God help us
Sunday, October 29, 2006

After spending 3 hours in my place of worship and meditation (Starbucks :P) me and the team stumbled across a Filipino church. This group had got permission to every Sunday block off a whole street in Hong Kong Central and preach the word of God to the thousands of Filipinos that sit in Central, Hong Kong.
Filipino women come to Hong Kong to become domestic helpers earning around HK$3,670 a month minus the $500 Tax for overseas workers they work six days a week and spend all of Sunday in ministry and worship. Most of these believers live and work in a slave like environment being on call 24/7 and earning what is considered a very low wage. They work here because work in the Philippians is even worse and so that they can earn some money for their family back home.

Despite the long hours and low wage I have never experienced people so happy and eager to spread the gospel.

This was an amazing testimony to me and I now feel inspired to spend my time more wisely.

In the next few months I will be working to hopefully earn support for these people to go into full time ministry. If any one can think of any way to do this I would love your ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filipinos_in_Hong_Kong

posted by pete footer at 9:50 PM