Because you've prayed for us, and you've sent
gifts to us, which have blessed us in
our ministry.
And our ministry is very simple.
We don't understand big things.
We only understand just we want to share
the heart of Jesus with those who've never
heard.
In Psalm 23 it says, I shall lack
nothing.
Well, I lack nothing.
I have everything.
I have everything I want in Christ, but
that's not true for the world.
There are millions and millions and millions of
people who lack even anything, some of them.
They don't know those words about the Lord
who feeds hungry people.
Nobody ever told them that oppressed people could
be freed.
They live believing that corruption is the gnome,
and you pay people back with what they
paid you.
Whether it's bad words, or injustice, or blows,
or bitterness.
That's what most of them know, and I
want to show you some of their faces
today.
Because I've seen them, and I think that
you may never see their faces, and you
may never hear them crying, unless I tell
you.
Because most of them just do it in
secret.
And if you'll open your ears to hear
what they're saying, and if you'll open your
hearts to feel how they're feeling, if you
open your eyes, I believe you'll see them
about you, because they're among you.
They're not just in Hong Kong.
Before I go on, I'm going to sing
to you.
It won't be a tune that you know.
It won't be in words that you understand.
But there will be someone here who has
the understanding of that song, the interpretation.
So if you have it, would you please
sing it, or speak it, because this song
is from the Lord.
So hear Him.
Gather my people.
Gather my people to my kingdom.
Bring them into my kingdom.
For in my kingdom there is no drought.
There is no hunger.
There is no despair.
And what I have given to you, I
want you to give to others.
There is no shortage in my kingdom.
Bring my people to me.
Take my kingdom to them.
I'm so glad that God said that.
And I want to share with you some
of the way that He taught me how
to share the kingdom of God with others.
And I pray that if you listen, you
might be encouraged to share it like this.
It's not hard.
It's not hard at all.
Because that's what He wants.
In Romans 15 verse 8, St. Paul says,
I will not venture to speak of anything
except what Christ has accomplished through me in
leading the Gentiles to obey God by what
I have said and done, by the power
of signs and miracles, through the power of
the Holy Spirit.
So I have fully proclaimed the gospel of
Christ.
When I first went to Hong Kong, it
was nearly 18 years ago.
I didn't know what I was going to
do when I got there.
It's a long story.
But briefly I got onto a ship and
I prayed that God would tell me where
to get off.
And so that's how I hit Hong Kong.
And when I arrived, I didn't have anywhere
to live.
I didn't have any friends.
And I just wanted to share Jesus.
And to start with, it seemed to be
all the wrong way around.
Because everywhere I went, it's like here, I
received all the time.
I said, God, this is all wrong.
You know, I came here to give.
And all the time I'm receiving.
You know, sometimes I used to visit churches
and at the churches they gave us coffee
afterwards.
That was wonderful.
Because I had arrived with the equivalent of
about 15 of your dollars in Hong Kong.
And at some churches you got cookies as
well.
And I remember coming out of those saying,
oh, thank God, I got a cookie too.
I've never in my life been as grateful
since as in those days.
All the time I was receiving and I
said, but God, I want to give.
I want to give.
Where should it be?
And I was confused.
Because I saw so many people in need.
I saw so many hungry people.
I saw old women who were lying in
the streets.
And they were begging.
Because there are not enough old people's homes.
And there are not old age pensions.
There's no state security for people who don't
have any work.
There's no social security.
So they just begged.
Lying out there in the open at night.
And I thought, Lord, maybe I'll have an
old people's home.
Maybe I could look after the old people.
Because they're old men too.
And there were two old men I knew
who tried to sell vegetables.
And at night they slept on them.
Just locked themselves into their little hut.
It would have been about two feet by
six feet.
And then there were the children.
A lot of little children who carried babies
on their back.
Maybe they were only three or four or
five years old.
And they were looking after the babies.