Then Jesus came to them and said… Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you… (Matthew 28: 18-20)
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Jesus’ teachings help us to live missional lives, sharing the Good News of Christ Jesus in all walks of life – in the home, workplace, at school, and on the mission field too. We are all witnesses to the abiding love, power and faithfulness of God in our lives.
Watch our video, Being missional at Union Church.
Union Church partners with over 20 Hong Kong-based and international organisations who are committed to fulfilling the Great Commission through evangelising, compassion, and discipleship. All partners are selected through a process based on prayer, relationship and thorough vetting. Organisations identified as Friends of Union Church are not currently on our list of Ministry Partners; however, we have close and long-standing relationships with these groups.
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Alpha offers the opportunity for people to explore the Christian faith, ask questions and share their point of view. If done in an open and friendly way, lives can be transformed.
Top needs
Alpha is praising and praying for the following:
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Union Church prayer partner for Alpha: Patrick Wilson (English), Stephen Shum (Chinese)
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Chung King Ministry serves as the hands and feet of Christ in outreach to the elderly, the poor and the asylum seekers from many nations
Watch Chung King Ministry videoTop needs
Pray that Chung King Ministry reaches the poor, the elderly, the marginalised with the love and hope of Christ. Pray that all resources are made available to CKM and that they can continue to provide over 100 hot meals a day to those in need.Learn how to get involved
Visit with Pastor Samuel and his wife Shlivya at Meet Our Ministry Partners, Union Church youth room, Sunday, 31 July 2022, 10:45-11:15am. Visit their ministry in Chungking Mansions on Friday evenings for a time of worship and prayer. Union Church prayer partner for Chung King Ministry: Nick Appel
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HOLF aims to provide lifelong care in a Christian family setting for those children and adults with moderate to severe intellectual and physical disabilities. HOLF also seeks to be a loving home for aging parents who have dedicated their lives to caring for their special-needs child.
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Union Church prayer partner for HOLF: Simone Loke
Home of Loving Faithfulness website
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Young Life began its story in Hong Kong in 2014, and has established a thriving ministry that partners with schools, churches, and other organizations to impact teenagers, young mothers, and this city with community, mentorship, and the hope of Christ.
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Inner City Ministries engages the South Asian community, to equip them and bring life transformation through Christian Ministry.
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Union Church prayer partner for Inner City Ministries: Ester Li Chung
Inner City Ministries websiteImpact for missions
Kun Sun helps prisoners, rehabilitated persons, and their families experience a rebuilding of life and reconciliation through proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and manifestation of Christ's love.
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Union Church prayer partner for Kun Sun prison ministry: Nick Appel
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LTS is one of Hong Kong’s preeminent seminaries, serving not only students from Hong Kong and China, but also those from Southeast Asia, greater Asia, many of whom worship at Union Church.
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Union Church prayer partner for LTS:
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They are focused on praying for our city - Hong Kong, building relationships and starting Discovery Groups among people who don’t yet know Jesus. They do this over fantastic food, in restaurants, people’s homes or online. As they do this, they are seeing people discover a relationship with Jesus and are choosing to become disciples of him.
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Union Church prayer partner for Praxeis:
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St. Barnabas' Society and Home brings God’s love and hope to the poor, homeless and elderly.
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Union Church prayer partner for SBSH: Emilie Banfield
St. Barnabas' Society and Home website
Watch our video about Union Church's 30+ year long partnership with St. Barnabas' Society and Home
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Sons & Daughters helps those caught in sexual exploitation to reclaim a life of love, family, and freedom. They actively seek and develop relationships with men and women involved in the sex industry.
Top needs
Resources for fitting out the new Promise House - looking for interior designers and contractors.
Also volunteers! They need bakers to prepare items to pass out during outreach, and volunteers to go into different districts of Hong Kong and develop relationships with women and men involved in the sex industry. They also need volunteers for their drop-in centre to befriend and disciple people they meet during outreach. They hold classes of all sorts at the drop-in centre (e.g., Bible study, Alpha, exercise, cooking, sewing, computer skills, language). If you have a talent or skill you’d like to share, they could use you. They need your prayer support as well! And please consider supporting Restore, their social enterprise (https://www.restoreshop.org/) when shopping for a gift.
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SALT is dedicated to creating Biblically sound materials that are tailor made for its target audiences so that nationals become the primary teachers equipping church leaders.
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Union Church prayer partner for ADM/SALT: Dale Weathington
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Bawing Church is bringing people to Christ and discipling Christian leaders in Mindanao, Philippines. Union Church has had a thriving partnership with Bawing Church for decades.
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Union Church prayer partner for Bawing Church: Dennis Hopton
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To make Christ known and intercede for the community.
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Union Church prayer partner for Bawing Church: Dennis Hopton
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Desert Rose is a Mongolian NGO with an emergency shelter for young women.
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Union Church prayer partner for Desert Rose: Jeff Cheung
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Its Vision 2033 aims to see that the Word of God is recorded and freely provided in every language that needs it by the year 2033, working to fulfill Jesus’ Great Commission in this generation.
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Pray for Vision 2033 can be completed. Pray for unity of Hong Kong churches, and churches worldwide, as we participate in the ONE2025 campaign.
