Mosaic Mennonites

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Scott Roth

New Showroom Dedicated to the Glory of God

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On December 7, Ron Bergey, Robert Bergey, and Dale Bergey, owners of Bergey’s Electric (Hatfield, PA), a family-run business, were asked the question, “Do you commit this day to dedicate this showroom for the glory of God on earth as it is in heaven?” All three owners responded, “We do.”

Participants were invited to offer prayers and light electric candles at the dedication service. Photo by Noel Santiago.

“Upon your words of affirmation, in the company of these people, we dedicate Bergey’s Electric Showroom to the glory of God!” was then heard throughout the showroom.

The new showroom, recently opened by Bergey’s Electric, is visibly located along the heavily traveled Route 309 corridor in Hatfield, PA. As a result, new folks are discovering who Bergey’s Electric is. Ron Bergey, CEO and one of the owners, requested that pastors and prayer team members of Mosaic Conference lead the business in a dedication of the showroom.

Standing amidst washers and dryers, freezers and chest freezers, microwaves, wall ovens, cooktops, and other smart appliances, approximately 35 people, including the extended Bergey family, friends, and associates from the community, gathered for the dedication.

Bergey’s Electric invited Mosaic pastors and prayer team members to dedicate their new showroom to God’s glory on December 7. Photo by Noel Santiago.

Bergey’s Electric began in 1936 by founder Willard Bergey, grandfather of Ron, Robert, and Dale. Willard was the neighborhood “go-to” man for electric service needs when he first started the business. Willard was always ready to help families with their electrical needs. As his list of customers grew, he realized that this could be a viable business.

At the dedication, stories were shared about God’s faithfulness over the decades and especially how God’s provision would appear “just-in-time” during difficult economic times.

Pastor Randy Heacock left) and Pastor Scott Roth right) interact with family and friends at the dedication. Photo by Noel Santiago.

Pastor Randy Heacock, of Doylestown (PA) Mennonite Church, offered words of encouragement and challenge, noting that with new visibility will come new opportunities.

The main focal point of the dedication was not the appliances, but a prayer centerpiece that Sandy Landes, Prayer Minister at Doylestown (PA) Mennonite Church, and Jeannette Phillips, Mosaic Conference Intercessor, created together. The climax of the dedication happened around this prayer centerpiece. Those present could offer prayers, symbolized by small electric tea lamps that each person placed at the centerpiece.

The Bergey owners’ symbol was a 1000-watt Metal Halide lamp that was put together as a special piece. This lamp represented their ongoing trust in God for their business as well as their commitment to using their business for God’s glory.

Pastor Scott Roth, of Line Lexington (PA) Mennonite Church, offered the closing, dedicatory prayer. The prayer focused on God’s presence increasingly becoming real to all those who interact with Bergey’s Electric.

The Metal Halide Lamp was lit by the owners of Bergey’s Electric, representing their ongoing trust in God for the business. Photo by Noel Santiago.
Pastor Scott Roth leads in a dedicatory prayer of the new showroom. Photo by Randy Heacock.

ABC or DEF: What is Your Faith Community Prioritizing?

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When someone finds out I am a pastor, the typical response is, “You sure don’t look like one.” The next question is typically, “Where do you pastor?” followed by, “How big is your church?” 

There it is: the grading system of ABCs that we have for our faith communities.   

Attendance 
Buildings
Cash 

Often, the success of a church is based on how many people show up on a Sunday. Then, the buildings are examined. What do they look like? How big are they? What is their acreage? Lastly, is the church financially well off?  

What does it mean to use these markers of a “successful” church?  What were Jesus’ ABCs? 

Attendance was anywhere from 12 to 120 for Jesus. Now he had some major services that grabbed 5000+.  But when we look at it, can we really determine the attendance?  Do we even know the real impact? 

Regarding buildings, well, he was technically homeless. Sooo… there goes that one! If we really look at it, he used public places, people’s homes, and the temples.  Kinda makes you wonder… 

As for cash, we know there was a treasury of some sort.  At times people gave money and donated resources along the way, but we don’t see a lot of discussion about the money flowing from his coffers.  In fact, Jesus and having a budget doesn’t seem to jive at all. 

