The document discusses Rev. Dennis' work over the past two years at Emmanuel English Church, including developing partnerships with local schools to reach families and encouraging congregation members to help build platforms to fulfill the church's mission of reaching English-speaking communities in Hong Kong. It provides an update on the church's activities over the past year such as developing a website and renovating new office space, and looks ahead to future plans of working together as a congregation to build God's church and fulfill its vision.

1. October 2010 ● Issue 9 ● Emmanuel English Church●
A word from Rev Dennis
what’s been happenin’?Time flies when one is having fun. It is amazing that I have been serving at EEC for exactly two years
when this issue of Apidion is released. I have journeyed through the honeymoon period (the first few
months) where I got to know the congregation. I then entered the searching stage (the first half of
2009) where I seek God‘s guidance in serving at EEC. Through these journeys God guided me to
see the vision/mission He has given to EEC—we are to reach out to people who are comfortable with
English/Western culture and at the same time would like to have a bit of the Hong Kong culture.For
the last few months of 2009 I started to think a bit more about how we can fulfill such vision/mission.
I remember sharing with the congregation the need to locate ‗development platform‘ to reach out to
our target group in the beginning of 2009 and at the AGM. At the time, our youth ministry was the
most available means for us to reach out to our target group. Therefore, I thought of developing
partnership with high schools (in particular ICS and CAIS) so that we can reach families through the
students. Even though the pastors are a bit more involved in these high schools during the current
school year, we have not made close connections with the students such that we can reach out to
their family. We will not give up this approach in building a development platform because there is
basically limitless amount of opportunities with a student body of around 300 students in each high
school.
Besides looking into connecting with other high schools (local and international), it was discussed in
the recent Deacon Meeting that the church should mobilize the EEC congregation to locate
‗development platform‘ for the church. Maybe many people in your Mother‘s Group (or whatever
interest group) fit the profile of our target. If this is the case, the pastors/leaders can work with you to
reach out to them. Maybe you are passionate about forming a group to reach out to others. If this is
the case, we can also work with you to get things rolling. The idea is instead of just having the
pastors going out to build the development platforms for the church the whole congregation should
contribute to such project by looking around to see what possibilities are available. I have always
thought our congregation members are too busy (with work, family, serving at the church, etc.) so the
pastors need to drive the development-platform-building process. Praise the Lord for revealing to me
that each one of you can and should be involved in this process. Please let me know if you think of
how you and the pastoral staff can work together to build these platforms.
God gave me the above picture as I enter my 3rd year serving at EEC. I am very excited because I
anticipate great things as we launch out (our 2011 theme) Together as One (our 2009 theme) to build
a God pleasing church (our 2010 theme). Please join us in prayer asking God to prepare us for such
journey and prepare to actually give ourselves to take action to fulfill the vision/mission of reaching out
to our target group.
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Hello~ EEC’ers!
Where has the time gone?!
We’ve had a very productive
year – we’ve developed a
website, renovated a new
office in Mongkok, brought in
an assistant pastor, worked
with a school and as we write
this, we have quite a number of
baptismal candidates so thank
you Lord for all of these
provisions.
We have so much to update you
on and hope you enjoy this
edition.
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2. October 2010 ● Issue 9 ● Emmanuel English Church●
Pastor Vicky Lo or a snowman?
Introducing Pastor Vicky Lo – Assistant Pastor
EEC
Grrrrr…………
Hello – it‘s great to be part of the EEC family in the capacity of Assistant Pastor.
I have been worshipping at EEC since 2008 and joined as staff in September 2010
My parents are Vietnamese born Chinese and because of the Vietnamese War, my
parents and other relatives were scattered around in different countries so I lived in
different places in Asia. I was brought up in Taiwan and came back to Hong Kong
when I was 15. After graduating from the University of Hong Kong, I became a history
teacher in a local Hong Kong Secondary School.
