2008年叶贵权牧师陪同夫人回沙巴州，除了探望娘家亲戚之外，更负有一个重要的使命，就是要为世界叶氏总谱做宣传。叶牧师带着先锋队般的热忱，四处拜访本地华人社团及召开记者招待会，高效的把讯息散播开来。
本地叶姓人士如叶天荣、叶茂成、叶美庆及叶秀和等人因而先后认识了叶贵权牧师，对世界叶氏总谱起了莫大的兴趣，续而应邀出席于2008年11月28日假广州深圳举行的〈世界叶氏总谱编辑部扩大会议〉。此会议云集来自全世界数千位叶氏宗亲，场面浩大壮观，震撼人心，令这团由沙巴州来得叶氏宗亲们深受启发，兴起了成立沙巴州西海岸叶氏宗亲会的念头。
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图示：前排左起：叶贵权牧师，叶秀和：后排右起：叶茂成，叶秋平，
叶伟彰，叶天荣及叶女士摄于2008年11月28日在广州深圳世界
叶氏总谱编辑部扩大会议。
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以下为叶茂成（Joseph Yap) 与 叶贵权（John Yapp) 在会议后之电邮来往，在此博客刊登，希望读者能感应他们的兴奋与热忱。
Dear Brothers & Sisters,
I had just returned home safely from Shenzhen yesterday. I am so happy and excited indeed that I want to tell to our family members that I have found our family root in Shenzhen and that I was able to meet our three closed family members during the World Yap Genealogy Editorial Meeting held at East Lake Hotel Convention Centre in Shenzhen on 28th November 2008.
They are Capitan Ip Chau Ping from Lin Ma Hang Village, New Territory; Dr Ip Wai Cheung from Hong Kong and Yap Zhi Guang from Luo Hu, Shenzhen
Capitan Ip Chau Ping is a very active and well known community leader in Lin Ma Hang who served in many top positions in the village community and memorial services, gold trade associate and also Hong Kong New Territory temple committee member.
Dr Ip Wai Cheung who is a Professor in Applied Mathematics lecturing in Polytechnic University in Kowloon, Hong Kong. According to him, he used to travel oversea in his educational works and had been to KK before.
Yap Zhi Guang who is doing his own business. His company is called Shenzhen Lian Tang Limited Company, a corporative company supported by the community in Lian Tang. Presently, he is a Director cum Deputy General Manager.
According word from the three of them, two of them are the same hierarchy or level with me which we are able to know from the Chinese name middle word "Miao", and one of them I have to call him Shu Gong who is same level as our grandfather. All three of them can speak Hakka very well; it is 100% the slang that sounds the same as KK Hakka.
How I get to know them? All three of them were introduced to me in the convention by our World Yap Genealogy Editorial Chairman Mr. Sunny Yip who is a prominent philanthropist and businessman in Hong Kong & China. In fact it was his very kind invitation which enable me to attend this great convention and get together as a family. Not to forget also, it was Pastor John Yap from Perth, Australia who first brought the good news to KK two months ago. In fact it was through his great effort that I was able to know the Chairman Mr. Sunny Yip
Both of their grand fathers are from Da Peng Shan Village at Shenzhen side which is not far from our grand father's place Lin Ma Hang Village at New Territory. The two places are nearby the border between Hong Kong and Shenzhen. You can search these places in the internet by google earth, please go into http://earth.google.com/ and download the website.
Please view pictures in the attachment.
Picture 1 – Chairman Mr. Sunny Yip
Picture 2 – Capitan Ip Chau Ping (1st Right), Dr Ip Wai Cheung (2nd Right) and
Pastor John Yap is at my left side.
Pastor John Yap is at my left side.
That is all I can tell you for the time being, and I will continue writing to you all again when I have more free times.
Regards,
Brother Joe
I was equally excited as you were in our recent trip to Shenzhen. Thank God for the privilege and opportunity to be able to attend at the meeting of the compilation of Worldwide Ye Shi Genealogy (Perhaps for uniformity we may adopt common terminology to avoid confusion and to make common expression). Ye is the Pu tung Hua (common spelling) for all dialectic forms of Yap, Yapp, Yip, Ip, Yeh, Yiap etc. 葉 is the regular form of modern simplified 叶.
Kota Kinabalu
Dear Joseph,
I was equally excited as you were in our recent trip to Shenzhen. Thank God for the privilege and opportunity to be able to attend at the meeting of the compilation of Worldwide Ye Shi Genealogy (Perhaps for uniformity we may adopt common terminology to avoid confusion and to make common expression). Ye is the Pu tung Hua (common spelling) for all dialectic forms of Yap, Yapp, Yip, Ip, Yeh, Yiap etc. 葉 is the regular form of modern simplified 叶.
It is so wonderful to meet all the kindred mention in your email, particularly Dr. Ip who is my mate at school days thirty eight years ago in Hong Kong. We were so pleased for the reunion. I am very grateful for all the representatives who come from Sabah. I trust that all of you will be obliged and privileged to take the initiative to campaign for this movement, and the magnificent task of compiling the Worldwide Ye Shi Genealogy. I sincerely hope that you will pass information to our Ye clanmen in Brunei. I should be most obliged if you would make a visit to Kuching to meet the kindred at this capital city of Sarawak. Surely, you would be recorded as the convener for these Borneo states. Perhaps, you can find some Ye/Yap at Pontianak!!!
I really appreciate your zeal at writing this email at early hours of the day!!! I hope to email to you some translation I have done while on the plane returning to Perth. Hope This will help to give information to those who are English educated.
Bye for the time being.
With best regards
John Yapp
Perth
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