I by no means am saying meetinghouses are bad, having people engage your faith community is wrong, or that having a budget to transact affairs and assist in advancing the kingdom is misguided.   However, these are not the measurements of what a “successful” kingdom community is. 

Instead, I encourage us to consider DEFs:  

Discipleship
Evangelism
Fellowship 

We hear these DEF words often, but many times they seem so nebulous. What do they really mean? 

Discipleship is the pouring in and pouring out. As we get filled with joy from the Holy Spirit, are we able to pour into and receive from others?  It requires a level of spiritual intimacy that allows our faith walk to intersect with others.  

Evangelism is not an attitude of ensuring people are saved. Instead, it is sharing the Good News of the Gospel.  Are people in our church sharing their faith with those who do not follow Jesus? Does a relationship develop from this sharing? Fellowship is joining others on their faith journey and creating community.   

Evaluating DEFs is not based on numbers, but a cultural measurement. Are DEFs happening in our faith community? 

In Matthew 22, “Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” (NIV)  

The essence of these two commandments is DEF.  When we do these commandments, we will make disciples.  Then, we will need more space for all the people we are engaging in our communities. Then, we will have the funds to building the Kingdom on Earth as it is in Heaven. ABC will happen because of DEF.  This is the marker for a faith community.   

What are you chasing after?  Where are you headed?  What can you do to chase after the DEF and make that the mark?  In the end, we can only control our own actions to stand up to the darkness in this world and be the light to those around us. 

My Journey of Self Discovery

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Ever have a pain in your body and you try to figure it out?  You move your leg around to figure out the source.  You stretch and you research your pain. Later you talk to the doctor, and it gets diagnosed. You are told what to do and what to watch out for. As we get older, there are more prescriptions for self examination.  We are to poke and prod ourselves from time to time and make sure we are well.  Get the blood pressure checked and other things: daily practices to keep us alive and thriving with our body.

It amazes me how many, myself included, do not do this when it comes to our spiritual and mental health.  During these times of COVID, I have seen more and more talk about mental and spiritual health.  Lamentations 3:40 tells us, “Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord” (NIV).  I love this!  (Lamentations, for the record, can be so deep and inclusive of so many things, I highly recommend the book to study during these odd times in life.)  

Ok, back to this self examination of the soul and mind … I have learned over the past two years, through a mental breakdown, that it is very important for self examination and perspective.

Many times we view the world as it revolves around us. Try this exercise. Look forward and turn your body around.  You will see how the world revolves around you!  In order for us to self examine ourselves, we need to take a moment and move the camera angle outwardly and look at ourselves from an outside view.

This can be done in a couple ways.  One is to just sit and pause.  Take a moment to write or speak how you are feeling.  For instance, at the time of this writing, my morning has not gone as I had hoped.  I am having to be very flexible and focused on tasks at hand.  My stress is rising. I am going to need some space to breathe later today and get back to a solid state of mind.  I can tell you this because I have learned how to self examine.

Taking a pulse of how I am… looking at what makes me stressed or not stressed… how do I release all this?  Self awareness is something I am learning more and more.  Being vulnerable with others in how I feel and where I am at with life has been crucial in all this.  

Book Cover from InterVarsity Press

“Risking vulnerability and love is what takes courage.”

― from The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery by Cron & Stabile

Author Ian Morgan Cron has really inspired me on this journey.  This quote has been a heartbeat for me.  I am constantly being vulnerable with those around me so that they too can be loved the way I would want to be loved.  

Today I am imploring you to take some time and sit.  Sit with yourself and just breathe.  Realize you exist and you are alive.  God created you so beautifully.  Do we not owe it to ourselves to tend to our soul and mind?  

I do not have all the space to tell you all the tools and tricks, but try reading Lamentations or The Road Back to You.  Of course you can also talk to me too.  I am on this journey of self discovery.  It has been fascinating to understand how God made me and how he gave me the tools to live an amazing life with HIM!

How a Problem’s Solution Became a Bike Shop

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It was a simple problem without a simple solution. How do we train students to work when businesses do not hire them? 

Scott Roth, then director of the Upper Perk Community Life Center (UPCLC), mentored seniors from Upper Perkiomen High School in Pennsburg, PA. Roth would teach them how to swing a hammer, update a website, make phone calls, and order supplies from a vendor. Roth learned these “simple skills” while working in his family’s business early on. But most students wouldn’t have these experiences on their own. 

