周瑞芳牧师毕业于台北辅仁大学中文系。1978年获美国浸信会西南神学院儿童教育硕士。1985年继续攻读教会音乐,主修声乐。1991年膺选为神学院公演中女低音独唱角。曾多次应邀赴多伦多、旧金山等地演唱神曲“弥赛亚”及“以利亚”。她在美国教会中担任儿童诗班指挥近十五年.。并曾每年在中华基督教会音乐崇拜研究院主办的东西岸音乐营中教授声乐、教会音乐、崇拜学等其他课程。曾录製经典圣诗第一辑:“我宁愿有耶稣“。近期将出版中、英文第二辑。
二十多年来周牧师除主要带领大陆学人的事工之外,并在各教会举办崇拜真义、圣诗、声乐的讲座。曾为“圣诗漫谈”专栏作家。目前以网上广播方式製作主持“廻声谷”圣诗欣赏节目 。www.vos.org.tw、www.worshipandhymns.com/index.html
从2000年至今,周牧师每年受邀前往中国大陆、台湾、东南亚各地讲课。近年应世界华人圣乐促进会的邀请,担任2008年古晋、2010年吉隆坡及2012纽西兰大会的声乐导师。
能传扬福音爲主奔跑是她的喜乐,能与众教会分享”圣乐及敬拜”的真理是主的呼召。周牧师与夫婿现居德州福和市.。一女、一子已增添孙子、孙女。夫妻均曾带领美国国际查经团契BSF多年。目前也一同在美国爱加倍浸信会Agape Baptist Church 关怀海外中国的学人学者。
Rev. Christine Chou Liu, Mezzo-Soprano, received her B.A. in Chinese Literature from Fu Jen University and her M.A. in Early Childhood Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and studied Church Music with concentration in Voice. She has been invited to be the Alto soloist for several Oratorios in United States and Canada. She was a children’s choir director for 14 years at University Baptist Church. She is a member of the faculty for Chinese Christian Church Music Institute of Worship and World Association of Chinese Church Music. Rev. Liu published a Christian traditional hymn CD, “I’d Rather Have Jesus” in 1999. Two new hymn CDs will be published in early 2012.
She is a free-lance columnist for Overseas Campus Magazine and currently hosts a hymn appreciation program for CGBC. Her newly established non-profit organization, Reverberations, Inc. will be providing materials and sources for Church Music and Worship Truth through web site and seminars at locations.
She and her husband, Frank live in Fort Worth, Texas. Both of them were in leadership at Bible Study Fellowship. They minister to mainland Chinese scholars and students at Agape Baptist Church of Fort Worth. They have two children and two grandchildren. |