God declares His Name: My Name is YHWH

 In the Bible, God Himself declares His Name.

God's Name is to be known for all people, yet today Christians are ignorant of God's Name, mainly because the Church does not mention His Name.

Why?

Come and find out in this video:

Today's Crisis: God's Name is largely forgotten in the Church

Today, God's Name is largely forgotten, yet when we look into the Bible, the Name of God, YHWH, occurs 6828 times.  

Why?

What has happened?

Come and find out the unfortuante thing that happened in the process of translation.

NEW! NEW! Sunday Gospel Channel on You-Tube

Our SUNDAY GOSPEL CHANNEL is now officially launched.

Exciting News.  By the grace of God, we are launching a Sunday Gospel Channel on you-tube to proclaim the Name of Yahweh and to preach the Gospel by directing people to the one God Yahweh and Jesus Christ the Messiah.  Remember us in prayer that the Name of God be glorified and that you will also join us to share this channel with your friends, families, and colleagues.  Let us join hands together to make God's Name known to the world that they can come to have salvation through His Son, the Messiah Jesus. 

< Sunday Gospel频道 >  现已正式开通。

这是令人兴奋的消息。 承蒙神的恩典，我们在 YouTube 上推出周日福音频道(Sunday Gospel Channel)，宣扬雅伟的名字，并引导人们信奉唯一的神雅伟和他所膏立的弥赛亚耶稣基督，从而传播福音。 请在祷告中记念我们的事工，愿神之名得着荣耀，愿您也能关注我们，与您的朋友、家人和同事分享这个频道。 让我们一起携手让世界知道神的名字，使他们可以透过神的儿子弥赛亚耶稣领受救恩。

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Neapolis, the Port Town 尼亚波利 (现称 卡瓦拉)

 Neapolis, the ancient port where Paul first came to European soil, is now called Kavala. 

尼亚波利（Neapolis）是保罗首次踏上欧洲土地的古老港口，现称为卡瓦拉（Kavala）。

Byzantine Fortress

At one time in the last century, after the Greco-Turkish war (1919-1922), it ranked as the 4th largest city, due to the large number of refugees. Now it is one of the many smaller cities in Greece, with close to 60,000 residents in the greater municipality area.

It is a small fishing city, underdeveloped, most famous for its tobacco industry, and has an oil producing rake out in the sea. Few tourists come here except Christian tourist groups on their way to ancient Philippi. There is a church of St. Nicholas with large mosaics to commemorate that event. 

由于希腊与土耳其战争（1919-1922）后，大量难民涌入，该市一度成为希腊第四大城市。现在，它是希腊众多小城市之一，整个市区内拥有近 60,000 名居民。

这是一个不发达的渔港，以烟草业和近海石油开采点而闻名。除了前往古代腓立比的基督徒旅游之外，鲜有游客来到这里。有一座圣尼古拉斯教堂，上面有纪念保罗到此地的大型马赛克。

Church of St Nicholas

Mosaic commemorating Paul's landing

It is 160 km west of Thessaloniki, an hour and a half drive. There are a few points of interest, the archaeological museum, the Byzantine Fortress, and the Roman Aqueduct (1st - 6th Century).

位于帖撒罗尼迦以西160公里处，一个半小时和​​车程。这里有几个景点：考古博物馆、拜占庭堡垒和罗马引水道（1 - 6 世纪）。

Via Egnatia

Roman Aqueduct

Arriving Greek Mainland: Neapolis

 The seaport Neapolis

Neapolis means the New City in Greek, today the city is called Kavala. The city in Roman times was situated on the ancient route of Via Egnatia; which was a continuation of the Via Appia from Rome, after crossing the Adriatic Sea, stretching all the way to Byzantium (later Constantinople, today Istanbul).

It was 160 km east of Thessaloniki and 14 km south of Philippi. 

The Via Egnatia and the seaport set its significance as a trade hub.

Today it is still a small but interesting city of about 56,000 people. 

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Let's Go to Greece!!

Going over to Greece

Paul and his team confirmed that it was God's leading that they should go west into Macedonia (Greece) to preach the Gospel, therefore they immediately took action.

So putting out to sea from Troas, we sailed a straight course to Samothrace, and on the following day to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is a leading city of that district of Macedonia, a Roman colony. And we were staying in this city for some days.     (Acts 16:11-12)

As mentioned before, Alexandria Troas was a major sealine hub of the region. Merchant vessels were going in all directions.

They embarked on a ship going west, the first stop is at an island called Samothrace.

This is a rather small island, today the population is less than 3,000 islanders. In ancient times, there were settlements, not of any significance, the only attraction was the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, now an archaeological site of important Hellenic and pre-Hellenic religious importance.

The most famous artifact from the temple complex is the 2.5-metre marble statue of Nike (now known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace), which dates from about 190 BC.  It is now located in Room 703 (Daru staircase), Denon wing, Level 1, at the Louvre in Paris. 

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Photos #6 Alexandria Troas: coastline

 Alexandria Troas was the best harbor of that region in her golden days. This was the hub of traffic in 3 directions: 

1. to the west: towards Traces, Macedonia and Greece.
2. to the south & east: towards the Roman Province of Asia, along all the coast of Anatolia
3. to the north &east: through the Dardanelles Straits to the Marmara Sea and further east to the Black Sea.
   
   
   

This once famous and busy harbor was choked up with sand and led to the collapse of the city. Many of the stones from the ruins of the buildings were shipped to Constantinople for reuse.

Here are some of our photos along the coast and modern pier of Dalyan.

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