Bike & Sol Director, Scott Roth (left), works with 2 youth in the bike shop. Photo provided by Scott Roth.

Meanwhile, a $22 million YMCA was opening in the Upper Perkiomen school district. Roth began working as a consultant for the YMCA helping shape their youth programs while still working with UPCLC. Roth began to promote the idea of an “earn-A-bike program”: teach kids to work and they can earn a bike, fixed with their own hands. Roth just needed a bike mechanic, so he prayed and kept asking. 

An acquaintance of Roth’s, Dick Fox, felt called to be that mechanic and the program began. After a couple months in the garage of the UPCLC, with 15 kids in the program and more bicycles coming in for repairs, the demand for parts was exceeding the donated bicycles in need of repair. 

JBI, the largest bicycle parts distributor in the US, partnered with the program. However, the program needed to be in a traditional brick and mortar shop. Soon a banner was hung on the garage with the name, “Bike & Sol.” 

Director Scott Roth on the sales floor of Bike & Sol. Photo provided by Scott Roth.

Eventually, UPCLC programs diminished as YMCA programming increased. Bike & Sol became a student work program through the YMCA.  Weekly, ten students came to the shop to volunteer. When UPCLC closed, the entire building was now Bike & Sol. 

Five years later, Bike & Sol merged programs under the umbrella of ViaShalom, a ministry dedicated to creating missional experiments. Bike & Sol has serviced over 1500 bikes and touched many more lives. 

With the COVID pandemic, bicycling has become more popular than ever. This has forced Bike & Sol to become more than a student work program. Now it is a bicycle shop that happens to have a student program. More than ten adults regularly volunteer at the shop. Due to COVID, school programs are temporarily halted, however, there are still youth working to complete their court-required community service hours. 

Bike & Sol is now an intergenerational space for young and old to meet and share their love of life. Frequently tales are told of faith and encouragement. 

Youth volunteer and learn skills at Bike & Sol, earning a bike of their own as pay. Photo provided by Scott Roth.

Scott Roth often says, “Most people have learned to ride a bike. Most people smile as they ride and cry when they fall. The good news is that we get to be Jesus to most people since most people have a bike.” Jesus used fish and healing to bless others. Bike & Sol blesses and heals through bicycles. Helping people ride bicycles is one of the best things we can do for mental health and relationship building. 

Today Bike & Sol is a community non-profit bicycle shop that covers all biking needs, from a trash-picked bicycle to a high-end race bike. The volunteers, young and old, are continuing to improve their skills to keep people riding in all kinds of bikes.

The vision for 2021 is simple: Get the Kingdom of God out riding with others. Jesus interacted and loved people in all circumstances. Bike & Sol seeks to love all who come with their bikes. Bikes know no social structures, skin colors, or economic status. They just want a human to pedal them. 

Engaging Our Workplace with Our Love for Jesus

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by Scott Roth, Leadership Minister

There is a gap that happens with people as we transition from our Sunday to our Monday.  Recently I read Discipleship with Monday in Mind, by Skye Jethani and Luke Bobo, which explores faith and vocation and how to make them more of a focus in church ministries.

This topic has stirred me as a pastor and organizational leader. How do we create environments that help us to engage our workplace and our love for Jesus?  

The woman at the well (John 4) is a reminder of Jesus showing up in daily living. We also see this with the calling of the disciples as they are fishing (Matthew 4:18-22). Time and time again we see Jesus engaging people where they are.  

In their book, Jethani and Bobo explain how early church clergy would be on the church property on Sunday. Then, during the week, clergy would head out to the countryside and the villages to engage their people where they lived and worked. Wow!  Now, many churches expect the pastor to be at the church during the week, in the office, being on call and in a waiting posture. What if pastors were out of the church building and engaging the workplace?

Recently I have started this process. I invited Laurie to come to my workplace, not the church office, but to Bike and Sol, the non-profit bicycle shop where I serve as director.  We sat in the shop area as I fixed a bike.  We engaged on a variety of topics involving her life and Jesus.  People would stroll in and out and we would interact with them as well.  It was such an uplifting time.  We got to be the church to a few folks and the Kingdom was present.

