After my coworkers and I found Komland
Independence Movement in 2017, the major obstacle for us to publicize the idea
of Komland independence has been the poor popularity of Komland/Jiangxi; simply
put, let’s face it, we are not
Hong Kong or Shanghai, which are well known to the world for at least a century.
And the consequence of the lack of popularity is obvious: we can not locate too
much material in English as the inspiration to start our publicity campaign,
which is why we still focus on the publicity in Chinese.
Therefore, we can hardly find any words to
express our excitement when we discovered the website of the organization “Create International”whose mission
is the localization of Christianity; that is, to make films about Christianity
in vernaculars or to translate Bible into respective vernaculars.
To express our gratitude(we find the words
eventually), we immediately wrote an email to them, and we will post the email
below so you would know how grateful we are:
“Dear Create International:
We are Komland Independence Movement, an organization
that aims to free our motherland, Komland, or Jiangxi, from the occupation of
Communist China. For the past century, since we are known as Confucians, we are
normally but wrongly identified as Chinese and our cultural and linguistic
uniqueness are often forgotten by the world. Therefore, one can only imagine the
ecstasy we are in when we found that you, thanks to the Merciful HIM, have not
forgotten our people.
We really like the documentary “In Search of Truth” where you appealed for the spiritual needs of us Kom people(Gan is
the mandarin spelling of Kom) and we want to express our special gratitude for
your classification of Kom as a minority group instead of the majority “Han people”. Also, the
publicity film “Changed Lives” made us all teary just by listening to the familiar tones. In the
film, we truly feel the heartbeat of our city that comes to life never before
on the screen: we can see the girl who lives next door and never quit complaining
about her stubborn mother; we can see the lovely lady who is kind but credulous.
This is a miracle and for that, we again thank you for you kindness.
One of our colleagues remembered the time when he
first realized the existence of “preachers”, who is a
lovely couple that came across the world from South Africa to East Asia to
teach English and meanwhile spread the love of Jesus. “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who
love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” Today, there is no better explanation for this sentence.
Thank you, Warmest Regards and Sincerely yours
Blade
Komland Independence Movement”
And here is some detailed introduction to
the documentary and film mentioned above: Special thanks to the staffs who were
dedicated in the production of these films. Transcending time and space, your
love to us inspires us, encourage us and will stay in our hearts.
In Search of Truth
In Search of Truth is an inside view of one of China’s
largest minority groups who live near Nanchang. Get a personal look at the
spiritual needs of the Gan and hear about opportunities for service and what
the Lord is doing in their midst.
Production: 2003 / Running time: 15 minutes
Production: 2003 / Running time: 15 minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fNCL468YQ
Marty J Polston
Cheri Stevenson
Production Team:
Myra Aditya
Eli Anderson
Penny Armstrong
Calvin Conkey
Carol Conkey
Andrew Watson
Music:
Surrender by Dave Lubben
Beauty for Ashes by Shane Barnard, Shane Everett
Narration:
Marsha Crenshaw
Here’s the information of “Changed Lives”
Changed Lives 改变了生命 Gan Han language Film - Full Movie 电影完整版
For those of you Cathaysian who want to
pray for Komlish people, you can send your prayers to the email address below,
which belongs to Create International.
And please don’t forget to check the website of Create International. For
Cathaysian patriots, please be noted that there are other minority groups now
imprisoned in China who have their voices in “Create International”, including Manchu,
Hui, Tu, Tujia, Zhuang people.
Create International
The vision of Create International is to communicate
the message of Jesus Christ in ways that people can understand from their
cultural and linguistic background, using tools that can be widely circulated.
Dramatic films, evangelistic artwork, websites, indigenous music – God has
given us creative strategies to make His message known among the nations.
PS:
There are
blessings for Komlish people if you look for them harder. We also find the
website of “United Bible Societies”(UBS), whose aim also includes translation of Bible into vernacular
languages. Unfortunately, Kom language are now not in process, despite the
description of Kom/Gan is added on the website, indicating a potential plan for
the translation.
Chinese, Gan, also known as Jiangxinese, Kan, Xi, is a
language of China.
It has over 21,700,000 users in the Hubei and Jiangxi
provinces: including parts of Anhui, Chongyang, Dachi, Jiahu, and Xianning;
Fujian and Hunan provinces. Jing’an, Nanchang city, and Xiuhui (Chang-Jing);
Hunan (Liuyang); Yichun (Ichun), Jiangxi (Yi-Liu).
Dialects include; Chang-Jing, Yilu (Yi-Liu), Ji-Cha,
Fu-Guang, Ying-Yi, Nanchang, Datong, Leizi, Dongsui, Hauiyue. Marginally
intelligible with Mandarin [cmn] and Wu [wuu] Chinese. Lexical similarity: with
Hakka Chinese [hak]. A member of macrolanguage Chinese [zho].
Nanchang is representative dialect.
In order to continue to serve and support the Bible
ministry in China after the Cultural Revolution, UBS established the China
Partnership (CP) team dedicated to work with the Church in China on behalf of
the UBS Fellowship.
UBS partnership with the Chinese Church came about
when the Church in China had a vision of printing and distributing Chinese
Bibles in China. This massive historical project became possible due to
the coordinated fund-raising efforts of 37 member Bible Societies and
two UBS Regional Centers.
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