Candlelight Fellowship

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Candlelight Fellowship (燭光團契) is officially established in 1997 as a Mandarin speaking youth group within the church of EFCDC. The name "Candlelight" is chosen with the intention that every member of the fellowship is a little candle whose light is infinitely supplied by God's glory and Word. Each person of the fellowship is God's eternal tool to bring light to the world of sin and darkness. Although the light of one candle may be weak, God bounds many of us together to shine a greater light upon the church and community. In the year 2000, Candlelight Fellowship is divided into "students" and "young working adults" to better provide the needs of both nonbelievers and believers.

[edit] Fellowship Mission Verse

"Put your trust in the light while you have it, so that you may become sons of light." - John 12:36

[edit] Mission Target

As a fellowship gathered in God's name, the fellowship honor His great commission to make disciples of all nations. Candlelight Fellowship is established as God's missionary to Chinese immigrants and their children when they move to the United States. The fellowship work not only to shed the light of God's Gospel on these immigrants, it also hope to provide advice, resources, and assistance to help them adjust faster to the new environment. As the "students" group, its main target is in reaching the Chinese student population from college, high school, and middle school campuses. The fellowship also serves to be a place where each person grows spiritually with God and each other through the studying of the Holy Bible, the obeying of God's commandments, and the communion with the Holy Spirit and each other. Through serving God, His church, and the community, the fellowship also bears the responsibility of enhancing the world mission view of each of its members.

[edit] Faith Statement

According to the Westminster Shorter Catechism, "God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth."

Candlelight Fellowship believes that:

  • Man, created in a state of holiness under God, fell into the bondage of sin through the temptation of Satan.
  • God has spoken to man, and the Bible is His Word.
  • God is Lord and King over His world; He rules all things for His own glory in order that men and angels may worship Him.
  • God is Savior, active in sovereign love through the Lord Jesus Christ to rescue believers from sin, to adopt them as His children to bless them accordingly.
  • Salvation of sinners is wholly of grace through the atonement of our sins by the Lord Jesus Christ, who by the Holy Spirit was born of the Virgin Mary and took upon him our nature, yet without sin, truly God and truly man.
  • Lord Jesus Christ, who was resurrected from the tomb and ascended into Heaven, will visibly and personally return to this earth in power and glory.
  • God is triune; there are within the Godhead three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit; the work of salvation is one in which all three act together, the Father purposing redemption, the Son securing it and the Spirit applying it.
  • Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word.

Candlelight Fellowship proclaims faith through the Apostle's Creed:

I believe in God, the Father Almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried. He descended into hell. The third day He arose again from the dead. He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. Amen.

  • The word "catholic" refers not to the Roman Catholic Church, but to the universal church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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