2008 綠色聖誕
少契台大兒童醫院癌症病房報佳音

住在黑暗中的人

要看到大光；

住在死蔭之地的人

有光要照亮他們

2008-12-20晚上， 大約30位穿相同淺綠T-SHIRT，和平TKS(少年團契)契友，來到台大兒童醫院癌症病房 Xmas，熟悉的聖誕詩歌，平安夜，we wish you a merry christmas，聖誕老公公，五顏六色妝飾，美麗的病房，可愛的癌症兒童，拿圖畫本講故事，送一個小禮物，他們過了一個不一樣的聖誕節

少契輔導外，還有幾個大人陪他們，世娟姐、世光兄、榮德兄、道仁、瑽寧、還有怡慧姐帶語新

六點，兒童醫院地下一樓集合地點，陸陸續續來了不少，穿一樣草綠T-SHIRT的少契契

友，原本冷清的空間，突然充滿生氣，算算居然來了將近30人，第一次出來報佳音，幾乎

全團契出動，難能可貴；吃完長長的壽司晚 餐，接著就再練一下，待會到病房要唱的詩歌，之後上到七樓牧師室放東西，並與牧師作出發前的禱告，契友同心仰望神，場面壯觀，禱告完，戴上口罩，朝目標前進。

搭電梯上到13樓，開始今晚報佳音，一開始，契友站在走廊兩旁，唱幾首詩

歌，唱完就分組，逐一進入病房，直接接觸病人。我們先友善表明來意，徵詢家屬，是否願意接受我們探訪，得到同意後，先唱一、兩首詩歌，再發卡

片、貼紙與禮物，接下來，有準備的契友拿童話故事書，講故事給兒童聽，

有些契友第一次難免緊張，大滴汗小滴汗如雨下。最後如果許可，就一起與病童及家屬禱告。有時會遇到也是基督徒，他們都很高興，這時，禱告就是最大的幫助。有一間單人，裡面住的小孩約5、6歲，呼吸有點急促，很高興聽哥哥姐姐唱詩、講故事，似乎覺得時間太短，考慮她的體力，我們適時離開。

大約八點多，結束報佳音，回到地下一樓，大家按組席地而坐，分享檢討

輔導很好的安排，很美的畫面。

最後，大家合照，留下完美句點。

感想與檢討供參考
1. 少契契友第一次到醫院報佳音，連我也狀況不明，雖然有台大人榮德兄與道仁事先安，輔導牧恩也與這邊牧師討論，還是有許多未知數，能有如此表現，已很不簡單。
2. 耶穌說，「健康的人用不著醫生，有病的人才用的著。我來的目的不是召好人，而是要召壞人悔改」，按邏輯推理，基督徒都是有病的人，壞人，亦即失敗的人，祂關心並為們這些人死，我們當遵行祂的命令，學祂的樣式，關心此時生活在黑暗中的人，如此生活來愛祂；這次報佳音是很好的教育，讓少年基督徒學耶穌關心弱勢、無助、傷心、難過的人，信仰生活化。
3. 事後參加世娟姐的醫院事工討論會，得到一個很好的IDEA，用長汽球綁成各種動物，是很受歡迎的破冰禮物。
4. 講故事還是可行，不過事先演練以及故事書挑選要加強，每個故事最好不超過五分鐘。
5. 聖誕詩歌最好CLIENT-ORIENTATED，選通俗大家都會唱的，病人及家屬馬上就可以加入唱；獻詩練習不夠，如果在病房能讓人聽到彷如天籟的詩歌，效果一定很好。
6. 希望明年繼續。

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AFTER THE ROLL OF THUNDER

Never has there been so decisive & fidgeting a weekend like this before for her,
Reverend Lian Yan-yan, our former pastor & long-lasting old friend.

The pathological examination of excised solitary tumor, about 8 x 10 cm in diameter, is supposed to reveal some preliminary result on next Monday, 12-22.
Benign or malignant?
It hugely influences her who has a 19-year-old only boy with some problem worrying his mother.

The patient choosed to face it alone quietly. We can choose to surround her with overwhelming prayer wherever we are in this weekend. But this is just a beginning. This event, the tumor thing, reminds us our tapering concern & attention about her. Let our care continue beyond the day of release of pathology report.

