2024年，当我看到 Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church（直落亚逸礼拜堂）发现百年时间胶囊的报道时，有朋友告诉我，宋尚节博士当年也曾在这间教会举行奋兴聚会。
这段历史深深触动了我，也让我产生一个感动：回到自己的祖籍地福清，重新认识并领受上一代所留下的属灵产业。
后来，我前往福清的时间，正好在2024年9月27日前后。抵达并入住酒店后，一位当地朋友告诉我，宋尚节的故居就在附近。也正是在那时，我才留意到，9月27日正是宋尚节的生日。
不久前，我又发现了一段耐人寻味的历史联系：2011年9月27日，适逢宋尚节110周年诞辰，新加坡教会特别选择在直落亚逸礼拜堂举行纪念感恩崇拜。当天约有500位来自不同宗派的基督徒参加，几位曾参与宋尚节事奉的人也在聚会中作见证。
如此看来，原本分散在不同时间与地点的片段，仿佛逐渐连成了一条线：
百年时间胶囊，使我想起上一代留下的属灵产业；
回到福清，使我重新思想自己的根源；
宋尚节留下的足迹，使我看见上一代为福音所付出的代价；
而9月27日这个日期，则将这些经历彼此连接起来。
回头来看，我更深地体会到：回到根源，并不是为了停留在过去；追寻属灵产业，也不是为了高举某一个人。
就像重新打开一枚埋藏多年的时间胶囊，我们所要寻找的，不只是过去发生过什么，更是要重新发现：神曾经如何在上一代人身上工作，而今天的我们又当如何承接这份托付。
记念，是为了重新发现；
重新发现，是为了继续承接；
承接，是为了传给下一代。
过去，有人忠心撒种；
今天，我们重新挖掘、重新发现；
愿那曾经燃烧的福音之火，
在这一代继续燃烧，并传到下一代。
In 2024, when I came across a report about the discovery of a century-old time capsule at Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church, a friend told me that Dr. John Sung had also held revival meetings at this church many years ago.
This piece of history deeply touched me and stirred something within me: a desire to return to Fuqing, my ancestral hometown, to rediscover and receive the spiritual heritage left by the previous generation.
Later, when I travelled to Fuqing, it happened to be around September 27, 2024. After I arrived and checked into my hotel, a local friend told me that John Sung’s former residence was nearby. It was also then that I noticed something I had not previously realized: September 27 was John Sung’s birthday.
Not long ago, I discovered another meaningful historical connection. On September 27, 2011, marking the 110th anniversary of John Sung’s birth, churches in Singapore specially chose Telok Ayer Chinese Methodist Church as the venue for a commemorative thanksgiving service. About 500 Christians from different denominations attended, and several people who had been involved in John Sung’s ministry also shared their testimonies during the gathering.
Looking at all this, fragments that once seemed scattered across different times and places gradually appear to form a connecting thread:
The century-old time capsule reminded me of the spiritual heritage left by an earlier generation;
returning to Fuqing caused me to reflect again on my own roots;
the footsteps left by John Sung showed me the price the previous generation paid for the Gospel;
and the date September 27 seemed to connect these experiences together.
Looking back, I have come to understand more deeply that returning to our roots is not about remaining in the past, and pursuing a spiritual heritage is not about exalting any particular person.
Like reopening a time capsule that has been buried for many years, what we are seeking is not merely to discover what happened in the past. Rather, it is to rediscover how God worked through the previous generation—and to ask how we, in this generation, should carry forward what has been entrusted to us.
We remember so that we may rediscover.
We rediscover so that we may carry it forward.
We carry it forward so that we may pass it on to the next generation.
In the past, others faithfully sowed the seeds.
Today, we dig again and rediscover what has been entrusted to us.
May the fire of the Gospel that once burned brightly
continue to burn in this generation
and be passed on to the generation to come.
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