Ministry Report Index 事工報告索引
CSC 粵語堂
ESC 英語堂
MSC 国语堂
Churchwide 全教會事工
Administration Committee 行政委員會
ESC Local Outreach Ministry
Local Outreach Ministry (6 members)
Coordinator :
Ming Her 賀明皓
Members :
Jeremy Zung
Ministry Description
Mission Statement
To motivate and equip brothers and sisters to become effective witnesses of Christ in their sphere of influence through their lifestyle.
Goals
To reach the seekers through Evangelistic Bible Studies (EBS).
To provide and facilitate training in lifestyle evangelism.
To provide resources and assistance in evangelistic efforts.
To establish partnership with local evangelical para-church organizations.
Areas of Ministry
EBS
To promote and conduct EBS.
To train EBS leaders.
Training and Mobilization
To identify suitable training programs and organizations which can help ESC meet their needs.
Resources
To set up an evangelistic resource centre.
To promote the resources and make them available for easy usage.
Community Service
To engage the community alongside brothers and sisters in a compassionate and gospel-centered manner
2023 Ministry Report
The goals of the ministry group for the Year 2023
To cultivate Christians who authentically imagine and enter into participation in God’s mission in their workplaces, homes, neighborhoods and world;
To promote biblical knowledge, passion and commitment for evangelism as integral to worship and discipleship
Sharing stories about evangelistic conversations
Working with teaching ministry, develop a new branch of knowledge to equip brothers/sisters to share the Gospel including courses like “conducting spiritual conversations” or “workplace evangelism”
To reach seekers through Evangelistic Bible Studies (EBS)
To keep watch and inform the church of local outreach opportunities in our neighbouring communities
To set up an evangelism resource centre (including various packaged courses), to support intentional evangelistic teaching efforts
The highlights of the activities for achieving the goals
Purchased and distributed 40 ESV Bibles to congregation for sharing with neighbours
Purchased the evangelism video series “Jesus the Game Changer”
Organized six training sessions on conducting spiritual conversations for Contagious Faith with Pastor Lane Davis
Formulated a Contagious Faith Whatsapp group to share regularly evangelism practices
Delivered two teaching sessions on workplace evangelism with Pastor Lane Davis
Organized a lunch to support Street Leader Summer Training for Urban Promise
Conducted an in-house evangelism survey to ascertain evangelism interests, readiness, target population, current practices, obstacles and areas of training needed for evangelism
Purchased >100 tracts available for church members to give to neighbours
Conducted a weekly evangelistic Bible study
Organized a weekly badminton fellowship group
Prayer walk July 20, 2023 with Tibetan ministry group in Little Tibet
Several ESC members volunteered and worked with CSC LOM on the Yonge Street Busking Evangelism event
At least 3 ESC members volunteered at and spoke to newcomers at CSC LOM’s winter festival
At least 1 ESC member assisted in preparation of Christmas gift boxes for CSC LOM
Hymn singing group convened ~10 times in 2023 and joined with International Students Fellowship on Dec 2, 2023 to make dumplings together
The results and some forward looking sharing
3-5 more regular newcomers have been attending evangelistic Bible studies or other church ministries
Forward Looking Sharing
Video series “Jesus the Game Changer” to start up in 2024
Plans to engage Matthew House refugees, International Student Ministry group, and the Iranian/Persian community in 2024