In 12-10 a cell phone call stunned me. Samuel Chen told me Rev. Lian had been found to have a big tumor in pancreatic tail from some health check-up. It’s just a vague message. As a physician I was driven to get more detailed & specific information, such as her symptoms & signs, diagnostic evidence, kind of examination, accurate location & etc. Given that the most probable examination to confirm a tumor is CT which is better done during hospitalization, the next day I managed to make sure that she was hospitalized in Zhu-wei branch of MMH. That morning I called Dr. Liu Jian-liang (劉建良), who is also an elder, of MMH to ask him if he would like to operate for a good friend of mine. After having heard the name I mentioned he told me he just saw Rev. Lian with her CT images in his OPD in MMH that morning & had arranged the admission into MMH on next Tuesday & operation on Wednesday.

That noon I saw her in ward room, after 1-hour-driving from Ban-qiao to Zhu-wei. Here is the story. She felt epigastric discomfort in July & visited Dr. Right-heart twice with little improvement after taking some oral meds. No abdominal sonography was done. Being very busy she paid little attention to it until this month when she finally visited another GI specialist at Zhu-wei branch of MMH. The latter doctor was more alert so as to promptly arrange an abdominal sonography which surprisingly revealed a huge multicystic lesion near pancreatic tail. That shocked everyone.

Rev. Lian, vexed to have same fate as her husband, Guo-jun, said she didn’t fear death, but did worry to leave her son behind alone. We went to nursery station to see her medical chart. The abdominal sonography photos revealed a multicystic tumor in upper abdomen. The abdominal CT report describes a cystic tumor with size of about 8 x 10 cm, located in upper abdomen, there is margin seen between it & pancreatic tail. The double-contrast LGI series reveal normal colons. But the CEA & CA-199 of fluid got from sono-guided aspiration were high in spite of normal serum CEA & CA-199. So, It seemed there still had no strong evidence to support that the tumor originated from pancreatic tail. It could be a solitary tumor of unknown origin, malignancy could not be ruled out. I discussed with her the indication for abdominal MRI to solve this dilemma.

That afternoon, after having come back to my clinic, I called Dr. Liu again to discuss if MRI was needed. His opinion was that MRI didn’t worth it. The Friday morning I talked with Rev. Lian on the phone. She mentioned the help from colleagues to seek second opinion from a redhot pancreatic surgery specialist in NTUH. But his available OPD visit was on next Wednesday, the arranged operation day. A dilemma again. Finally we got the conclusion: whether benign or malignant, the tumor must be excised; where did the tumor come from only could be answered after the abdomen was opened. She was determined to follow the existent schedule, which afterwards revealing to be a tough, faithful & wise decision .

On Sunday (12-21) I presided at second service in Taiwanese. About Rev. Lian’s condition I said the origin of her tumor might be from pancrease or colon or even some unknown organ & there was still possibility of being benign. In prayer meeting at Thursday (12-25) night Pastor Tsai said my prayer had brought forth change for Rev. Lian’s tumor. Here is my response. I have not changed anything big. I just did do my homework to study thoroughly the data of this case with mind & got these conclusions which made me see more clearly & optimistically.

This Tuesday somehow I knew for sure she had been hospitalized to MMH, so continued to prayed for her & awaited the outcome of operation. On Thursday noon I went to MMH to check her out. She could get up from the bed & sat on chair with an expression of some degree of relief & even a little bit of smile. This was the second day after a major operation.

Let’s wait with her in prayer.

P.S.
During the opearation, which made a long longitudinal incision at mid-abdomen, a solitary tumor of about the size of 8 x 10 cm with 2 tiny nodules attached at its lower pole was removed with dissection of the adhesion with surounding organs. The subsequent pathological report revealed all mucinous cystoadenocarcinoma. The origin of the cancer is still unknown.

Now she's facing the more difficult decision. Whether to take chemotherapty according to her oncologist's suggestion or not. She is seeking more information by visiting more gurus in this field to pray & consider for it.

