A Brief History of Calvary Karen Baptist Church
The history of Calvary Karen Baptist Church dates all the way back to 2006 when the first group of Karen families arrived in Brisbane’s northside. They were separated upon their arrival in Brisbane and assigned to different suburbs. They initially sought out churches to attend, as the majority of them were Baptists. However, due to language barriers, those Karen families were unable to participate in the service. As a result, those families attempted to locate one another, and once located, they began worshipping in one another’s homes. They walked to each other’s houses during that time period because they lacked their own transportation and, more importantly, did not know how to use public transportation.
However, the Lord provided them with some local friends, who arranged for them to worship in their language at Stafford Heights Baptist Church on Sundays. For several years, they worshipped together as a fellowship. In 2013, as the Karen population increased, they formed a church and named it Calvary Karen Baptist Church.
Initially, the Karen fellowship at Stafford Heights Baptist Church was led by elders rather than a pastor. However, following Sunday Zue’s arrival in Brisbane in 2009, he was appointed pastor of the fellowship. For several years, Sunday Zue served as a sole pastor. Joshua Lin relocated to Brisbane in 2012. After a year in Brisbane, he was chosen as the fellowship’s secretary. In 2013, the fellowship decided to incorporate as a church, and as such, they convened a committee to discuss the church’s name. The majority of committee members agreed on the name Calvary Karen Baptist Church. They decided a year later that standing alone was not prudent and planned to join Queensland Baptists.
They were accepted by Queensland Baptists and became a Phase 1 Church of Queensland Baptists on May 29, 2014. Joshua Lin served as the Church’s secretary for six years before being appointed associate pastor in January 2019 due to the Church’s growth.
Calvary Karen Baptist Church wishes to express its heartfelt appreciation to Stafford Heights Baptist Church for allowing the Karen congregation to use their facilities for more than a decade. Additionally, Calvary Karen Baptist Church expresses gratitude to Queensland Baptists for allowing them to join Queensland Baptists.
ကရၤနံကညီဘျၢထံတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် အတၢ်စံၣ်စိၤတဲစိၤဖုၣ်ကိာ်
ဘၣ်ဆၣ် ခီဖျိလၢကစၢ်ယွၤ အဘျုးအဖှိၣ်အဃိ ဒိးန့ၢ်ဘၣ် တံၤသကိးလၢ ကိၤလၤဝါ စှၤဂၤ လၢသုးကျဲၤန့ၢ် အဝဲသ့ၣ်လၢ ကဘါယွၤလၢ စတးဖီး ဘျၢထံတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် အတၢ်သူၣ်ထီၣ်အပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ အဝဲသ့ၣ် ဘါယွၤဖဲန့ၣ် ဒ်တၢ်ရ့လိာ်မုာ်လိာ် အသိး လၢတဘျုးနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤ န့ၣ်လီၤႉ တုၤလီၤဖဲ ၂၀၁၃ နံၣ် ဖဲတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဖိ နီၣ်ဂံၢ် အါထီၣ်န့ၣ် အဝဲသ့ၣ်ဒုးကဲထီၣ် က့ၤဝဲဆူ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် ဒီး ယုၢ်ဝဲအမံၤလၢ ကရၤနံကညီဘျၢထံ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ
လၢအခီၣ်ထံးန့ၣ်ႇ ကညီတၢ်ရ့လိာ်မုာ်လိာ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်လၢ စတးဖီးဘျၢထံသရိာ်ပူၤ ဘၣ်တၢ်ပၢဆှၢအီၤလၢ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်သးပှၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ ဘၣ်ဆၣ် ဖဲသရၣ်စၢဒ့ဇူ ဟဲတုၤဖဲ ဝ့ၢ်ဘြံးစဘဲ ဖဲ၂၀၀၉ ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံႇ အဝဲဘၣ် တၢ်ဒုးကဲထီၣ်အီၤလၢ တၢ်ရ့လိာ်မုာ်လိာ်အံၤ အတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် သရၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ သရၣ်စၢဒ့ဇူ မၤယွၤအတၢ်မၤဒ် တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်သရၣ် ထဲတဂၤအသိး လၢတဘျုးနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤႉ သရၣ်ယိၤရှံယၤလ့ ဟဲတုၤလၢ ဝ့ၢ်ဘြံးစဘဲ ဖဲ ၂၀၁၂ နံၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ အိၣ်လၢ ဝ့ၢ်ဘြံးစဘဲ တနံၣ် ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံႇ အဝဲဘၣ်တၢ်ဃုထၢ ထီၣ်အီၤလၢ တၢ်ရ့လိာ်မုာ်လိာ် တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်အံၤ အနဲၣ်ရွဲၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ ဖဲ ၂၀၁၃ နံၣ်န့ၣ်ႇ ပှၤမၤသကိးတၢ်ဖိတဖၣ် ဆၢတဲာ်ဝဲလၢ ကဒုးကဲထီၣ် တၢ်ရ့လိာ်မုာ်လိာ်အံၤလၢ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ႇ ဒီးဆၢတဲာ်သကိး လၢကကိး တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်အံၤ အမံၤအဂီၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ
ပှၤအါဂၤဘၣ်သူၣ်ဘၣ်သး လၢ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် အံၤ တၢ်ကကိး န့ၢ်အမံၤလၢ “ကရၤနံ ကညီဘျၢထံ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်” န့ၣ်လီၤႉ တနံၣ်ဝံၤအလီၢ်ခံ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဖိ တဖၣ် ဆၢတဲာ်ဝဲလၢ ကဂဲၤဆၢထၢၣ်လၢ အကစၢ်ဒၣ်ဝဲ ထဲတဖုဧိၤန့ၣ် တကြၢးဘၣ်ႇ အဃိ အဝဲသ့ၣ်သုးကျဲၤဝဲလၢ ကမၤသကိးတၢ်ဒီး ခွံစလဲဘျၢထံ န့ၣ်လီၤႉ အဝဲသ့ၣ် ဘၣ်တၢ် တူၢ်လိာ်အီၤလၢ ခွံစလဲဘျၢထံ အပူၤ ဒီး ကဲထီၣ်ဝဲ ခွံစလဲဘျၢထံ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်မၤတံၤမၤသကိး တဖုဖဲ လါမ့ၤ ၂၉ သီႇ ၂၀၁၄ နံၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤႉ သရၣ်ယိၤရှံယၤလ့ မၤတၢ်ဒ် တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် အနဲၣ်ရွဲၣ်လၢဃုနံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤဝံၤႇ ခီဖျိလၢ တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ် အံၤဒိၣ်ထီၣ်အဃိႇ အဝဲဘၣ်တၢ်ဃုထၢအီၤဒ် သရၣ်စၢၤ တဂၤအသိးန့ၣ်လီၤႉ