During the three years I spent with high school kids, I
discovered this is a really great place for people to get to
know Jesus Christ - when they are still young in high
school. Therefore, I decided to enter into full-time ministry
to serve the youth and I got my Masters degree of Divinity
in the China Graduate School of Theology. After
graduating from the Bible seminary, I served in an
international school as a Christian Worker and right now I
am serving in Emmanuel English Church.
My passion is not only serving the youth but also serving
people from different cultures because I myself am from a
multi-cultural family. During the Vietnamese war, my
relatives were scattered around US, Canada, England and
France. We experienced the pain and tears of moving
around to different places and it made me want to serve
people from different places and I want people to feel that
Emmanuel English Church is their spiritual home in Hong
Kong.
The Bible in Psalm 34:8 says ―Taste and see that the
LORD is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in
him.‖ Would you like to come to our church to get to know
our God and His love more?

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Chris Ng - EEC Summer Intern and now a Queen’s
graduate!
Visitations
Every year we have a returning Igniter
to help out the different ministries in
church. This year we‘ve been blessed
with Chris Ng. Being one of the
founders of the Ignite youth group,
Chris helped with the planning of the
theme and programs of Ignite‘s new
school year. They came up with the
theme ―Prioritizing God‖. Chris also
started the core to take up leading
devotions every during the Monday
Prayer Meeting.
This year‘s Ignite Camp (Believe
Camp) took place in July at the
Breakthrough Camp. The speaker was
Pastor Ho-Ming Tsui flown especially
from Toronto to speak ata this camp.
Chris was able to help the core in
planning and executing this camp
As there were many university
returnees during the summer months,
Chris started the College Fellowship
under the guidance and blessing from
Pastor Dennis. This college group is
still continuing now for the students
studying in Hong Kong.
Another area that Chris helped out was
in worship and worship training. IWT
(Intensive Worship Training) started
last year to train up people interested in
joining the worship team. This year we
had about 20 sign ups who were
trained in different areas such as guitar,
drums, keys, worship leading, harmony
and sound. Many have since signed up
to help out in worship.
January 2010 ● Issue 8 ● Emmanuel English Church●
EEC SUMMER INTERN BAPTISMAL CANDIDATES
Joanne Gui shares her testimony with us…….
Since I was young, I’ve always known about God. I was born into a Christian family
and grew up going to church, so I learnt all about Jesus and I heard all the stories.
I accepted Christ when I was around 7 and at that time, I thought it was normal to
do so. Of course I would accept Christ, because that’s what my parents did, what
my sister did, what my friends did.
In my first few years of being a Christian, my life was no different that it was
before I accepted Jesus. Because I grew up saying my prayers, going to church
and reading the Bible, everything was the same after I had accepted Christ, it was
just a habit, a routine that I went through. It was this way for a few years, and
when I was ten, I found out that I had to move to Hong Kong. I didn’t like change
and I didn’t want to move, to leave my friends or to leave my school. When I came
to Hong Kong, I came to a Christian school where chapels were held weekly,
Christian classes almost every day, and it was all very different from my old
school. Everything around me was of Christian influence, but learning about God all
the time was nothing new to me. My life still went on the same, except I learnt
about Him every day now, instead of just on Sundays.
All my life, I knew God and I believed in him, but I didn’t understand what
believing in Him meant. The summer before I started grade 7, a friend went to a
Christian camp and told me about it. He shared his experience; how he felt God,
how he cried when the pastor prayed over Him because he could just feel God’s
presence, and how great it all felt. This really impacted me because I had never
talked to that friend about God and he was not a person I expected to hear these
kinds of things from, so in that way it was even more encouraging.
I realised that God wasn’t a distant God, not just for big people or adults, but even
for little unimportant children like us. That night was the night I remember
reading the Bible that seriously probably for the first time. Starting then, it was
in my secondary years that I started understanding that God wasn’t just a God far
away watching us, but a personal God. It didn’t happen suddenly and I don’t
remember when it did, but it was a gradual realisation that God was there with me
every minute of every day, and I could trust in Him no matter what.
