同路人語601- 休息、再上路 Rest and Move On

休息、再上路 Rest and Move On

                五年前，我們憑著信心，與歡欣機構一起搬進森林山的活動中心，盼望能夠藉著拓展社區活動，更全面的服事華人社區。由於各種預計不了的因素，我們會在未來作出一些調整。在經過網絡大數據、智能手機、及社交推廣新模型全面影響社會下，《同路人》已調整為雙週刊。在紙媒大量倒閉及減少派發量下，本刊堅持優質內容及維持派發量，及得到廣告客戶的支持，在華人社區中影響力急遽增加。

                去年我們監察政府及積極在聯邦大選中向政府及反對黨反映意見，令到維州及聯邦政府將提供合共1550萬作新建華人長者謢理院之用，可以說是在澳洲華人媒體中，從未有取得過的成績。我們現正推動維州政府成立多元文化賭博關懷中心，向不同民族的移民提供服務，盼望能在明年取得政府的支持。與歡欣機構合作的「同聲同路人」電台，20個月來每週八小時在FM94.1及FM97.4廣播，已成為墨爾本華人所熟悉的中文電台節目。由於3CW已停止了粵語廣播，我們的廣東話節目，更是除了SBS以外，在墨爾本主要的廣東話的社區廣播。我們盼望會有更多的義工加入電台的工作，服務社區。歡欣學習中心一直以來提供了不少中文的社區學習課程，在明年我們更會增強一些就業訓練的班，協助華人移民在這裏進入工作。

                為配合我們目前的發展，「歡欣。同路人」會在下週開始搬遷到位於Nunawading 火車站旁的新辦公室。只要兩分鐘你就可以從Nunawading 車站進到我們的辦公室，更方便機構及電台各義工及學習中心的學生。搬遷後，歡欣書室計劃會更全面地提供其他語言的聖經、福音禮品及傳福音的工具，我們正在尋覓適當的地點，繼續更全面的多元文化福音工作，現時我們會暫停提供服務一段日子。

                從1997年我們開展服事教會的歡欣書室的工作開始，到創辦《同路人》社區雜誌，拓展社區學習及組成華人社區電台廣播的今天，我們已朝向「把信仰帶向社區、以信仰服事社區」的目標。現時我們正走向調整、鞏固、再上路的階段。盼望各位支持歡欣機構服事社區，喜歡《同路人》作為獨立、非政治化、協助華人融入澳洲主流社會的讀者們，繼續支持我們走下去。

                下週開始，我們會搬遷，因此今年本刊會提早一點休息，明年一月會再與各位讀者見面。祝大家聖誕快樂、新年蒙福！更祝願大家在假期中，充滿平安喜樂！更盼望這平安，特別臨到在我們遠方的家鄉，不管是香港、台灣、中國、或是東南亞不同的國家。

周偉文 社長

Rest and Move On

Five years ago, by faith we had moved with Rejoice organization into Forest Hill R@S Activity Centre, hoping to extend our service to the community through various large scale activities. With unforeseeable circumstances we are now making some adjustment. With development of big data through network, smartphone technology and social marketing initiatives, Sameway is not a biweekly publication. With many competitors left the market and the dramatic decrease in distribution of other

publications, Sameway has insisted in quality content and steady distribution , we have the support of the advertising clients and the influence of Sameway has been dramatically increased.

Last year, we have monitored the performance of the various governments and reflecting Chinese opinions in various elections. Through our hard work, the Victorian and Commonwealth government have committed a total of 15.5 million in building a Chinese nursing home in boxhill area. This is a historical success for a Chinese community media in Australia. We are now pushing the Victorian government to establish a Holistic Supporting Centre for CALD communities to provide services to the migrant communities. We hope this can be realized in coming years. With Rejoice organization as partners, we have broadcasted 8 hours Chinese programs a week in FM94.1 andf FM97.4 and is now an established brand for “SameVoice Sameway”. With the closure of Cantonese program by 3CW in recent months, SameVoice Sameway is the major Cantonese radio program in Melbourne other than the provision by SBS. We hope that more volunteers will join this meaning radio program to serve the Chinese community. Rejoice Community Centre has provided various community learning programs and we are expecting to provide more vocation oriented programs to help Chinese migrants to find work here.

With our recent developments, R@S Activity Centre will move to a new office at Nunawading next to the railways with just two minutes walk. This will be more convenient for our volunteers and students. We hope that we can also find a more suitable place in future to continue the work of Rejoice Bookstore to provide bible and Christian resources in different languages for other CALD communities. Meanwhile we shall stop the ministry of bookstore for a while.

Starting from 1997 with a Christian bookstore to serve Christians and churches, to founding Sameway in 2004, Rejoice Community Centre for community learning and community broadcasting since 2009, we are moving towards our mission to “bring faith to our community and to serve our community with faith”. Now we are adjusting, consolidating and moving on our next stage. We hope the supporters of Rejoice ministry, and readers of Sameway as an independent, non-political and community building magazine will continue support us to continue onwards.

Next week, we shall move to our new premise and Sameway will continue next January. We wish all our readers a merry Christmas and a blessed new year ahead. We also wish that you will experience peace and joy in this holiday seasons. We also hope that this peace especially will be with our friends and relatives in our homeland no matter Hong Kong, Taiwan, China or various SE Asian countries.

Raymond Chow, Publisher