Light of the Age

　　Brother Wan Yun-chee is a deacon at the Kowloon City Baptist Church. He serves the Lord attentively and wholeheartedly. He has been a voluntary treasurer for the church for 30 years, and participated in various ministries, including Sunday school, a training union, extension of the original premise and missionary ministries. Since 1996, he has also actively supported the scholarship and bursary of HKBTS. Deacon Wan was in the public construction industry for 40 years and retired 15 years ago.

Exemplary Predecessors

　　Ten years ago in 2009, Mrs. Celia Lam Juergens of HKBTS invited Deacon Wan to join the President’s Council. Deacon Wan and his wife prayed together that night, and he accepted the invitation the following day. In fact, when Deacon Wan was younger, he wished to be trained in a seminary, but was not able to do so due to his concerns for his family and work at the time. He feels deeply committed to theological education. Deacon Wan sees being able to serve in the President’s Council as a fulfillment to his wishes.

　　The late Deacon Chan Sai-ying, chairman of the Deacon Board, Kowloon City Baptist Church has also left an impression on him for his lifelong faithfulness to and love of the Lord. Deacon Chan had gone all out for God, with no complaints nor regrets; he also strongly supported theological education and was an example to Deacon Wan. Seeing other members serving and committing themselves in the President’s Council for years, even more senior than himself, Deacon Wan is moved and has deep appreciation for their efforts. These predecessors became his motivation to continue in his ministry.

Responding to God’s Love

　　Deacon Wan has been in the President’s Council for ten years, offering his expertise and advice for the seminary. During his service in the Council, he has been able to listen to the opinions of various church leaders coming from different backgrounds. He credits these kinds of thought provoking reflections with broadening his horizons. Deacon Wan thinks that education itself is important and theological education particularly so. He suggests that HKBTS should further promote itself, so that not only do churches get to know the seminary, and to have expectations of the seminary, but they also will offer support to the seminary in response to God’s love.

　　Deacon Wan appreciates the harmonious fellowship within the President’s Council. Even though its members are from various churches, with each of them bearing different aspirations, backgrounds and ideas, they all have something in common – all of them are experienced members of Baptist churches; in order to respond to God’s love, they all hope to better HKBTS so that the seminary could be used by God; they also encourage more believers to become a part of HKBTS and support the seminary financially. Therefore, even though they may have different opinions, they are able to accept each other and collaborate harmoniously. Deacon Wan further hopes that such harmonious, collaborative relationships can continue.

Light of the Age

　　Deacon Wan thinks that HKBTS practices the Bible’s command of 3T (namely train the trainee to be a trainer), that is to “entrust to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also” (2 Tm 2:2 ESV), and has trained a lot of students to be God’s servants for His kingdom, preparing them well for the good fight. HKBTS also has a beautiful campus with great surroundings; the faculty of HKBTS also possess excellent spirituality with great academic achievements, and yet they are also attentive to individual students; they nurture their aspirations so that students may put their gifts into good use and be greatly used by God in the future. Finally, Deacon Wan hopes that HKBTS can become “the light of the age,” to shine for God and guide people to the right direction.