If you are 18-22, you should seriously consider being a part of what God is doing in
Hong Kong by going on an AIM mission trip for young adults.
Hong Kong by going on an AIM mission trip for young adults.
This trip will be heavily focused on prayer and intercession. The first five weeks will be spent working in Hong Kong with long-term ministries who have an established presence in the area. This will be a time of preparation and planning to enter the mainland for the last 4 weeks of the trip. There will also be opportunities to work in a global distribution center with worldwide connections. Goods sent from this center touch the lives of many, all around the world.
Their stories tell of despair, courage, as well as hope. The team will then travel into a closed East Asian country for the remainder of the trip. The focus of this time will be on intercession, worship and evangelism and teams should expect to live simply and travel often.
Get to Know Hong Kong
(Compliments of Wikipedia and CIA.gov.)
Location
Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China.
Climate
Subtropical monsoon; cool and humid in winter, hot and rainy from spring through summer, warm and sunny in fall.
Religions
Eclectic mixture of local religions 90%, Christian 10%.
Languages
Chinese (Cantonese) 89.2% (official), other Chinese dialects 6.4%, English 3.2% (official), other 1.2% (2001 census).
Literacy
Definition: age 15 and over has ever attended school total population: 93.5%, male: 96.9% female: 89.6% (2002)
Culture
Hong Kong is frequently described as a place where “East meets West”, reflecting the culture’s mix of the territory’s Chinese roots with the culture brought to it during its time as a British colony.
One of the more noticeable contradictions is Hong Kong’s balancing of a modernized way of life with traditional Chinese practices.
Concepts like feng shui are taken very seriously, with expensive construction projects often hiring expert consultants, and are often believed to make or break a business. mirrors are still regularly used to deflect evil spirits, and buildings often lack any floor number that has a 4 and fast food.
Other objects like Ba gua in it, due to its similarity to the word for “die” in Cantonese. The fusion of east and west also characterises Hong Kong’s cuisine, where dim sum, hot pot restaurants coexist with haute cuisine.
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