我 的 聖 誕 節 在 1231
跨 年 禱 告 會

長大後就很少過聖誕節了

不寄聖誕卡，不放聖誕歌CD，不佈置聖誕樹，不參加教會聖誕晚會，沒邀朋友來教會過聖誕，聖誕聯合禮拜的加長獻詩，聽完就忘，聖誕 糕從來不拿

今天卻有一重大發現，過去八年， 每年我還是有過聖誕節，只不過是在12月31日晚上；跨年禱告會，就是我的聖誕夜。明年為何不再這樣過呢? 而且努力過得更有意義。

我們教會，過去算是一個老大、因循苟且的教會，優良教會傳統也屈指可數，除了會眾教育水準較高、音樂人才較多、台語禮拜聖詩吟唱悠揚宏亮，少年團契每週在禮拜六晚上聚會，青年每年的福音隊外等。不過，進入21世紀後，算是有了一個優良傳統。

用禱告來跨年

跨年禱告會的溫度多少? 15度。很奇怪，幾乎每一年跨年禱告會都會有寒流來襲，凌晨結束出來，都是全身抖擻。往好的方面想，吃起會後宵夜，格外溫暖。

就這樣，和平教會一群人，約略80人(非官方數字)，不在狹長的時代廣場，不在火樹銀花的101下，置身1949的老教堂中，與神

跨年





10點整，由李晶晶牧師的破冰遊戲開始，沿襲去年的找組友遊戲，這次由一句話「2008不住感謝不停讚美」及「2009擴張帳幕」取代身體器官，果然立刻帶來高潮，人人都怕落單成棄兒，連忙找組員，湊成一組的人當然樂不可支：









那一剎那，人與人的藩籬變透明了。

再來是敬拜讚美，三首詩歌都很陌生，預料之中，完全無槓龜，又沒有簡譜，氣氛又冷了下來，很可惜，為什麼不選一、兩首大家都很熟的？像AMAZING GRACE 雖很通俗，還是百唱不厭，至今仍十分感人。第三部份是牧師講道，政令宣導，年終複習，溫故知新。接下來的禱告重頭戲，曾牧師準備得很充分，投影很豐富，大家井井有條為世界、國家、教會同心禱告。時間也控制很好，來得及在12點倒數計時，大家互道新年平安







到此，大家都準備打道回府了，曾牧師連忙提醒，最後還要分組彼此代禱，分享去年感恩一事、今年代禱一件，許多人都能把心中難處分享出來，教會開始不一樣了。








最後的。停在教育館，宵夜、分享。互道晚安。




COMMENTS:成長空間
敬拜讚美詩歌，旋律可以再平易近人，歌詞可以再立體深入，吟唱貫穿全場，領人更近神前
禱告雖面面俱到，卻無高潮，聚焦不夠，可以特別為1-3件事情，集中火力，迫切禱告
分組人數過多，大家身心俱疲，歸心似箭，無足夠時間，確實彼此輪流代禱

希望，我們有一個許多人歡喜參加的禱告會。
2009 燒招逗陣來1949跨年

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越過凌晨的一日遊

泛夫婦團契元旦出遊

寒流的清晨，八點。大家怎麼起得來? 這麼早的休假日，兩輛車已集合在教會，加我共三輛車，let's go! 第一站，坪林品茶，一大早就去喝茶?沒錯，銘益安排的。

下了坪林交流道，到茶葉博物館前的停車場，出了車門，全身抖擻起來，還真冷，頗有冬天的味道，可能是坪林地形的關係吧。不是來這參觀，是與璇慧會合，第四輛車，她真是活絡經濟高手，為了殺價，買茶葉蛋竟然買了20個，我們成了受益者，一人一個，道銷，反正早餐來不及吃。

銘益很快帶我們到了老街，找到一家茶行，還好門已開，原來老闆娘是他相識。老闆連忙燒開水，泡茶邀我們品嘗，老闆娘則介紹配茶的零食，連兒子也出來幫忙，雪枝姐請我吃帶來的三明治，靜瑜倒養生茶給我喝，早餐也解決了，下次再出來，不用在家先吃早餐，很溫暖。喝了各種茶，哈哈，就是要買單了，總不能不捧場一下，不過說真的，茶的產地、海拔、品種、季節、製法、有無農藥，問題那麼多種，絕大多數人對茶的好壞、品質\價錢比、有無農藥等難窺其堂奧，到最後，還是只得聽老闆說了就算，以小買為原則，覺得好以後再來買，交易最後就是negotiation，中文叫【殺價】。沒想到信裕兄在我尿遁時，已被四兩/600元成交，我出來正想殺價，剛好老闆娘跑來說，啥米素減一百塊，老闆一聽連忙說，怎麼可以一店兩價，意思是，不肯把兩百元吐出來還信裕兄，他太太只好送一包豆腐乾補償，這對夫婦，還真有點像拿八與亞比該。