My relationship with God became a real relationship and not just a routine one, and
saying my prayers became a regular thing throughout the day, not something I had
to say every night so I could sleep. Gospel camps and outreaches at school were
always something to look forward to as we always had guest speakers who would
share their experiences, and those talks always encouraged me to grow in my
relationship with Christ.. Recently, I’ve had lots of reminder of how important
having Christian friends and Christian influences are to encourage and build each
other up, and it is only while writing this testimony that I remembered that it was
my Christian friend’s experience that lit the fire within me, that encouraged me to
have a personal relationship with Christ. Through having a personal relationship
with Jesus, the most important thing I learned is that no matter what happens,
God is with me and everything will be okay. As Psalm 27 says, “The Lord is my light
and my salvation – whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life – of
whom shall I be afraid?” I used to be afraid of a lot of things, and I still am, but
remembering this verse has helped me get through a lot.
God always knows what’s best, even though sometimes it doesn’t seem like it and I
know He brought me to Hong Kong, to my school for a reason: so I could have a
relationship with Him, grow in Him, and serve Him.

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BAPTISMAL CANDIDATESBAPTISMAL CANDIDATES
Peter Zhang shares his testimony with us…….
I was born into a Christian family, and was brought up in church and Sunday School. I knew all
the bible stories by heart. For me, I never had a “decision” moment like most other people did
where I decide to give up everything else and announce the commitment to Christ. The concept
of “Jesus Christ” was very natural to me and I’ve always had Christ in my mind for my whole
life.
And that’s exactly why I felt like something I experienced when I was in 8th
grade was a kind
of a “test” for me. It was the time when I first moved to Shanghai from Guangzhou because of
my father’s job relocation, and I had a hard time adapting to the new community. I was just like
the classic kid that gets bullied everyday: kind of fat and short, wears glasses, gets decent
grades, sucks at sports and doesn’t know how to speak properly.
I still remember clearly how I was trying start the social journey in the school first with the
rest of the newcomers. We had a newcomers’ lunch table just for ourselves, but as time passed
and as they found their own friends, I left to be the only one in that table. When I try to fit
in, the other students would seem to use me instead as a “tool” to make me do things such as
letting them copy homework and what not.
There was especially this gang of people that’d tease me the most. The things they do was more
than just verbal, but more like messing up a chess game, putting a cactus on my seat waiting for
me to sit on, or worst of all, panting me in the classroom and claiming it “this happens to
everybody”. What hurt the most was not the fact that it happened to me, but the fact that
nobody else cared or did anything to help.
At that point, I really wondered if God existed, and if so, why did he let such things happen to
me? I wasn’t exactly mad at God, but I just wondered what I have been doing to make me
deserve all this. I wasn’t able to talk about it to anybody else, and that just make the situation
even worse by holding all the pain by myself.
All the pain from denial and tease of other people eventually stacked up to a giant pile, and I
just couldn’t handle it anymore. One day (about three months after joining the school) I finally
sent an email to my teacher telling about the things that I have been going through in school.
And of course, as a responsible teacher, he immediately had a meeting with me comforting me
while asking the involved students to come in and individually apologized to me. As they did so, I
notice one of the boys was so ashamed of what he did when he realized that he burst into
tears. I recognized him from church fellowships, and suddenly realized that he was probably
just a regular kid who was pressured by peers to join in the “crowd” in bullying. At that
moment, the only thing going through my mind was Jesus telling His disciples to forgive seventy
times seven times. Out of compassion, all the grudges I had in my head was genuinely wiped off
as I took the pack of tissues next to me and gave it to him. Apparently the scene was so
touching that the non-Christian Students Affairs Officer standing had tears when he
witnessed the scene.
After that, I had a talk with that particular person. He confirmed what I noticed about how he
was only following the crowd for the sake of doing so, and how he told me that he was willing to
change. We became true friends after then, telling each other about the concerns we have and
helping each other.
