Mission Trip

I've never been to Macau for mission trips, most of my trips are to the Guangdong Province and I have been to Indonesia once.

Amazingly there are over 300 mission trips to Macau every year but less than 1% of the population are Christian. (Even less than China probably.)

Here's a good piece of reflection on what we do on our short mission trips. (It's in Chinese.)

As we're preparing for another short mission trip to China early next month, I think we should bear these in mind.

However, I think Macau is different from China. I remembered being told by church members in some small towns that after we've been there, more people accept Christianity. Before then it was thought of as an old women's religion, people who believed in these kind of "nonsense" must be poorly educated. Then the people in town realised lots of people from HONG KONG, EDUCATED PEOPLE (!) actually believe in this Jesus, more people were willing to go to church afterwards.

Lots of good reminders from the article. It is wise to be considerate of the situation and the feelings of these people. And not act as if we're the great charitable donors. I think most of the time we should see God's grace and power more than our own work in these situations. We are the receivers as well. The money issue mentioned is important, and I've never thought of it that way before.

Same as everything we do in life, if we ever think it's US who get the job done, it's wrong. And if we know who's in charge, we'll be a lot more humble.