從坪林交流道上來，四輛車，直接殺到羅東運動公園，我領隊，靠的是HTC PDA內

建的GPS，加上路標與殘餘印象，竟然輕易找到目的地。璇慧的三個小孩，居然帶了個籃球，真的是來運動的，精神令我們大人慚愧，她們全家與永治兄留在籃球場打籃球，我們則與其他人往進入園內，走過林蔭大道，上到天丘，裡面有個排水池，有點像天池，再往前走，就是池塘與碼頭，這次來，更覺得運動公園的寬廣。十幾個大人、小孩，或 運動、或散步，徜徉在花草、樹木、山丘、水池，涼風襲來， 悠閒自在，值回票價。

下一站往三星鄉吃午餐。還是由GPS帶路，配合路上指示牌，半信半疑，竟被我這個烏龍領隊摸到地方;途中冒出意外驚豔:不少黃油菜花田和波斯菊花田，原來是農民，在冬季休耕的田地種花，一方面招徠觀光客，一方面可用來當春耕之堆肥。還有新娘、新郎來此拍照，我們也不免俗，停下來拍照，算是額外收穫。

中餐在三星青蔥文化館的田媽媽餐廳吃。這裡的菜便宜又好吃，還把地方特產，包括青蔥油餅與卜肉，一網打盡，不用再去別處大排長龍，我們來的早，不但有包廂，吃完出來，看到櫃檯又來了許多觀光客，沒有座位，連菜單竟只有三份，與櫃檯小姐大聲小聲，害我買單很久。看了這景象，使我連連感謝神，來早了一點，沒成了飢腸轆轆，滿腹火大的那一群人。

吃飽了，到長碑湖走走，GPS不管用，憑記憶，還是在三星鄉繞了數圈，途中還目睹，經典卜肉店前大排長龍的壯觀，連旁邊平日顧客小貓兩三隻，的幾家蔥油餅店，也雨露均霑，人潮滾滾。終於給我摸到長碑湖，我們沿湖繞一趟，走到盡頭，看到一

群大學生正要照相，忽然聽到我們中間，年紀最小的兒童許主昌，開口要幫他們照，我們聽了差一點跌倒，為了保證品質，主昌照完，我再把相機拿過來，補照兩張，不過小孩主動助人的精神，值得大人反思。

離開長碑湖，下來的節目是回礁溪泡湯。原來打算到中冠礁溪大飯店，沒想到遊客太多，沒停車位，只好轉到冠翔四季溫泉會館，結果只有璇慧一家人停進去，只好進行PLAN B，先殺到南方澳富美海產店吃晚餐，但雪枝姐家小孩不舒服，先走，剩下兩輛車，剛好一桌，幸好高速公路南下方向順暢。可是吃完飯要回礁溪，高速公路竟然塞車，我們沒即時先在宜蘭交流道下來，堵了三十分鐘，到冠翔已九點多，有鑒於主昌，今天為了泡湯，一大早就把游泳褲穿在身上，很擔心今天玩不到水，為了不讓他失望而歸，鬱卒數日，我們兩車決定，今天無論如何也要把湯泡到，可是到這個時候，停車場竟然還是客滿，害我們還要停到附近路旁去，再帶背袋走五分鐘回飯店，價錢一人250，價位算是便宜的了，湯池開到11點，我們就把握這最後一小時，完成今天未完大事，堅持到底。進去看了設備與湯池，非常滿意，值回所有辛勞奔波，大約有各式各樣湯池五、六個，也有烤箱，還有一個蠻刺激的滑水道，連我也玩了十幾趟，最後還有時下最流行的餵溫泉魚吃腳屑池。

出了飯店，往頭城方向開，十一點多，高速公路竟然還在塞車，當機立斷走北宜，還好沿路暢通，還可飆車，到了坪林，見高速公路上面車子 似乎不多，改道五高，果然一路順暢到台北，過12點，真是漫長充實的一日遊。

堅持到底，解決問題，盡興。