HONG KONG WAS OUR NEXT STOP

Victoria Habor, Hong Kong

Our next five or six days were spent in Hong Kong.  By contrast, Hong Kong seemed so much cleaner and more prosperous than what we witnessed in Manila.   When we looked out of our hotel window in Hong Kong, we saw neatly dressed men and women with their brief cases, etc.  Our days in Hong Kong were very interesting.  We were there a couple of weeks following the Chinese New Year and many of their decorations and colored lights were still in place. 

We were not in Hong Kong on a Sunday, but we did tour several churches.  Some of them met in high rise buildings, others met in an auditorium on the second or third floor of a building that housed a store on the ground level.  We also toured a radio studio where programs were prepared for airing over FEBC radio.  We went through a day care and the Alliance Bible Seminary, which was on an island. 

Thankfully, I was spared from what could have been a serious injury or health issue on our walk up the sidewalk which led to the Alliance Bible Seminary.  Alongside the cement walkway was an open drain with some mighty filthy water.  It was a cement trough about a foot wide and six inches or so deep.  I was taking in the sites and not paying too  much attention as to where I was walking.  I was one step away from ending up in that trough, when Leona grabbed me.  The Lord only knows what injuries or infection I was spared from.

Once again we enjoyed a dinner and a wonderful evening with the missionaries serving in Hong Kong.  There was so much to see in Hong Kong and our days went by all too quickly. I was amazed by the numerous camera shops which I saw.  It seemed like there were at least a half dozen of these stores in every block.

We are thankful that we were still in our 50's when we went on this tour of the Far East.  Don't think we could keep up the pace if we were to go today. 

While in Hong Kong we had a one day trip to Macau and China, traveling by a hydroplane boat to Macau and then by bus to Chung Shan China.  Chung Shan was the birthplace of Sun Yat Sen, who is referred to as as the "Father of the Nation."  He was instrumental in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty and became the first president of the Republic of China when it was  founded in 1912.

Enjoying the trip to Macau & China via a hydroplane boat


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Image
OTHERS WHO HAD INPUT INTO MY SPIRITUAL & PASTORAL JOURNEY There are many people on planet earth that have heard the gospel or the scriptures explained from only one person.  It may be the single lady missionary that visits their village.  It may be the one program in their language airing from a Christian shortwave radio station.  There are undoubtedly millions of Christians whose biblical knowledge and learning has come from very few individuals or limited sources. I don't know why I have been so abundantly blessed or privileged when it comes to having biblical input from so many.  From my early years to  the present, I have personally heard hundreds of Christian leaders, pastors, evangelists, missionaries, Bible college professors, musicians and Christian business people who have helped, encouraged, challenged and convicted me in my spiritual journey.  It was always a thrill when I had the opportunity to hear some of the days outstanding Chri...
Read more
Image
ADDITIONAL MINISTRIES PASSED ON TO ME Dan in his first office at Sevenoaks Since Sevenoaks Alliance Church had grown from about 400 to 2,000 under the leadership of Pastor Bill Goetz, secretaries and pastors were scattered all over the church building.  Rooms which had been designated for other purposes were made into offices.  My first office was tucked away under the balcony of the youth centre.  My desk was immediately under the balcony risers.  Padding had been placed over my desk, lest I hit my head on a riser when getting up from my desk.  My room was quiet, out of the way, with hardly anyone ever walking by my door.  Al Runge was pastor for four months, before he ever found my office.  Sometimes when I needed a 20 minute power nap, I would stretch out on the floor and I was never ever discovered. I learned early in my years at Sevenoaks that I should never point out a weakness or a need in the church, as I would be asked to fi...
Read more
Image
 EAGLE BAY CAMP   Eagle Bay Camp - Shuswap Lake I had only been in Kamloops about six or seven weeks when I joined several other men, one Saturday morning, and went to Salmon Arm, BC to a storage place to retrieve camp equipment and stuff that had been used at the C&MA camp at Arrow Lakes campsite. For a quick review let me say that in early 1964, when I was pastor at the Vernon Alliance Church, we six Alliance pastors of Revelstoke, Kamloops, Vernon, Kelowna, Penticton and Oliver got together and agreed to rent Maple Springs Bible Camp for ten days.  This camp was on a hillside a few miles west of Peachland, BC.  Our first year for a camp program was July 1964.  That year and several succeeding years, we operated a teen weekend, which usually dovetailed into the Canada Day weekend or close to it.  We had a teen camp from Thursday supper time to Sunday afternoon at which time we began a children's camp which went until the fol...
Read more