Prayer, Righteousness and Social Media: Understanding Prayer from the Context of the Lord’s Prayer

Lin Guobin, Pastor, Internship Director, Lecturer in Practical Theology Likewise, your light should shine before others so that when they see your good deeds, they will praise your Father in heaven. I say to you, unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the teachers of the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. ...
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Walking with Others

The sixth group and the seventh group (Sham Shui Po) of Li Jiahui, Bachelor of Theology students, took a group photo. On January 16, the spiritual training day, our seventh group went to Sham Shui Po. Christian Concern for the Homeless took us on a guided tour of the community. Everyone doesn’t know much about Sham Shui Po, and I hope to learn more about it through this trip. ...
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Good Neighbor of the Homeless

Group 6 and Group 7 (Sham Shui Po) of the Bachelor of Theology students Ng Siu-man took a group photo of this community tour, which was led by the Christian Concern for the Homeless Association in Sham Shui Po District. The "homeless people" served by this agency include homeless people, people facing homelessness, and people living in poor housing. Our tour guides are recipients of this association. The tour routes are mainly arranged according to the places where the recipients live their daily lives, including barbecue restaurants, Chinese herbal fruit shops, McDonald's, and Internet cafes. Roast meat shops and Chinese herbal fruit shops are the shops that this tour guide often visits, while McDonald's and Internet cafes are his places to rest and relax. ...
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Getting to Know Our Community by Looking Beyond Our Horizons

Group 5 (Shek Kip Mei) of Yip Chun Si’s Master of Divinity students took a group photo on this spiritual training day. Our group came to Shek Kip Mei to get to know the community, and went to Tai Hang Sai Sun Chuen, Sham Shui Po Community Association, St. Francis of Assisi Church, etc. place. The mother church of my church is in Pak Tin, and the mother church of my church is in Tai Hang Tung. Our first inspection site that day was Tai Hang Sai Estate, which is exactly the place I must pass between my mother association and mother church for many years. I am familiar with Tai Hang Sai Village. The church holds camps and often uses Tai Hang Sai Village as one of the checkpoints for field orientation because it is a large place but not many residents. Most of them are elderly people and there is no administrator intervention. We, are a great place to play group games. Until now, we have not asked much about this community. We only know that there are plans to rebuild this area, so the church hopes that after Tai Hang Sai Estate is rebuilt, it can serve the residents there. However, during this community visit, the tour guide told us the story behind the development of the community, which completely changed my idea of serving this community. ...
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Love the Whole Person of Our Neighbors

Group photo of Ng Ji-yin, Bachelor of Theology students, Group 4 (Tai Kok Tsui). This spiritual practice day gave me the opportunity to participate in a community tour organized by Tai Kok Tsui New Blessing Ministries Association. This organization allows participants to learn first-hand the needs of poor people through "drop-in experience" and thus learn to respond appropriately to their needs. ...
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Repair, Restore, and Reconcile

Group photo of Master of Divinity student Tsang Jing-chong, Group 3 (To Kwa Wan). After the "Tujia" tour guide led a group of 20 of us to complete the guided tour in the old area of To Kwa Wan, he gave us an extra itinerary, which was to visit an old dilapidated building. 's rooftop. This rooftop is on the roof of a tenement building in the district. Since this place has been abandoned for a long time and the building is about to be rebuilt, the residents on the left and right sides simply regard this place as a garbage collection point and throw away all their old furniture and electrical appliances here to save the effort of taking them to the garbage station on the street. One day, some residents couldn't bear it anymore and decided to clean up the place. But there was a lot of rubbish, so they contacted the "Repair Hong Kong" volunteers who had been volunteering to help them repair electrical appliances to clean it up together. It is said that the volunteers spent at least seven full days of their spare time carrying the garbage in a human chain to clean up the large and small garbage. Now this place is very neat, painted with beautiful pictures, and has become a place for watching the sunset and for children to play. ...
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Toiling Silently after the Example of Jesus Christ

Group photo of the second group (To Kwa Wan) of Wu Bin Bin’s Master of Divinity students. On the afternoon of the spiritual practice day, we went to To Kwa Wan for community investigation. The community tour guide led us to "Tujia" (To Kwa Wan Story House). It provides a place to support the residents of the community, bring neighbors together, and build a mutual-help network through simple home repairs. They quietly "work hard" in the community. Isn't this what the missionaries who came to China did in the past? ...
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Sowing the Seeds of Change under Urban Renewal

Group photo of the first group (Yau Ma Tei) of Bachelor of Theology student Zeng Huanlin. The community our first group visited was Yau Ma Tei. The tour guide took the students into the streets and alleys of Yau Ma Tei, allowing us to get to know this old community that is facing reconstruction. We first came to Portland Street. There are several direct cross-border bus stops here, and there is a new cluster of hotels next to it, which stands out from the surrounding old district facilities. The tour guide pointed out that the development of Hong Kong's tourism industry has led to the closure of many old-style shops. With the closing of the store, people gradually drifted apart, and the strong human touch of the old community was no longer there. ...
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“Sowing the Seeds of Change”: Community Building and the Church Mission

Assistant Professor of Practical Theology (Social Ethics) Huan Chi-wai. For a long time, Hong Kong’s church’s model of serving society has been nothing more than “working for” (working for) or “being for” (being for), but lacks “working with people”. ” (working with), even resisting cooperation with people and groups outside the church, let alone learning to imitate Jesus Christ in “being with others” (being...
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The Spiritual Discipline of “Going into the Community”

Pastor Lin Guobin's spiritual training before the start of classes. Our school starts a new school year in August; every year we hold a three-day and two-night "spiritual training camp" to prepare teachers and students for the new school year. In January, we started the new school season with "Spiritual Exercise Day". We start the new school year and the new academic quarter with spiritual training camps and spiritual training days respectively, which are concrete actions to express that the college attaches great importance to the spiritual cultivation of teachers and students. A theologian said: "Praying without studying makes people empty; studying without praying makes people blind." For theological education, study and prayer are integrated with each other and cannot be separated. In the spiritual training camp, we learn to live in groups: worship together, listen to sermons together, and share with each other in groups. On the spiritual training day, there are different spiritual cultivation themes every year for teachers and students to learn, think and experience together. ...
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