Bible study in chinese11/6/2022 ![]() ![]() The Chinese Worship Service became bi-lingual with interpretations between Mandarin and Cantonese. With the addition of Cantonese Service in January, 1996, we started to develop the ministry of the Cantonese speaking people in the Bay area. Robert Miller as our Youth Coordinator to minister our second generation. From October 1995 to August 1997, we have Mr. Wallace Mang was called to serve as our pastor from June, 1995. Fung left to California by the end of 1994 Rev. In 1994, we bought the present church building from First Alliance Church of Tampa, and began to own our own church property. By 1992, we were financially independent the regular Sunday attendance was above a hundred and our membership exceeded 60. God was good to us, He gave us more people and the offering received from brothers and sisters in Christ was boosting up. David Fung, from Canada, was called to serve as our pastor. We finally joined the Christian and Missionary Alliance denomination and changed our name to Chinese Christian Alliance Church of Tampa Bay Area(CCACTB), Florida in October, 1989 and we moved to rent the place of First Alliance Church of Tampa for our meetings. The size of the congregation grew, among them were the USF students and their families. ![]() From then on, regular Sunday worship services were held on Sunday afternoons with the help of different pastors. From the 80s, the group started to rent USF as the regular meeting place.īy the grace of God, the group formally registered as Chinese Christian Church of Tampa Bay Area, Florida in the state of Florida in 1982. As the Chinese gradually gathered together, several families felt the need to start a Bible study group, a regular Friday night Bible study group was thus emerged in 1979. There were only a small group of Chinese students at USF. By then, the University of South Florida was only established with a short history of about twenty years. There were not even two thousand Chinese in the whole Tampa Bay area – including Tampa, St. ![]() Situated on the edge of the Gulf of Mexico, Tampa Bay was just a small town in Central Florida in the late 70s. ![]()
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