels to Thailand to train Burmese pastors and church planters, with about 70 Burmese leaders attending each four-day training, and he then ministers for two weeks along the Thai-Myanmar border, bringing rice and medicine to camps for people displaced by war.
Thiang was born in 1982 into a Christian family in Myanmar. After high school he went to India and studied at a Baptist theological seminary, then moved to Malaysia to plant a church among Myanmar migrant workers and help refugee families. He moved to San Diego in 2014 to start a church for Burmese refugees. Steve Jussenhoven, associate pastor of Pathways Church in Santee, said his church has helped support Thiang since about 2022 because of the pastor's genuine burden for the lost and his commitment to the Great Commission. Mark Dalton, missions director at Shadow Mountain Community Church in El Cajon, said they have known Thiang for about 10 years and were drawn to his integrity and his love and care for his people.
(Source: Baptist Press)
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