Happy 2022! Thank you Lord for your Grace and Provision in the past year. May God shower His blessings upon us and our dear clients, supporters and staff, to have good health, happiness and prosperity in the new year.
You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.   Psalms 65:11

Pray that God will continue to give wisdom and guidance to our Board Members and Management team, to increase Christian Action’s capacity to serve more needy and underprivileged people groups.

There will be a few new staff members reporting to work. Pray that they will adapt to the working environment and working pace quickly and become part of the team to serve the community.

Please pray for the roll out of our new programmes in Qinghai for the needy and disadvantaged children. Pray that our services can fill the needs of those children according to God’s will.

Our Yuen Long Training Centre was opened in November last year. Thank God for giving us an opportunity to serve the Yuen Long community. New electronic doors will be installed, let us pray for a smooth operation at the centre that will enable us to provide a safe and comfortable environment for job seeking trainees.

Our Season of Love Charity Drive – Healthy Nuts and Dried Nuts Sale is in full swing until the end of March 2022. We want to lift up our charity booth and the whole campaign to the Lord, asking Him to sustain our ministries in both Hong Kong and Qinghai. Pray for continuous publicity and referrals from Friends of Christian Action, to continue to support our programmes and to share our vision.

Tomorrow, clients of our Mong Kok Service Centre will help in a Flag Day of a partner NGO to raise funds. Pray for good weather and a smooth event, pray that more people will donate to support the services for the vulnerable.

Christian & Missionary Alliance Sun Kei Church has held their Sunday Services at our Community Hall since last mid-October. We are grateful that their youth pastoral team will start their Choi Wan Youth Growth Project at our Choi Wan Headquarters today. Pray for a fruitful collaboration and that the gospel will spread in the community.

Pray the global COVID situation would ease, allowing airlines to resume normal operations so that refugees who have been waiting to resettle can begin travelling as soon as possible. Pray also that different countries will continue to increase and accept refugees so we can send more of our clients to their final destination.

For the coming two days, there will be a special “Career Training” (「Train‧職」) from the Employment Retraining Board (ERB) class at our Choi Wan Centre on Flowering Arrangement, Beauty and Property Management. Pray that the information provided can help attendees better understand career prospects in these sectors and the retraining can help them re-enter the job market.

A Basic Health Massage Workshop co-organized by HK YWCA Jockey Club Sham Shui Po Integrated Social Service Centre will be held today. Pray that attendees can learn how to stay healthy and learn how to relax in this hectic city.

Around a month ago, a teenager committed suicide by jumping off from the building of our On Tai Service Centre. This is the third child who committed suicide over four months in the same housing estate. Please pray the spirit of the Lord will comfort the deceased teenager’s parents and family. Pray that we can reach such children before they get so desperate and end their lives.

For 2 years, we have had to postpone the Official Opening Ceremony of Christian Action’s New Headquarters at Choi Wan. We have finally rescheduled a small Ceremony for tomorrow. We are so grateful for the strong support from our donors, clients, Board Members, staff and volunteers. Special thanks to our Lord who has been leading us. He has always been providing what we need to allow us to continue to serve the underprivileged.

Continue to pray for a successful Christian Action Celebration Ceremony today. Pray that the event goes smoothly and that our guests will see the Grace of God in our Headquarters and will continue to join us in serving the community. We wish we could invite more people but due to the quarantine social distancing policy, our hands are tied. Apologies.
But he said to me,"My grace is sufficient for you..."
   (2 Corinthians 12:9a)

Today, there will be a webinar, co-organized by our Sheung Shui Service Centre and Tai Po and North District Caring Action Team. The topic is Chinese Medicine-Vitality and Health. As this will be an online event, more people can join us. Pray that the event will go smoothly, and attendees will feel the love and care from us even during the pandemic.

Our Migrant Domestic Workers Centre (MDW) plans to conduct a road show series to introduce our service and to distribute a questionnaire related to the International Women's Day 2022 theme "break the bias" among the Indonesian migrant worker communities. The first road show will commence today. Pray that our effort can help the MDW community to understand their rights and that the public will break their bias, as our services are based on the example of Jesus Christ who came to serve all people, regardless of their age, gender, nationality and religion.

Pray in Jesus' name that the virus would recede soon and that people can return to their normal lives. Many people who wish to have a job become inactive because they cannot see any opportunity to search for a job successfully. Pray also for our donors will continue to give to the Qinghai’s work for the needs are many!

This week (18-25 Jan) is the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The event will be attended by some two hundred clergy and staff members from different Christian organizations. Please pray for greater visible unity of Christ’s church. This year’s theme is from "We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship him."   (Matthew 2:2).

Our Sheung Shui Office will hold an Image Building and Social Etiquette workshop for our clients this morning. Please pray for the attendees will not just build up their external image but also to build up their self-confidence, so that they can be better integrated into the community.

Pray that God will work mightily in the minds and hearts of the new LegCo members, so that the needs of the refugee community could be better heard and served, specifically with regard to the subsidy amounts, acceptable housing, and permission for extended employment.

The band developed from the Child Development Fund Batch 7 (CDFB7) will be performing in the Closing Ceremony tomorrow. We are thankful that a church and a tutor were willing to support a 10-people band with venue and time for training sessions. Pray that the bonding among them will continue to be strengthened, most importantly, they will be able to stay in the church and build a good Christian life, to develop a closer relationship with Jesus Christ.

Let’s continue to pray for the Closing Ceremony of the CDFB7 (Yuen Long, Kwun Tong and Tseung Kwan O) which will be held today at our Headquarters at Choi Wan and also online. Praise the Lord! The CDF project has blessed over 300 low-income families and networked with approximately 150 mentors from different churches in the past three years. May the Lord bless the participants and the closing ceremony which will witness the transformation of the mentees and mentors.

Today is Unity Sunday. This is the climax of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity programme when churches are encouraged to exchange pulpits with ministers of other denominations and preach on unity. Let all Christians turn to Christ in unity and in prayer so that Christ “as a morning star rises and lights our hearts”   (2 Peter 1:19).

Pray that God will give us wisdom and show us the direction for our UK office. Pray that our UK supporters continue to support our ministries through different channels.

Social Welfare Department (SWD) will conduct an audit at our On Tai Service Centre today and tomorrow. Hope that the audit operation of SWD is smooth and positive, that our service is up to standard and benefits the community.

Give thanks!
Our Long Ping Service Centre received 120 gift boxes from Box of Hope. Contents are children’s masks and story books for low-income families through churches and the CDF project. This enabled the children in poverty to have the chance to experience the joy of receiving a gift. Pray the Lord blesses our caring community and churches.

As the 7th Batch of the CDF project is coming to an end in March 2022, pray that students take the opportunity to wisely utilize their targeted savings accumulated in the past 2 years to fulfill their planned short term and long term goals. Pray that what they have learned about life planning and financial management will benefit them for life.

Pray we all know how to give our burdens to God so that we can have good rest and enjoy this coming long holiday with grateful hearts.
God said "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”   (Matthew 11:28-30)

Pray that refugees receive permission as quickly as possible from the Immigration Department to stay in HK. Most clients have been waiting now for over a decade to get their refugee status. Pray that God will move the hearts of the immigration officers responsible for such case evaluations, pray for discernment and compassion for them.

Pray that staff at CA will remain motivated and steadfast in doing God’s work. May he grant us peace and keep us healthy and strong to continue our service to the community.

Today is Chinese New Year’s Eve. In this traditional festive season of family reunions, pray all Christian families will unite as one in God’s Love to bring harmony to the HK community.