Text Box: Everyone has their own world view and our world is so beautiful because of the diversity and differences. This may seem a little cliché, but it also happens to be very true – Everyone should learn to understand and get along with each other. What the world needs to do is to stop the accusations and bitterness. This is what Love and Peace Ministry is all about. We are focused on closing the gap between different races and social backgrounds. It’s all about the Love and the Peace. Since 1996, Love and Peace Ministry has been striving to instill the fact that people need to love and understand each other, so that all may understand God’s love for us all. From its very start, Love and Peace Ministry has been working to bridge the gap between Christians and Muslims. One way to accomplish this is by bringing the two groups together to celebrate their respective festivals, such as Easter, Eid Ul Fitr, Eid Ul Adha and Christmas. Love and Peace hosts these festive celebrations in community halls to fit the many guests. In these gatherings, we mix both the religious cultures so that everyone can feel at ease. We have Pakistani and Christmas musical performances and the evenings are topped off with a delicious halal Eid and Christmas dinner. Gifts and souvenirs are given out to all the guests as well, as a token of appreciation. These festive moments are celebrated with our Muslim friends so that we can all come together in the spirit of brotherly love to rejoice in our diverse faiths, while simultaneously unified by our humanity. Besides all the celebratory gatherings, also works in creating awareness of controversial issues which surround both Christianity and Islam. Seminars are held on a variety of topics, ranging from topics such as “Islam Jihad and Terrorism”, “Similarities in Christianity and Islam”, “Status of Women In Christianity and Islam”, “The Concept of God”, “Salvation in Christianity and Islam”, “Human Rights in Islam”, “Jesus Christ in Christianity and Islam”, and “Salvation in Christianity and Islam”. In every seminar hosted, we make it a point to portray perspectives from both the Christian and Muslim sides. Love and Peace has also been hosting Muslim-Christian Fellowship Dinners to create opportunities for everyone to understand each other. The Love and Peace Ministry works hard to be productive and carries on various programs and weekly activities. These activities are developed from the direct influence of our mission statement as well as from the realities that people face every day in Hong Kong. The Love and Peace Ministry is dedicated to serving all people. But our main focus is to help Southern Asians who migrated to Hong Kong. Though some of these immigrants have done very well and settled right into the fast-paced Hong Kong lifestyle, the majority are living at the lowest level of Hong Kong’s social structure. These immigrant communities that live in lowest level have been in Hong Kong for at least two or three generations. Being born into these communities is one thing, but being offered the chance to lead a better life is another. This is the reason why the Love and Peace Ministry find extreme importance to develop programs for the children and youth of these communities – to inspire them for formal, social education that would allow them to integrate more proudly into Hong Kong Society. There is another group in Hong Kong which requires our assistance. Youth from third world countries who enter Hong Kong illegally are often so desperate that they take risky methods to come and live in Hong Kong. Though there is a number of organizations and church groups that are designated to help these people, their cases are often too complicated with many legal problems, which make it hard to help them through their difficult positions. The truths of each of these young illegal immigrants stay obscured for most of the times, so it is hard to reach out to them. But nevertheless, these youths need a tremendous amount of help because they are usually just ignored. Our purpose is to glorify God by obeying His Greatest Commandments: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your mind. And the second is this You shall love your neighbor as yourself” It means love God and to Love all fellow human beings. The best way to express our true love towards God Almighty and to our fellow human is to obey His Great Commission! Love and Peace Ministry has a mission to reach out with the love of God to all human beings - all our precious brothers and sisters - created by our same Father in heaven. It is our hope that together we will be able to build a peaceful society, not only in Hong Kong but also in the world as a whole. All Ethnic groups require our attention for the improvement of the quality of their lives. The Love and Peace Ministry finds encouraging their children and youth to get education a big part in attaining the improvement of ethnic minorities. It is precisely for this reason that Love and Peace Ministry has the mission to work for the poor, and in our process we hope that the children and youth would be able to nurture a more loving and tolerant worldview. The Love and Peace Ministry is working to devise a program to which would unify all the communities together so that together we can build a vision for a peaceful world. What we need is a unified community that would be concerned about the rest of our biased world. Nobody likes to hear that they are biased. But it is very true that everyone – everyone – is biased in some way or the other. Most of us have racial, social, and/or religious prejudices. We all need to come to terms with that fact and work on becoming more tolerant and accepting. An open mind would lead a long way on this road towards unity. Based on these realities, we have developed a number of programs.   Ministry of Hospitality PRAYER FELLOWSHIPS Men’s Fellowships Lunches & Dinners are organized to share the Love of God Women Fellowships: By God's Grace we are able to serve meals in all of our fellowships. And our Lord’s grace doesn’t stop at that. We are also able to serve meals everyday for those who are jobless and seek refuge. Love and Peace welcomes the needy and finds it a blessing to be able to serve them a hot meal to show our love and concern. This is the least we can do to indicate that we have love and concern for those who are in need because of our calling and because of our faith. (Matthew 25: 35-40).   Sundays at Love and Peace On Sundays, the Love and Peace Ministry is focused on serving people by offering worship services. These people are mainly from Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Africa. A lot of these people are asylum seekers or migrant workers (who are not employed at all times). There are some businessmen present during our small but faithful Sunday gatherings, but their number is very small. There are few domestic helpers who also attend this fellowship. Our worshippers consist of a variety of backgrounds and that is what enriches our fellowship more as everyone comes together to seek love and peace. Our main purpose for the Sunday services is so that people would be able to receive God’s love and His good news of salvation!   Prison Ministry: Matthew 25: 36 The prison experience can be a transforming experience for inmates. Of course in the social sense, entering prison is a life changing experience. But we are talking about the emotional and spiritual transformation as well. Prison is a place where people can experience penance and remorse for their sins. Visits to inmates are made so that we could share God’s love with them. Most of these inmates don’t have much to hope for, so it is up to us to instill hope and faith in their hearts with the Gospel of Salvation. We need to further develop this important and fruitful ministry as it still needs a lot of encouragement and support. Education The educational program for Ethnic Minority’s Women for their social skills and meetings with local women needs to be designed. An adequate arrangement for departing education needs to be made. Seminars and small group discussions to be organized to understand current issues in the world which has the potentials to become divisive in society. Seminars of Muslim and Christians be organized for subjects of importance like peace, justice, human rights etc. It is important for Love and Peach Ministry to develop programs for Children and Youth of Ethnic Minorities to inspire them for formal education and social education to integrate in Hong Kong Society. Love and Peace Inter-faith Forum Love and Peace Ministry facilitates seminars, forums and workshops among different religions, beliefs, philosophies, nationalities and races. These programs will be very helpful to bring all people groups together for discussion and understanding which hopefully will bring healing and reconciliation. This is an important task for the Love and Peace Ministry. Text Box: The Love and Peace Ministry is a Charitable Organization . . . (tax deductible donor receipts can be issued).   Love and Peace Society HSBC A/C # 813-096435-838 This Ministry is run totally upon God’s blessings. Your Love offering goes towards covering the cost of the Ministry and it shall sow many seeds and bear fruit in abundance. Any help and support from you as an individual, your church or your mission group, will be greatly appreciated. ****************** This is a faith ministry made possible by the generous and humble servants of God

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