As I look back, I realized how it is indeed a miracle how God was able to teach me to genuinely
forgive and forget about all the wrongdoings of other people. Moreover, he reminded me that
Christians live through sufferings so that we can be a living testimony to what Christ is capable
of doing. In this case, God has used to me to show the forgiveness of Christ to the Students
Affairs Officer, and I’m just extremely and humbly glad that I could be a tool for Christ.
Peter
Philip
Joanne
Ouch!!
my knee

5. October 2010 ● Issue 9 ● Emmanuel English Church●
When I moved back in Hong Kong in 1997, I asked my dad whether I can live in one of the apartment unit he owes. He took us
(Joanne and I) to look at a unit in the Mongkok area. We loved the place even though it was in very bad shape but having the
opportunity to live in a ‗rent-free‘ unit in the heart Mongkok, we immediately thought of how we should renovate the place and make it
our home. However, after further discussion with dad he suggested we live elsewhere for various reasons. The unit was then left
vacant for the next 13 years!
Since we had to live with Joanne‘s godmother, we never thought of bringing up the idea of living in the Mongkok unit when we moved
back to Hong Kong in 2008. It was somewhat interesting during a conversation one day, my dad brought up the idea of giving the unit
away to a charity. I don‘t know why but I asked him if he would give it to a seminary because I know they have a need to find housing
for some students. My father is not a believer but he immediately asked me to find out if the seminary would take the unit or not. After
a few rounds of discussion, it was disappointing to hear the seminary decided not to take the unit. I then asked dad if he would
consider giving it to a church. Again, he did not hesitate in asking me to find out from the church whether they would take the unit.
This is how EEC got the Mongkok unit at 71 Argyle Street.
Even though it is an old building (built in the 60s) with no elevator (you have to walk 84 steps to reach the unit), it is located in the heart
of Mongkok. We went through a 15-week renovation process where every inch of the unit was fixed up. We have since moved our
church office to the unit. A couple of small groups are using the unit regularly with some other groups using it once awhile. We are in
the process of adding some tables so that students (from EEC) can come to study at the place if needed. We are also looking into
setting up a library and see how else we can use the unit to reach out to others.
I personally could not figure out why God provided the unit to EEC. However, as we started to use the unit more, I can see great
potential for the church to have a unit in such location. Let‘s continue to pray and seek how God wants us to use the unit for His
Kingdom.
God’s Provision – Mongkok Flat… by Rev. Dennis Ng

6. October 2010 ● Issue 9 ● Emmanuel English Church●
The theme for Ignite this year is ―PG.‖. What is PG? We need Parental Guidance? Oh…no no... ―PG‖ means Prioritizing God in our life.
We all know that God is important and we want to Put HIM as the priority in our life, but most of the time, we find this idea is only head
knowledge more than something that we can take into action.
Therefore, we want to go back to the Bible to see what it means to prioritize God. We try to explore the theme PG from 3 areas:
1) WHO IS GOD? What you think about when you think about God.
Rev Dennis led discussions on watching Louie Giglio‘s talk ―seeing God as a perfect Father‖. Louie Giglio told us we may respond
to God differently because we may see God from different perspective. Yet, God longs to be known as a Perfect Father. Through
Jesus Christ, this relationship -- and the promise of a Perfect Father's blessing -- is available to everyone. Through spiritual birth,
we all can see, know, and enjoy God as a Perfect Father. The Ignite core members also produced video clips interviewing different
people about their thoughts about God. By the end, we praised God for who He is and prayed for the desire to know Him more.
2) WHO AM I?
The bible says we are created in God‘s image. Prioritizing God is a journey that we want to be more like Christ. Pastor Vicky led us
to discuss the characters we want to be like God and we also prayed for the struggles that we couldn‘t be more like God.
3) WHAT SHOULD WE DO?
This is the part you couldn‘t miss. We invited different speakers to share their thoughts with us.
