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The Bicol BulletinVolume 1, Issue 7 - October 2003
"Hong Kong Ministry— A New, Unique Challenge" by Joanna Allen
At the present, there are 175,000 Filipinos working in Hong
Kong! Most of these are women who are there working as Domestic Helpers. Each
week they have one day off and on that day they gather in public parks and just
sit and spend time together. They talk, sing, play cards, eat Filipino food and
speak their native dialect. Many of these ladies have very bad working
conditions, so their “day off” is almost an escape from real life! Among these ladies, there is a small core group from our BMA churches in the Philippines that are working with Pastor Jo Jo Vallejera to reach out to other Filipinos. Pastor Jo Jo has been elected by the BMA of the Philippines as our first International Missionary! Hopefully, within the next few months, he and his family will be permanently located in Hong Kong. Please join us in praying for this family. They have an enormous job ahead of them! During our few days in Hong Kong and China, we met with the core group for fellowship and also worship services. We spent time in those parks meeting some of the Filipinos, passing out tracks, sharing Christ, and praying with them. We also spent some time exploring Hong Kong for future ministry possibilities. (And of course, we had a little bit of shopping time!) As we visited with many of the ladies there, my heart
broke for them. Many of them have husbands and children back home in the
Philippines that they may not see for several years at a time. As a wife and
mother, I can’t imagine living apart from my family for that long. As I
struggled to understand why these ladies would leave their home to go work in
Please pray for our core group there, for Pastor Jo Jo and his family, and for the BMA Philippines as we reach out beyond our borders into China and other countries in Southeast Asia, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Vietnam. But we especially ask that you pray for the thousands of Filipina ladies in Hong Kong to realize that their greatest need is a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. To see more pictures from our recent trip to China go to our Photo Galleries!
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Throughout Asia is an outreach ministry of the BMA of the Philippines that
utilizes Filipinos that are located throughout all of Southeast Asia to plant
churches and reach the people of those countries. CTA is in its beginning
stages, and part of the purpose of our recent trip to Hong Kong was to get on
the field and try to discover what will be the best way to reach Hong Kong for
Christ.
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country, the Lord opened my eyes to this fact: No matter the reason of why they
are there, there are thousands of Filipinos working in Hong Kong that need a
Savior! And it’s our job to reach them!
missions, and many other outreach points. We are excited about the progress
that has been made in expanding the vision and ministry of these churches!
Our pastors and laymen have caught the vision for planting churches in every
community, but there are unique obstacles that must be crossed in order to
reach this goal. Because Filipinos have always been a seafaring people,
people groups are not divided by bodies of water, as you might think, but
rather by the mountain ranges that partition each island. Because of this,
there are communities along the coastlines that have no entry except by
sea. These communities are referred to as inter-coastal areas. We are
reaching out to a few of these communities, but there is potential for
ministry in many more.