Leaders and employees face immense challenges in the workplace. These days, pandemic-related disruption to business models, threats to organisational success, and eroding well-being of employees are genuine stresses at work -- and at home.
In this context, how can we not only persevere but thrive creatively at work?
Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. ~ Romans 12:1 (The Message)
Union Church's Faith in the Marketplace ministry helps employees and leaders align around God’s vision for the organisation. Together, we can bless our companies and organisations by applying an eternal perspective to our workplace integrity, relationships and decisions.
This ministry aims to help everyone in the workplace:
Together, we can transform the marketplace for God.
As we face the prolonged upheaval to our lives and work caused by COVID-19 and the associated challenges of remote working and isolation from colleagues and community, we can look forward with hope and contribute to our organisations from an eternal perspective.
Recent sermons on marketplace ministry at Union Church provide the biblical basis, God-inspired direction, and practical encouragement to practice your faith in the workplace. Watch our recent series on faith in the marketplace.
Sunday, 31 January – Faith in the Marketplace, Rev Dr Michele Bland
Sunday, 7 February – Life and Legacy, Dr David Wong
Sunday, 14 February – A New Breed, Rev Dr John Snelgrove
Our first panel discussion debuted on the 10th of February 2021. This interactive session featured three workplace ministry leaders who shared their testimonies of living out Christian fellowship and witness at work. Read our post-event review of the discussions led by panelists Ken Lung, Patricia Lau and Anthony Lo, together with moderator, Andrew Lo.
Ken Lung, Octopus Cards Limited
Ken was born in Hong Kong, raised in Singapore, and lived in New Zealand where he came to Jesus. Currently he is Head of Corporate Communications at Octopus Cards. Ken is an advocate of workplace evangelism who seeks to bring the Good News to the marketplace in creative ways. Ken has been an active member of The Vine Church since 2009. He has volunteered as an advisor to the Vine’s NGO arm, Branches of Hope, and is a board member of HOPE International, a global Christian-based microfinance organisation that serves the most underserved.
Patricia Lau, Executive Director, Alpha Hong Kong
Patricia was born in Hong Kong, studied engineering in the UK, and has held various leadership roles in the finance industry, most recently as Managing Director at Credit Suisse. She came to faith through Alpha 14 years ago and is passionate about seeing God's hand at work in the marketplace. Since July last year, God has led her to take up the role as Executive Director of Alpha Hong Kong. She is thrilled to join Alpha in this unprecedented season and desires to see every believer in Hong Kong being equipped and empowered to spread the Good News. Patricia worships at Island ECC.
Anthony Lo, Lawyers Christian Fellowship
Anthony has been passionate about serving God and expanding His Kingdom in the marketplace. God guided him and other colleagues to start a workplace fellowship when he was a trainee, and led him in his service at the Lawyers Christian Fellowship to bring the Gospel and God's encouragement to the legal profession. The fellowship now numbers over 700 members. Anthony is Legal Counsel at BNP Paribas, and he worships at Bountiful Grace Church which is a church plant of North Point Alliance Church.
Andrew Lo, Moderator
Andrew serves in a discussion group for his Bible studies and is actively involved in workplace ministry. He is a facilitator of the Halftime Institute which helps leaders create a meaningful next season in their lives while also making an impact in the marketplace. Andrew is also CEO, Asia Pacific, Invesco. He worships at Union Church where he has previously served on the Committee of Management.
Max De Pree Center for Leadership
The Marketplace Ministry Handbook: A Manual for Work, Money
Exiles on Mission
The Other Six Days: Vocation, Work, and Ministry in Biblical Perspective
God at Work: Living every day with purpose
Thank you for being "salt and light" in your workplace! Our team is here to pray with you, encourage and equip you as you adapt to ever-changing conditions in the workplace. Reach out as together we bring the Kingdom of God to offices and work sites throughout Hong Kong.
