‘Ling Liang’ means ‘spiritual food’, or ‘living bread' and refers to Jesus’ name He used for Himself— “the Bread of Life.”
Australia Ling Liang Church – a baptistic, evangelical spiritual home of Chinese and Australian Christians in Asquith, on Sydney’s Upper North Shore.
Our Location: 8 WALL AVE. ASQUITH, NSW, 2079
Parking located outside church along Wall Avenue.
Alternate parking includes Asquith Park carspaces along Rotherwood Avenue, street parking along Rupert Street and Asquith Park carspaces on Mills Avenue side entrance.
ALLC. is a warm and inviting Church where there is a genuine excitement in gathering to worship our Lord Jesus Christ and learn from His written Word, the Bible. Some of our people are Asian and some are non-Asian. Together we are a family – part of the body of Christ. Every-one is welcome at our Church, and we try to cater to a diverse group of people from many different backgrounds. And although we have a distinctly Chinese flavour, we are also an Aussie Church, seeking to minister to the people in our neighborhood.
Regular Sunday Program: 9:30 a.m. English Church Service.
9:30 a.m. Children’s Sunday School.
10:45 a.m. Morning Tea.
11:15 a.m. Cantonese Church Service.
11:15 a.m. Children’s Sunday School.
12:45 p.m. Church Lunch.
The Lord’s Supper (Holy Communion) is observed the first Sunday of the month at both the English and the Cantonese Church Services.
Regular Youth Group program (Grades 5 - 12) - CROSSWORD: 7:00pm Fridays during school terms (program varies according to Youth Group extracurricular activities) - Enquire within for updates
Regular Uni to Young Adults Bible study - SOURCE: Please enquire within for details
P.C. Yeung & Mrs. Yeung
What the Bible says:
God created us, but we have strayed away from Him. We have decided to exert our own autonomy and rule our own lives regardless of God’s instructions for wholesome and right living. The Bible says “There is none righteous, not even one.” (Romans 3:10) In this condition we are what the Bible calls ‘lost’ from God. We are spiritually cut off from Him, and there is no way we can repair the damage our pride and selfishness has caused. We are actually in a perilous position, because if we were to die in this state we would be eternally lost from God. That’s the bad news.
Now for the GOOD NEWS!
The Bible says: “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” (Romans 5:8) There is no way out on our own, so because He loves us and wants us to be with Him for all eternity, God found a way out for us. Jesus Christ, God the Son, left heaven to live on the earth for a time, and then take the punishment for our misdeeds upon himself. He willingly sacrificed His own life for us, being put to death in our place. Although we deserve to die for our rebellion against God, Jesus took our place on the executioner’s cross, and in this way He paid our debt of death to God.
By admitting our sinfulness and relying on the truth that Jesus died in our place, we can be spiritually cleansed. As a result, we are also given eternal life. That means we will live forever with God in His amazing and perfect home. The Bible says all this beautifully and simply this way:
“For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
Why not accept God’s amazing gift today? If you would like to do so, then talk to God and tell Him of your desire to be forgiven and cleansed. He will hear as you talk to Him, whether you do so quietly in your heart, or openly by speaking aloud.
Prayer to become a Christian:
[Here is a suggested prayer, but it needs to be prayed sincerely and made a prayer from your own heart if it is to be truly effective:]
“Dear God,
I agree with You that I have offended You in many ways through my words, actions and attitudes. I realize that my rebellion has put me in the dangerous position of being lost from You forever, and I am truly sorry. I understand that Your Son, Jesus Christ, died in my place and paid for my sin. I ask You to please forgive me of all my sin, cleanse me completely, and grant me full pardon for every offense. I gratefully accept Your gift of eternal life with You in heaven. I ask You to help me to live from now on in ways that will please You.
I ask this in the name of your Son, Jesus Christ.
Thank-you for hearing and granting my request.
Amen.”
What to do next:
If you have prayed this prayer sincerely, or a similar one of your own from your heart, you have been born spiritually into God’s family as His newest child. You will never perish in hell, but spend eternity with Him in heaven.
You will now want to grow in your new-found faith. Please tell some-one about what God has done in your life. Also, contact us via phone, email, letter or in person and tell us about the decision you have made to follow Christ. We would love to help you more in person or equip you with materials to help you on your spiritual journey with Jesus. And of course, we would love you to visit our church and get to know us personally and tell us your story. It will also give you opportunity to be further taught from God’s Word, the Bible. Come and meet your spiritual brothers and sisters. We would love to get to know you!
If you have not taken this step, but would like further information about having a new life as a Christian, please contact us. We would love to help you.
Our History
We were founded in 1991 in Hornsby, on Sydney’s northern edge, as a Chinese Church which ministered mainly in Cantonese. In 1994 our current Church property was acquired at 8 Wall Avenue, Asquith, (a suburb adjoining Hornsby). Several years later an English ministry was started, so that those who wished to worship God and learn Bible truths in a more Australian context could do so. The Church’s first Pastor to the English congregation was called to the position in March, 2006.
A History of Ling Liang World-Wide Evangelistic Mission (A Brief Historical Perspective, By Rev. Edwin Su.)
In 1908, Rev. Timothy Dzao was born in Shanghai and answered God’s full time service calling in 1925 during the time of the Shanghai Great Revival. Around 1949 he became the most widely traveled Chinese evangelist and is also the first pastor starting a world-wide mission from the base of an individual local church.
