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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Going into the Community and Sowing the Seeds of Change

On January 16 this year, our college held a "Spiritual Training Day" to prepare teachers and students for the new academic season. The theme of this time is "Going into the Community", but how can understanding and serving the community be spiritual exercises? What does it mean to “work hard” in the community? How does all this relate to evangelism and missionary mission? ...
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Campus Extension Project III: A Short Introduction to Its Development

The Conception Seminary in the new teaching and research building of Zhang Lin Xiaoya, Chief Administrative Officer, has made great progress in various aspects such as curriculum innovation and teaching team in the past few years, and the number of students has also continued to increase. In order to support the sustainable and long-term development of the college, the Board of Directors established the "Campus Development Planning Committee" in early 2016. The purpose is to comprehensively understand the development needs of the college and formulate relevant plans. The "Campus Development Planning Committee" immediately established a "Architecture Team" under its jurisdiction, inviting talented professionals to serve as consultants to assist the college administrators in handling land lease modifications and provide professional advice on how to effectively use campus space. After carefully examining the development conditions of the college, the "Campus Development Planning Committee" recommended to the board of directors to build a teaching and research building on campus. The board of directors approved and accepted the proposal, and handed it over to the "construction team" to implement the recommendations. Teachers and students of our college have received the latest information on campus expansion, and professors have also provided opinions on the facilities required for the development of teaching and research in the college. The "architectural team" and professor representatives, together with architects, communicated and discussed with each other to shape the design of the new building. ...
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Expanding the Disciple Community of “Faith, Hope, and Love” and Campus Extension

Dean Cao Weitong still remembers that when I took office as the dean nine years ago, a member who cared very much about our hospital came to me and offered to make a substantial donation to the hospital for the construction of a new building. At that time, I thought that I had just become the dean and the school was in dire straits, so I wanted to seek God’s guidance and teach me how to lead the seminary out of the gloomy trough. I cannot live up to the love that my members have given to the college, but everything must be in line with God’s timing, and the top priority is to get the college back on track. So I made up my mind before God and quietly cultivated the soil given by God in the seminary. Wait for the time God has prepared to come. ...
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Campus Extension Project under the Faith, Hope, and Love Project

The third phase expansion project of the "Baptist" Western Australia school building is now in full swing. Therefore, we specially invited Dean Cao Weitong to share the vision and needs of the campus expansion plan, and explain the relationship between the "Faith, Hope and Love Project" and the expansion plan. In addition, we also invited Mrs. Zhang Lin Xiaoya, Chief of Administration, to introduce the content and development of the expansion plan so that everyone can understand the current situation.
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