Later I visited Scott, one of the owners of Bolton’s Farms, at his workplace. Not only did I get to see Scott in a different environment, but I was able to fly his drone and tour the farm. Through questions and observations, I began to understand what they did and how it operated.  I learned that at Thanksgiving, they provide meals to 5000 feasts!  This was a reality check that one of our church families was affecting 5000 homes every Thanksgiving. What does that mean for me as a pastor?  As a church?  As the Kingdom of God? 

In the book, Discipleship with Monday in Mind, we are reminded that in Genesis humans were built to work and relate. God needed to rest after creating the world. Work is not a curse. It is a part of us to live.

I want to encourage you to engage your faith with your work.  No matter what stage of life we are in, can we engage Jesus where we are?  I am not talking about making a sign for your desk or wearing the latest t-shirt to work. Instead, can we find ways for the relationships that we have in our church to also be those that happen during the week? Are we able to invite our church family to engage our work family?  Do they need to be separate?  

May you find ways this week to see Jesus in your day to day.  May you see God moving throughout your work and vocation.

Bicycles, Fishing, and Bacon – But Mostly Bikes

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by Scott Roth, Leadership Minister

Many of you know I have a passion for bicycles, fishing, and bacon.  These have always been little hobbies of mine and throughout them I have put Jesus at the center.  I know it sounds silly to say bacon and Jesus, but there has been fruitful ministry with bacon over the years.

There is an old phrase that I love, “When life gives you lemons…make bacon.”  Well it seems this phrase has been rewritten during this season of COVID-19 to be, “When life hands you a pandemic…go ride a bicycle!”

There is a bicycle revolution happening right now in the United States.  Bicycle shop sales are up 71% and inventory of new bicycles is scarce.  People are out riding bikes in record numbers!  We have not seen this transportation trend in our culture since the car revolution.

Bicycling ministry has been a passion of mine over the past five years.  As the director of Bike & Sol and a pastor, I have been afforded so many opportunities to enter into people’s lives in deep meaningful ways.  Bicycles can make someone very approachable when riding around. When someone rides a bike, they may be enjoying the natural high that happens when endorphins run through our body, letting us know we are having a good time.

Why do I promote bicycles so much? The answer: Church. If you want a really, really, really easy way to be missional and get to know people in your neighborhood, go ride a bike.  Ride around and say hi to your neighbors.  Find others that want to ride and go connect.  Riding is such a safe and easy way to social distance and get around.

You can ride on trails, roads, or wherever makes sense to ride.  This is a really low hanging fruit way of doing relational ministries.  It’s really simple.  You pedal and talk about your life and ask questions about the people’s lives around you.  How was your week? What was work like? How’s the family?  Listen and engage.  Bicycles create such a neutral ground for us to interact.

What about discipleship ministry?  Just as you can reach out missionally, you can also reach those who are within your own faith community.  Pray for someone that God may be calling you to mentor and disciple and ask them to go for a ride.  Just ride and talk and enjoy the nature around you.  Maybe a peer of yours needs some time with you, or maybe there is someone in your congregation who needs an invitation to ride.

There are so many opportunities that are available right NOW for being Christ-like in a healthy, positive way with a bicycle. But what happens after the pandemic?  We hope that we can keep this momentum going and keep on pedaling with our neighbors and folks in our communities at large.

However you choose to use them, bicycles are an opportunity.  With our bicycles, there are simple ways that we as the church can be relevant and relational in our neighborhoods and our faith communities.  If you have questions or thoughts or want ideas on riding ministries, please contact me directly at scott@bikeandsol.com

Finding Church in our Community

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by Jennifer Svetlik, Salford Congregation

“I love working with churches and helping them to reach the unique potential of who they are,” explains Leadership Minister Scott Roth. “Some churches wish they were more like they used to be, but I encourage them to take time to pray and ask, ‘Where is God calling us now?’”

As a young adult, Scott didn’t intend to become a pastor or conference leader. He graduated from Messiah College with a degree in business information systems and then worked in technology-related jobs. In 2002, some difficult life changes shifted Scott’s life’s direction. “In those challenging times, church felt more like an institution than a mission. It helped me to see how we could do church better,” Scott reflects.

He began attending New Eden Fellowship (Schwenksville. PA)  and eventually began to pastor there. A few years later, after a devastating suicide by a local student, Scott felt moved to do something. “This kid had been in church. Why had this happened?” Scott recalls. “We as a church need to see our community as our church and stop creating walls.”

