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Friday, 19 October 2007

My Updates (Fall 2007)

Dear Friends and Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I hope this finds you well. I am grateful for the opportunity to be able to write to you all again. Time really flies and it has been more than a year since returning to Hong Kong. I am extremely thankful to be home again and spend time with my family. A lot has taken place since being back home and I just wanted to provide a brief update of my situation, and hopefully you will be able to continue remember me in your prayer.

Althought having been in the US for six years , very few of you have met my family. And as such, I am including a family photo here. We took this photo when my younger sister returned to HK during summer. My sister attends seminary in Canada and she has one more year left in her Master of Divinity studies program before she graduates next April. My father works as a pastor at a church in Tai Wai (a district in the New Territories in Hong Kong), while my mom works in the same organization as I am but as a volunteer staff.

Hopefully in the near future there will be an opportunity for me to introduce my family in person to you all. They did visit Wheaton College and Wheaton Chinese Alliance Church a few years ago when I was a sophomore and during graduation.

Work at Jireh Fund

As mentioned in my previous newsletter, I am now working at a Christian organization with a ministry focus on prayer and evangelism. I have really learned a great deal since started working here last December. Although there were some difficult times and meeting various kinds of challenges along the way, I truly thank the Lord for providing this job and the opportunity to learn about not only skills in the workplace, but the attitude of serving God in a ministry setting. The organization is called Jireh Fund and you are welcome to visit our website should you want to learn more about my work. The website is http://www.jirehfund.org. There is actually a short video clip on the right of the front page that talks about what God has done in Hong Kong in the past nine years and some of the work of the agency I work for. Watch it when you have time! It really brought me great encouragement when I watched it.

Prayer Points:
l           Pray that God will grant me sufficient grace and wisdom as I work at this organization.
l           Pray that I will be open to new areas of learning and have a humble spirit as I interact with my colleagues

Hong Kong Franklin Graham Festival (11/29 to 12/2/2007)

Part of the work I am now involved relates to a gospel rally that will be held later on this year. By the grace of God, Rev. Franklin Graham and Rev. Will Graham (Youth Festival speaker) of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association have been invited to come to Hong Kong to hold a gospel rally from 29 November to 2 December this year. The Festival will consist of six public meetings, which among them two are especially catered for the youth and children. (Youth Festival and Children Festival). It will be held at the Hong Kong Stadium and is expected to draw around 240,000 people in attendance. Our agency has been assigned to assist in the prayer work regarding this Festival and so this past year we were involved with compiling various prayer handbooks that specifically prayed for the needs of the Festival, as well as holding regional and joint prayer meetings at various churches in H.K.



Prayer Points:
l           Pray that God will use this event to draw people of Hong Kong to Himself.
l           Pray for more Christians to rise and pray for this event, and lead people to attend the gospel rally

Should you want to learn more about this Festival, you are welcome to visit the Festival website at http://www.hkfgf.org

Future Plans

Please also be in prayer for me as I consider further studies. I am now considering education, social work or clinical psychology (I had majored in psychology at Wheaton) for my further studies. So please pray for me as I consider taking up a more professional career. I truly hope that it will fit well with what God wants me to do.

That is all for now and I thank you for all your prayers. I would love to hear from each one of you, and so feel free to let me know how you are all doing when you have time.

Blessings,
Marvin Lo

Sunday, 11 March 2007

Praying for the Franklin Graham Festival

By the grace of God, the Hong Kong Franklin Graham Festival (http://www.hkfgf.org) will be held from November 29-December 2 this year. The last visit from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (when Rev. Billy Graham came, but now this time is his son) was back in 1990. There will be a total of six rallies expecting to draw around 240,000 people in attendance. Many pastors and church leaders in the city are gathered to help prepare for this grand evangelistic event. I am now working for this Christian organization here that has been assigned to lead the Prayer Committee (there is like a total of 19 different functional groups for the event, from Finance Committee to Counselors' Committee). The organization is helping to compile different prayer handbooks for Christians to use as they pray and intercede for the event. From what I heard, the BGEA has mandated that people start praying for event ONE year before the event starts. It will be a lot of work, but I totally agree. SO please pray!!!!
It's going to be like at least another 10, 15 years before something like this will happen again........Now is the time!!

Sunday, 26 November 2006

最近開始了學希臘文, 希望為將來諗神學做些preparation (因聖經新約是用希臘文寫成的) , 相信都要一些時間才能完全學好 (只學好其中一些部份?, 因太多嘢學啦), 天父曾經講過, "成就的是耶和華, 造作為要建立的也是耶和華, 耶和華是祂的名, 祂如此說, 你求告我, 我就應允你, 並將你所不知道, 又大又難的事指示你. (耶: 33:2-3) 唔緊要, 在上帝裡凡事都能! 努力吧!! 感謝主!!!
Recently I have begun to learn biblical Greek, so to better prepare for future seminary studies. I would think that it would require me much time to completely learn everything or most of it (since it's entirely a new language for me), there is just so much to learn, but knowing that God is the source of all wisdom, 'This is what the Lord says, he who made the earth, the Lord who formed it and established it--the Lord is His name. "Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know."' (Jeremiah 33:2-3) It's ok, all things are possible with God. Work hard!! Thank you God!