Oct 29th Rev. Stephen Durie : how we respond to God when we receive His grace
Nov 5: Dr. Louis King Yip : My God is the King
Nov 12: Vanessa Manchester (ICS teacher): Balance things between youth group, church and family
Dec 3: Mr. Best (CAIS teacher): My God is eternal.
Of course you can‘t miss our Christmas celebration on Dec 17. We will present the Nativity story through games and Christmas
Carols, and our core leaders will also share their stories with God on their day!!
Ignite Prayer Meetings
Thanks for Auntie Ruth‘s hospitality in sharing her home every Monday for our Ignite prayer meeting. Our body and soul are
always satisfied after joining the prayer meeting. Auntie Ruth cooks delicious food and dessert for us. Also, bubble tea has
become a highlight before we start our prayer. 
The core leader takes turns to share with us a devotion passage before we pray and brief us on our upcoming programs in Ignite.
We also have a deeper sharing about our joy and struggles in our life. In the coming prayer meetings, we also focus on praying for
our friends from ICS, CAIS or other schools who do not have a home church or do not go to youth group. We pray that EEC will
become their home church and Ignite will embrace them in God‘s love.
Ignite: Keeping it in PG by Pastor Vicky Lo

7. October 2010 ● Issue 9 ● Emmanuel English Church●
I remember during my basketball playing days, I would ‗get back to the basics‘ when my game was a bit off. Getting back to
shoot few hundred free-throws would help me regain my shooting touch. Getting back to running drills would help me
reshape my mindset to play the game with my feet rather than just my hands. While the stuff we do as we ‗get back to the
basics‘ is the same old stuff, it works to reshape us for a better performance.
EEC has spent time pondering upon the theme of ‗Together as One‘ in 2009. Since I was new to the church then, we set
our focus to come together as a team as we looked to march forward in the future. For 2010, the theme is ‗Building a God-
Pleasing Church.‘ The focus is for us to reshape our personal walk with God and become convinced preaching the Gospel
is a calling for all of us. As we will soon enter 2011, we are preparing to ‗Launch Out‘ to touch more lives and reach out to
more people. In order for us give ourselves a chance to make this happen, we must return to the basics to develop a firm
footing before and as we launch out. We MUST get on our knees (corporately in particular) and rely on prayer as the pillar
to support all that we will be doing.
EEC has a weekly church prayer meeting on Wednesday night at the TST chapel but only few can come. We realize work
and family obligation quite often make it difficult for people to join the church prayer meeting but EEC will not give up on the
spiritual discipline of praying as a corporate body. We would like to invite the whole congregation to commit to pray for the
church on every Wednesday. You can pray during your quiet time, at a gathering with other congregation members, when
you are riding the bus/MTR to work, etc. It does not matter when and where as long as we come together as one to make
time on Wednesday to pray for EEC.
We want to start this prayer movement before we launch programs because prayer is more important—it is one of the
foundations we must built our ministries upon. We encourage you to sign up with the pastors by giving us your name and
email address. We will then email you the prayer items every week. The next thing for you to do is to set aside time to pray
for the church on Wednesday. As a member of the EEC congregation, we all should be praying for this body. Let‘s get off
our seat and PUSH (Pray Until Something Happen) for the church.
There is one thing worth noting—while this approach can become a way to mobilize more of us to pray for EEC, all of us
should still try to make it to the church prayer meeting at the TST chapel. There is nothing more blessed than to be able to
pray with each other in person for the community that God has built for us.
Thinking about……by Rev. Dennis Ng
Prayer Requests
1. Pray for the congregation to develop a deeper passion towards God’s words and
prayer.
2. Pray for a positive respond from the congregation towards the Prayer Movement that
began in October.
3. Pray for the congregation to give their all to ‘Launch Out’ to grow EEC spiritually and
physically.
4. Pray for God’s provision of more Deacons in the upcoming years.
5. Pray for wisdom for the Council to think through our facility needs.