In 2012, Scott helped to open a community center in partnership with the school district. The center offered after-school programs and community development work. When the town built a bigger community center, Scott helped open Bike and Sol in East Greenville, PA which teaches kids how to fix bicycles and provides a welcoming space for kids who are facing challenges at school or with the law. “Fixing and riding bikes is a freeing way to explore who you are, how you’re made, what God can do with you,” shares Scott.

Scott currently serves as the interim pastor at Line Lexington congregation (PA) and is a Young Life missionary in the Upper Perk Valley. “I have a passion for the whole church, not just Mennonites,” Scott explains.

Scott served as the Conference Minister for Eastern District Conference, beginning in 2017, and joined the staff of the reconciled conference as a Leadership Minister in 2020. Previously he had been a credentialed leader in both Eastern District and Franconia Conferences. In 2015, when Eastern District’s conference minister was retiring, Scott offered to lead a revisioning process for the conference.  As part of the revisioning process, Eastern District began to engage more fully with Franconia. This path eventually led to the reconciliation work between the two conferences.

Scott grew up in Quakertown, PA. His dad was a realtor and his mom was a bus driver; they both knew a lot of people in town. From them, he gained an understanding that “my world is not my church – the center of my world is my community, and the church is part of that community.” This passion has continued to his work as a Leadership Minister. “I am excited to work with churches that really want to be a light in the darkness and that care about their neighbors,” reflects Scott.

He and his wife have two young children and two basset hounds. He loves bacon, board games, video games, building things, fishing, and boating. “Friends call me a cultural design expert,” he says. “I love creating communities, getting people connected to each other to do something.”

Although Scott is known as a people-person in ministry, he has another side to him. “It may surprise people that my favorite time is actually by myself,” shares Scott. “I also enjoy being with another person on a boat, fishing rod in hand, but not talking. I adore sitting in silence with another person.”

Together Once More

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by Sue Conrad Howes, Eastern District Conference (West Swamp congregation), with Emily Ralph Servant, Franconia Conference (Director of Communication)

It was a potentially historic day for two Mennonite conferences that split over 170 years ago. 

Photo by Cindy Angela

On November 2, 2019, delegates from Franconia Mennonite Conference and Eastern District Conference met together at Souderton (PA) Mennonite Church to determine if reconciliation, which seemed unattainable in 1847, would now be possible.

It was hard to imagine that these two groups had been divided at all, as animated conversations and joyful reunions happened throughout the crowded fellowship hall as the delegates arrived. There was even an audible groan when it was announced that the Eastern District Conference delegates needed to move to another gathering room for their morning delegate session.  And so, for the morning, the two groups met separately, with the possibility of reconciliation on the afternoon horizon.

During Eastern District’s morning delegate session, leaders facilitated a discussion over the future and publicly recognized that the vote toward reconciliation was just the beginning of a new journey.  They thanked everyone who had helped to bring them to this point and then led in a time of sharing stories about where delegates were seeing God working in their congregations and ministries. 

Photo by Cindy Angela

Franconia’s morning delegate session included affirming Rose Bender Cook (Whitehall congregation) for a third term and KrisAnne Swartley (Doylestown congregation) for a second term on the Credentials Committee. Chris Nickels (Spring Mount congregation) was affirmed for a third term and Janet Panning (Plains congregation) for a first term on the Ministerial Committee.  Swartley and Panning will serve as committee chairs.  John Goshow (Blooming Glen congregation) and Beny Krisbianto (Nations Worship Center) were thanked for their nine years of service on the Conference Board.

Franconia also welcomed four new Conference Related Ministries: Peace Proclamation Ministries International (out of Plains congregation), Healthy Niños Honduras (birthed out of MAMA Project), Ripple Community Inc (out of Ripple congregation), and Taproot Gap Year (out of Philadelphia Praise Center).  The delegates welcomed a new congregation, Iglesia Menonita Ebenezer (Souderton, PA) and released West Philadelphia Mennonite Fellowship to transfer to Allegheny Conference.

