The 21st century runs with the great wheel of time. This is a time of Chinese… a time that Chinese churches, after a hundred years of development, should now stand on our own in the world.

In April 2006, the government declared a revision on the Private School Law. Religious institutions are now allowed to apply for official accreditation. From then, while praying for God’s leading, CES began the discussion on the campus expansion project and the application of the official accreditation. In fact, after two phases of construction in 1979 and 1987 respectively, there is no more space for students in residence as well as the increasing number of freshmen each year in the present campus. In responding to the grace of God and a bigger entrustment, the cry for campus expansion became louder and louder. In September the same year, the faculty had met unanimity in submitting the application of accreditation to the Ministry of Education, and actively launching the drafting of the Third Phase of the campus expansion project.

Finally, in March 2007, we found a piece of land in Taoyuan Bade City (approximately six acres) and all members of the Board of Trustees had agreed to purchase the land. The land is flat and suitable for construction. It takes only 40 minutes to drive there from CES’s current campus and it is near to the proposed MRT station, highway and the Taoyuan international Airport. As long as the direct Cross-Strait flights have been put into practice, it provides us with an opportunity to train ministers for the Mainland China. God has made a road in the wilderness. In His hands, CES has raised enough funds for purchasing a land which situates near the international airport, and is available for future development in less than two years. The new campus in Bade would become the equipping centre for Chinese ministers from all over the world.

Since signing the contract with the land owner in May 2008, CES has moved a big step to the next milestone. Follow-up works include: submitting the application of accreditation to the Ministry of Education, applying for change in land category, starting the construction work of the new campus and raising money for the building funds and the construction work. The building fund of about NT$ 600 million (US$18.46M) for the third phase of campus expansion is needed. We hope that by 2012 when the construction work is completed, we will be able to reach this target. Such great deal of money demands God’s grace and mercy in moving brothers and sisters to support us with prayers and pledges, so that we can accumulate enough funds.

In the past 39 years, CES received God’s entrustment and kept the vision. Now that we are facing the coming of a new prospect, we believe that God who calls those things which be not as though they were, and who is the author and the finisher, shall give us more grace. He shall look after CES, until the day Jesus comes.

“Our help is in the name of the LORD, who made heaven and earth.” (Psalm 124:8)