Our biggest Sunday of the year came out of our thinnest fortnight. This is what the day means, what we brought to it, and what God did with it.
我们全年人数最多的主日，出现在我们资源最薄弱的两周。以下是这日的意义、我们所带来的，以及神在其中所成就的。
Scripture does not say that God is like a father. It says every family that has ever existed is named after him. Human fatherhood is the copy; his is the original. So when we honour dads, we are tracing a line back to the one they were made to resemble.
圣经并不是说神「好像」一位父亲，而是说天上地上的各家都是从他得名。人间的父亲是摹本，神才是原型。所以我们尊敬父亲，其实是在追溯那位他们本该反映的主。
Not everyone has a father worth thanking, and not everyone still has one to thank. A day founded on God’s fatherhood can carry all of that: thanksgiving for good fathers, room to grieve absent or wounding ones, and a Father who never fails either kind of child.
不是每个人都有值得感恩的父亲，也不是每个人的父亲仍在世。以神的父性为根基的节日，能承载这一切：为良善的父亲献上感恩，为缺席或伤害过我们的父亲留下哀伤的余地，并让两种人都遇见那位永不失信的天父。
The heart of the good news is not a transaction but an adoption: through Christ, outsiders are called children of God. Father’s Day is one of the few Sundays in the year when the whole community is already thinking about fathers — and on that day we get to introduce them to the Father.
福音的核心不是一宗交易，而是一次收纳：藉着基督，本为局外人的，得称为神的儿女。父亲节是全年少数几个全社区本来就在思想父亲的主日——而我们正好可以在这日，把他们介绍给那位天父。
“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.”
「因此，我在父面前屈膝，天上地上的各家，都是从他得名。」
Ephesians 3:14–15 · 以弗所书 3:14–15
The fortnight before Father’s Day took people out of every part of the service — the front, the desk, the door and the pews.
父亲节前的两周，聚会的每一环节都缺了人手——台前、控制台、门口、会众席，无一幸免。
The three big Sundays of 2026 2026年三个大主日
Attendance at the 9:15am service, both congregations combined. The dashed extension shows where Father’s Day would have landed had the 22 absent regulars been present.
Who made up the 79 这79人由谁组成
Each bar is one congregation, on the same scale, split by how often that person normally comes.
Ten visitors — nine English-speaking, one Chinese-speaking — the most we have welcomed on any Sunday this year.
Twenty-one irregular attenders came, people who normally manage less than one Sunday a month. That number is extraordinary, and it is the number to keep praying over.
Forty-eight regulars still came, 25 English-speaking and 23 Chinese-speaking — strong, though well below a usual Sunday.
十位来宾——英语堂九位、华语堂一位——是今年各主日中最多的一次。
二十一位偶尔出席者前来聚会，他们平常一个月来不到一次。这个数字非比寻常，也是我们要持续为之祷告的。
四十八位恒常会众仍然到齐了大部分：英语堂25位、华语堂23位——虽比平日少，却依然坚稳。
We had the least to work with, and God gave us the most. 我们手上的资源最少，神却赐下最多。
“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
「我的恩典够你用的，因为我的能力是在人的软弱上显得完全。」
2 Corinthians 12:9 · 哥林多后书 12:9
The arithmetic does not explain the day. Fewer leaders, newer operators, a thinner roster and a grieving fortnight should have produced a smaller Sunday, not our largest. What we can say plainly is that the growth was given, not engineered.
The other thing worth naming is the unity. With fewer hands on the roster, more people simply carried one another — covering the door, filling gaps, and making room for guests. That was the most inspiring part of the morning, and it is worth thanking each person for by name.
This is the church we are asking God for every Sunday, not only on the big ones.
单靠数字无法解释这一天。同工更少、视听同工更生、编更更薄，加上刚经历丧礼的两周——照理该是一个人数更少的主日，而不是全年最多的一次。我们能坦白说的是：这增长是神赐下的，不是我们经营出来的。
另一件值得指出的，是那份合一。人手越少，弟兄姊妹越是彼此担当——补上门口、填补空缺、腾出位置招待客人。这是当天早上最令人振奋的一幕，值得逐一向每位服侍的人道谢。
这正是我们每个主日、而不只是大节期，向神所求的教会光景。
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.”
「我栽种了，亚波罗浇灌了，惟有神叫他生长。可见栽种的算不得什么，浇灌的也算不得什么；只在那叫他生长的神。」
1 Corinthians 3:6–7 · 哥林多前书 3:6–7
“Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.”
「万军之耶和华说：不是倚靠势力，不是倚靠才能，乃是倚靠我的灵方能成事。」
Zechariah 4:6 · 撒迦利亚书 4:6