Photo by Cindy Angela

After a meaningful joint worship in the morning, when credentialed leaders of both conferences who had passed away during the past year were remembered and newly credentialed leaders were introduced, anointed, and then commissioned to anoint others, the two conferences joined together for the afternoon session. Joy Sutter, moderator of Mennonite Church USA (Salford congregation), expressed gratitude to the delegates for demonstrating the path of reconciliation. “You are modeling a new and inspiring path for the future. As you move forward…, may you be blessed,” said Sutter.

The three-year process toward reconciliation, led almost exclusively by conference volunteers, was introduced by the Structure and Identity Task Force.  Sherri Brokopp Binder (Ripple congregation) & Rina Rampogu (Plains congregation) explained the process, the changes proposed, and the next steps, if the delegates voted affirmatively for reconciliation.

The task force had done its work, as few delegates posed questions or expressed any sense of hesitation with the proposal. The two conferences divided, for the last time, to discern and vote.

Photo by Cindy Angela

With the delegates reunited after the vote, John Goshow, Franconia Conference moderator, and Jim Musselman, Eastern District moderator (Zion congregation), shared the results of the historic vote: together, the conferences had voted unanimously for reconciliation.

Spontaneous applause and cheers of affirmation from the delegates erupted while leaders from both conferences shared hugs and broad smiles.  Together, the enthusiastic group sang, “Hosanna, Let Jesus be Lifted Up” and “Praise God from Whom” with gusto and gratitude.

Scott Roth (L) and Steve Kriss (R) lead the Conferences into a time of communion. Photo by Cindy Angela

Following the singing, Steve Kriss, Franconia Conference executive minister, and Scott Roth, Eastern District conference minister, spoke.  “I am rarely speechless,” Kriss admitted. “But we are about to do something that could not happen 150 years ago. We are about to sit together and take communion. For some of you, this split divided families, for some of you this split divided congregations. Today we celebrate the ministry of reconciliation that has been and will continue to be our life’s work.”

Roth reminisced about being charged with the ministry of reconciliation as a youth by adult leaders who knew that the reality of such a merger would be through the work of future generations. Roth shared his joy that the dream he had heard about as a youth was now being realized. “Remember,” Roth said; “although the paperwork is not completed, we are one in the Spirit and we are one in Jesus’ blood.”

Jessica Miller (Perkasie congregation). Photo by Cindy Angela

In the front of the fellowship hall, a pile of rocks had sat all morning, without mention. This column was reminiscent of the Old Testament practice of raising an Ebenezer, commemorating God’s help or celebrating memorable events. This rock structure was not to remain, however.  Instead, each church was instructed to take a rock home, paint it, and return with it to next year’s first assembly as a new conference. The rocks will then be formed into a fountain, representing the new conference, flowing with life.

Conference moderators, John Goshow (Franconia) and Jim Musselman (Eastern District) prepare to celebrate the reconciliation! Photo by Cindy Angela

The day’s events closed with a traditional action, which has been spoken by Franconia delegates to conclude their assemblies for more than a hundred years. On this day, however, delegates of both Franconia and Eastern District made the commitment together, as one gathered body:

“We affirm our desire to continue in and witness to the nonresistant and simple faith in Christ, looking for the blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Savior, Jesus Christ.”

“Kami menegaskani keinginan untuk terus ikut dan menjadi saksi kesederhanaan iman dalam Kristus dan menjadi pembawa damai, terus mencari kepada berkat pengharapan serta memperlihatkan kemuliaan dari kebesaran Tuhan dan juru selamat kami, Yesus Kristus.”

“Afirmamos nuestro deseo de seguir testificando con la fe de no resistencia y sencilla en Cristo, mirando a la esperanza bendita y la venida gloriosa de nuestro gran Dios y nuestro Salvador Jesucristo.”

“Chúng tôi xin xác nhận nguyện-vọng của chúng tôi là tiếp tục và làm chứng cho giải pháp ôn-hòa và đức-tin chân thật trong Ðấng Christ, tiềm kiếm sự hy-vọng hạnh phước, và sự vinh quang của Ðức Chúa Trời đại quyền hiện ra và Ðấng Cứu Chuộc của chúng tôi là Ðức Chúa Giê-xu Christ.”

”我們重申我們的意願是繼續以和平及純正信仰去見證基督的生命，懷著美好的盼望，等候我們偉大的神及救主耶穌基督的榮耀顯現。”