[ ‘SHARE’ May-Jun 2016 ] STEP INTO THE WORLD
Human trafficking is often international, and it has become the second largest global illegal trade business following drugs. Sixty percent of human trafficking activities were international.
CEDAR is supporting multiple partners in their education, support network building, living condition improvements, and life rebuilding projects.
Continue reading Combat Human Trafficking From Church, Through Church
[ ‘SHARE’ May-Jun 2016 ] TAKING ACTION
Interviewer and Editor: Tsun Wan Yan
We are prone to be judgmental against sex workers and procurers and assume that they voluntarily chose this particular path, which deemed them unworthy of the cry for our help. However, have we ever missed the focus by grappling on the right and wrong of their doings, and forgot that they need people’s caring as much as, if not more than, we do?
Continue reading A Different Light in the Red Light District—Eden Ministry’s Work in Hong Kong
The recent strong series of earthquakes affecting vast areas in Myanmar, Japan, and Ecuador have raised global concerns.
[ ‘SHARE’ Sep-Oct 2015 ] CEDAR’S BLOGGER
Yiu Lai-Wah姚麗華 (Project Officer (Yunnan))
Years ago I took a course on cross-cultural studies wherein a tutor shared with us her cross-cultural worship experience: believers from Africa rejoiced aloud with dancing, while Chinese believers sang hymns solemnly. An African brother asked, “How can you worship God this way?” and the Chinese brother answered calmly, “If we worshipped the King like you do, we would have been beheaded long ago!” Whenever I see something ‘disagreeable’ in a foreign place, this story reminds me not to be self-righteous and judge other people with my own cultural values.
[ ‘SHARE’ Jul-Aug 2015 ] STEP INTO THE WORLD
In Baoshan city of Yunnan province, about 70 families of the Lisu ethnic minority live on Gangding Mountain, which is about 128 kilometres from the city. All of them, approximately 440 people in total including children, are Christians. Their living is never easy because they have no proper household registration (hukuo) and they do not speak Chinese.
Continue reading Transform and be Transformed: Together with the Migrant Community in Yunnan
[ ‘SHARE’ May-Jun 2015 ] FOCUS ~ MINISTRY
Battered by Cyclone Pam, the South Pacific island of Vanuatu looks as if it has come to the end of the world…
The extremist group Islamic State (ISIS) kills men, rapes and snatches girls as ‘war trophies’, and forces boys to undergo military training…
The harder it gets, the tougher they become