In 1936 and 1938, while he was pastoring in the Shanghai Covenant Church denomination, and after twice conducting evangelistic meetings in South East Asia islands, Rev. Dzao deeply felt that “now is the time for Chinese Churches to GIVE … we sincerely hope that Chinese Churches can organize a mission organization dedicated to give our ability and financial resources to God for foreign missions” (Rev. Dzao, “Journey of Mission”. Vol. 1, page 69). After the Pearl Harbor attack on December 8, 1941, the ministries in China which used to receive support from foreign missionary organizations faced great difficulties. This situation inspired Rev. Dzao and his co-workers to be even more determined to establish a non-denominational Chinese church-based world-wide missionary organization. One night in June 1942, Rev. Dzao and 5 other co-workers, after keeling down and praying in an empty yard of Huang JiaSha garden, decided to name this missionary organization “Ling Liang Church”. In August 1942, the Ling Liang Church started Sunday services using the auditorium of Xiejin High School, and used its classrooms as the Seminary and Bible School for training ministers. This Shanghai Ling Liang Church later became the parent church of the Ling Liang World-wide Evangelistic Mission. After September 1942 when the first Ling Liang Church was set up in Shanghai, other branches of Ling Liang Church were also established in Nanjing, Hangzhou, and Suzhou.
In October 1942, Shanghai Ling Liang Church started spreading the gospel to the twenty thousand Jewish refugees who escaped from the Nazi and Hitler’s prosecution and had come to the Hongqao region. Many member of the church offered financial assistance to these Jewish refugees, and two female co-workers, Esther Wang and Minyuen Lee, led these Jews in bible study conducted in English. As to Rev. Dzao, he would hurry to lead the Sunday worship services for the Jewish people in Hongqao every week after he finished the Sunday Worship service at the Ling Liang Church. He continued doing this until the end of World War II in 1945. During that period, Rev. Dzao also provided financial and other assistance to some of the foreign missionaries who were kept in the Japanese Concentration Camp.
In 1945, when the Sino-Japanese war was over, the Ling Liang World-wide Evangelistic Mission was established in Shanghai. The goal of this Mission was “Wishing God will also use us Chinese ministerial workers to spread the Gospel in foreign counties, starting from Shanghai (Jerusalem), expanding to the whole of China (the Land of Judea) and countries in the Far East (Samaria), till the end of the world” (Rev. Dzao, “Journey of Mission”. Vol. 1, page 115). According to this goal, the Ling Liang World-wide Evangelistic Mission was preparing to expand its ministries from the original Ling Liang Churches in and surrounding Shanghai to major cities in Southern, Northern and Western China, then to rural villages, and to set up Kindergartens, Elementary Schools, Orphanages, Elderly Care Centers, and Eastern China Seminary in Suzhou to train ministers for pastoring and missionary ministries.
In the autumn of 1947, Ling Liang church ordained Rev. Chuanzhen Lan and Rev. Moses Chou as two pastors to be missionaries and dispatched them to overseas mission fields. Rev. and Mrs. Lan went to form a branch of Ling Liang Church in Calcutta, India and Rev. Chou to Jakarta, Indonesia. They would preach the gospel to local people as well as the overseas Chinese there.
After 1949, Ling Liang World-wide Mission expanded to outside of China, setting up branch Ling Liang Churches in Hong Kong, Taiwan, South East Asia, Japan, North America, UK, and other places. In 1955, Rev. Dzao founded the Christian Cimoeiel University in Jakarta, Indonesia, in February 1956 he also established a Missionary College there. Rev. Dzao himself would travel all over the world to lead evangelistic meetings, to bring spiritual revival to Chinese churches as well as churches in foreign countries. An example of one of his many cross-culture missionary efforts took place from May to June 1965. During this time he led over 200 evangelistic meetings in five major cities in Korea, and spread the Gospel to over half a million Korean people.
Over the past decades, Ling Liang World-wide Evangelistic Mission has been using church planting as the major way of missionary work. As an example, since 2003, Torrance Bread of Life Church has been involved in the Mexico Outreach Missions (Ling Liang para Mexico) to participate in setting up churches to spread the Gospel to local Mexicans. At the present time, there are many Ling Liang Churches or Bread of Life Churches planted in many nations; and these churches again are planting new churches in their own country or expanding by planting new churches in other countries. These are evidences, as declared by Rev. Dzao in his book “Journey of Missions” Vol 2, page 87, that Ling Liang World-Wide Evangelistic Mission is a evangelical organization and not a denomination, for all our missionaries are not salaried workers but are dependant upon God’s provision by faith. All local Ling Liang Churches or Bread of Life Churches are independent in their own decision making regarding policy or financial matters. Therefore, although the Ling Liang Churches or Bread of Life Churches in the world may have different ways of ministering to their congregations, we can praise the Lord that all churches have one common vision: to conduct evangelistic mission in accordance with the Great Commission from Jesus Christ.
(Author: Rev. Edwin Su. Note: The sources of this article are mostly from the book “Journey of Missions: by Rev. Timothy Dzao and verbal sharing by Minister Esther Wang.)
God created us, but we have strayed away from Him. We have decided to exert our own autonomy and rule our own lives regardless of God’s instructions for wholesome and right living. The Bible says “There is none righteous, not even one.” (Romans 3:10) In this condition we are what the Bible calls ‘lost’ from God. We are spiritually cut off from Him, and there is no way we can repair the damage our pride and selfishness has caused. We are actually in a perilous position, because if we were to die in this state we would be eternally lost from God. That’s the bad news. 
