Background
One of our church’s missions is to reach
out to equip our people to reach out to others, and the setting up of MTC is to
accomplish this goal. Since its conception, we had enlisted the help of Pastor
Ben Wong.
The MTC is soon to be officially launched,
and Pastor Ben had sent Pastor Vivian and Sister Chan Yin Yan to help to
finalise the details. They had been here
for a few days meeting with our leadership.
We thank Pastor Ben, Pastor Vivian and
Sister Chan for all their help.
Sharing by Pastor Vivian
Pastor Vivian shared that she was honoured
to be at our church to help us with MTC.
She has been a believer for 40 years, and in active ministry for 20
years. She is full time pastor as well
as principal of a Bible school in Hong Kong. 100 percents for both ministries.
She shared that nowadays many youths in
Hong Kong are lost, they do not know what they are doing, what they are going
to do, they do not know the reality of work etc.
The MTC in Hong Kong is made up of 100
churches coming together to form it. It has been 25 years since the MTC
started, and they have trained more than a thousand students. They are not many
Bible schools in Hong Kong.
There are too many needs in their society.
Jesus not only cared about the full time workers but also the ordinary people.
There it is important to train ordinary people to spread the Gospel.
The duration of the training at MTC is one
year. There is no academic requirements, everyone is welcome to
join the school. They have students, professionals, business people, mothers,
fathers, and even older people above 50 years old. In 18 years MTC had sent out
more than 150 long term missionaries to various countries. One youth of 20 years old served in Turkey,
and now he had served 3 years.
Pastor Vivian shared that as a pastor and
teacher she just wanted to reach out to the needy in Hong Kong. She also mentored others to go out to serve
and show love to the unfortunate and destitute.
She related a story about a woman whom she mentored for more than 10
years now. This woman was a well to do
business woman and she was kind of proud of her achievement. After Pastor
shared with her about 10 years ago she came to Christ. Pastor brought her to share in the streets of
Hong Kong but she was very uncomfortable at first, but Pastor Vivian did not
give up on her. She was with this Sister
at least 2 to 3 days a week going out to share with others the love of Christ. After about a decade this Sister’s work is
street evangelism, and basically to go out to love others like Jesus love us.
Sharing
by Sister Chan Yin Yan
Sister Chan is a full time worker of 18
years. Her work at the MTC is to help to
disciple others and lead them to Jesus.
There are all sort of people joining MTC and she as a teacher is
responsible for the students. Sister
Chan shared of a student whose profession is as a bus driver. He was already 50 years old when he joined the
school. Nevertheless, he was a keen
learner and his life was changed when he came to Christ. Sister Chan observed that he had some kind of
struggles, for one he could not relate with his wife or children, and he did
not know how to show them love. From
Sis. Chan’s guidance of bus drive Chan Kwok Kheong she realized that he had an
extra marital affair. As he came to
Christ and learnt of Jesus’ teaching he wanted to give up on the other woman.
He finally managed to get out of this relationship. He seeks the forgiveness of his wife and that
was accepted. Now he is reconciled with
his wife and children, and they are happy.
Following this episode, Kwok Kheong’s wife was diagnosed with
cancer. Kwok Kheong lovingly took care
of her, and had been with her to the hospital.
Praise God, she recovered after sometimes! Than Kwok Kheong persuaded his wife to join
MTC which she did.
Conclusion
From the sharing by Pastor Vivian and
Sister Chan, we can see that MTC is a practical Bible school. It is not only learning biblical principles
and theories only, but going out to take action. Only those with experiences of participating
in missions, can teach people about missions.
It has to be love in action.
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