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Union Church prayer partner for FCBH Asia: Emilie Banfield
Faith Comes By Hearing website
Watch the video that updates the partnership between Faith Comes By Hearing and Union Church:
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FCOP International is a church planting movement that cares for widows, orphans, and separated children in need.
Top needs
Prayers and practical assistance that the ministry can support itself by achieving self-sufficiency in rice farming.
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Union Church prayer partner for FCOP International: Dale Weathington
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Flourishing Future partners with families to sustain them amidst physical, financial and emotional hardship. Flourishing Future addresses needs brought on by COVID-19, other medical requirements, orphan care, family hunger and education.
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Union Church prayer partner for Flourishing Future: Jeff Cheung
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ICM has been providing help, inspiring hope, and creating change for families living in extreme poverty in the Philippines since 1992.
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Union Church prayer partner for ICM: Nick Appel
International Care Ministries (ICM) website
Watch the video about ICM's pastors' network and Union Church's partnership:
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International China Concern is a Christian development organization that provides love, hope and opportunity to children with disabilities and strives to end abandonment by keeping families together.
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Union Church prayer partner for ICC: Dale Weathington
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This Yangon-based church evangelises the local Buddhist community and disciples believers. They serve their local community and members in need with compassion and practical assistance. Through their preschool ministry, they teach children the good news about Jesus, and this provides further outreach opportunities to entire families.
Top needs
Prayer support for the political chaos and violence in Myanmar. May God grant them peace. Prayers for personal protection for Pastor Vum, his family, church members, and preschool families, from persecution, violence, and the pandemic. Praise that the church and preschool have opened.
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SAT-7 provides churches and Christians of the Middle East and North Africa an opportunity to witness to Jesus Christ through inspirational, informative and educational television services.
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Union Church prayer partner for SAT-7: Nick Appel
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Shekinah Alliance is a Bible college in Buayan, General Santos, Philippines, that trains and equips Christian leaders.
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Union Church prayer partner for Shekinah Alliance: Dennis Hopton
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Whole Word Institute (WWIN) believes in the power of the Word of God to transform lives and communities and that the key to effective transformation is personal engagement with the Word of God. The organisation and its partners aim to eliminate the Old Testament gap so that the whole bible is available to everyone in every language. It trains mother tongue translators in biblical Hebrew so that they will have begun OT translation into every language by 2033.
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Please pray for:
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Union Church prayer partner for Whole Word Institute (WWIN) Foundation: Emilie Banfield
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China Coast Community is a unique care and attention home in Hong Kong. It provides residential care for English speaking elderly persons regardless of their financial circumstances.
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Crossroads is a non-profit organisation serving global need. Crossroads believes that, in a broken world that sees too much suffering, they should do all they can to link those who are in need with those who can provide help. They do this through Global Distribution, Global X-perience, Global Hand, and Global Handicrafts.
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The Hong Kong Church Network for the Poor (HKCNP) is a citywide network that serves the poor. Through collaboration across churches, Christian NGOs, and other Christian organisations, HKCNP helps to improve the physical, emotional and spiritual well-being of poor people and break the cycle of inter-generational poverty.
HKCNP websiteImpact for missions
ImpactHK’s goal is to provide the homeless with a connection to friends, society and a safe and comfortable home.
ImpactHK websiteImpact for missions
KIDS International Ministry (KIDS) is located in the Philippines and is working to break the cycle of poverty in the communities. KIDS is loving, teaching, and serving kids in the Philippines at two locations - Manila and Tacloban.
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LOVE 21 is a charity dedicated to bettering the lives of those living with Down syndrome and autism in Hong Kong through physical activity and nutrition.
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Mother’s Choice is a local charity serving the many children without families and pregnant teenagers in Hong Kong, giving hope to vulnerable girls and babies. Mother’s Choice’s vision is to see every child in a loving family.
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The Amber Foundation's mission it is to provide support for a variety of under-served communities in Hong Kong and South Asia. Its key initiatives are the EMPOWER project and the Toiletries project.
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New Sight serves in the Republic of Congo to restore and protect sight, transforming lives and communities in the region
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Union Church prayer partner for New Sight Limited: Po Cheung
Our heart is for the city - to go out and love and serve a hurting world.
BLESS THE CITY, our biggest outreach event of the year for our community - joining God in His work of loving all creation.
U-N-I Connect: Chill and Grill Sunday for University Students - great opportunity to meet new friends and connect with our church family.
It is our prayer that individuals and our church generously give time, talent and financial resources to our Ministry Partners and projects – because He has been so gracious and generous with us.
You may give directly to our Ministry Partners, or you may donate through Union Church to any Partners on our approved Local and International Partner list. Follow the instructions for giving here and identify your preferred Ministry Partner.
US taxpayers may wish to make tax-deductible donations through Friends of Hong Kong Charities, Inc.
Watch our video Giving to Missions.
We want to be effective and good stewards of God’s provision. Union Church has established strong structure, accountability, transparency and governance.
The church’s Committee of Management (COM) and the Deacons are directly involved in the work of the Missions committee, and COM oversees and approves Missions policies and practices.
All Ministry Partners go through a detailed vetting process to promote impact and effectiveness.
For further information, please contact us.
