HongKong 2005

El Paso Kings Kids team attends the Hong Kong Gateway Camp

It's a strategic location where our team of 31 spent five weeks this summer and had a great experience serving the Lord. Why is ministry in Hong Kong important? 95% of the people there do not know the Lord. 400,000 cross the border with Mainland China daily (we could see it from the base, not far away) so what happens in Hong Kong affects China as a whole. Hong Kong is the only place in China where the Gospel can be legally, publicly presented.

Here are some of the places where the team ministered:
An English camp with a church in Shatin, another big city with endless high rise apartment buildings up to about 35 stories. The team taught Christian songs, Bible stories and other "English" lessons to neighborhood children who were energetic, to say the least, and kept our kids busy. At the end we saw children coming to the Lord and our kids making friends with Chinese Christian teenagers.

Dale Kauffman, the founder and international director of King's Kids, invited us to HK to work with him on a major project. The Gateway Camp was held at the Hong Kong Baptist University with guest speakers focusing on China and teams from Canada, Argentina, Japan, Scotland, Switzerland, Taiwan and other places who came to prepare for mission outreach in China.

Our band led powerful worship. The camp was very inspiring to the team regarding ministry in China and working with local churches. We participated in a great multi- church youth rally and a prayer day on the island with a total of about 900 kids. There was also an outreach on the university campus (which has mostly non-Christian students), prayer meetings, leadership meetings, meetings to plan meetings, and very little sleep. All the key youth leaders in the city were at our rallies and meetings and came away with a better picture of what King's Kids is and how we can work together.

The boys' detention center in Shatin, where 80 teenage boys live. Most are from wealthy families, but they are neglected and angry, so they get into gangs and trouble. The team ministered very powerfully, and 25-30 boys prayed to give their lives to the Lord. The YWAM sports evangelism ministry has ongoing programs there but had never seen any of the boys come to the Lord before, and they are very excited about it. Their people translated as we had small group ministry and prayer for the boys' needs afterward. Returning the next week was a lot of fun for the team as they played various sports with the boys, and several of them spontaneously came to our team and told them they wanted to give their lives to the Lord! Our team kids were touched by their sincerity.

One of the key churches in Hong Kong invited us to do a youth rally for kids from their 8 congregations and their unsaved friends. Our band led worship for an hour, with some of their singers joining in to do the same songs in English and Cantonese. Next came an hour of performing arts, testimonies and preaching, followed by ministry time. The 100+ youth were very responsive, about 15 raised their hands to meet the Lord and ALL of them came up for prayer at the end! We had a lengthy ministry time with many tears and intense things happening afterward.
 

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A school where 100+ kids came to do sports, dance and drama workshops.