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Dated 18th June 2016

ST. BARNABAS’ SOCIETY AND HOME

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2015 – 2016 Annual Report

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Mission Statement of


“Serving the Poor and Homeless in Hong Kong”

Service Objectives:

To minister the love of Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit.

To visit and help the homeless, the poor, the sick and distressed in

Hong Kong and to give material and spiritual aid to those on the

street.

To provide for those in need of a temporary home where they can

be encouraged, nurtured and loved.

To provide the environment for growth personally and spiritually, to

establish relationships, develop responsibility, and integrate into the

community.

To engage daily in intercessory prayer.

CONTENTS

A. Chairman’s Report

B. Treasurer’s Report

C. Assistant Centre Director’s Report

D. Pastoral Department’s Report

E. Communication Department’s Report

F. Kids’ Learning Club

G. Centre Statistics

H. Centre Activities Highlights

I. Staff Photo and Organization Chart

A. Chairman’s Report


ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ON 18th JUNE 2016

CHAIRMAN’S REPORT

I was very impressed and inspired when I received 2016 calendar produced by St.

Barnabas. The calendar contains lovely photos taken by volunteers for the project

“Caring Neighbourhood in Central and Western District” and some very meaningful

bible verses. There is a separate photo and a bible verse for each of the 12 months.

The followings are some examples:-

For the month of May, there is a photo of a westerner listening attentively to the

sharing of a friend during our Saturday afternoon gathering with the bible verse:

“Love each other as I have loved you.” (John 15:12).

For June, there is a photo of an elderly woman and a volunteer laughing joyfully at

our Centre with the bible verse: “A cheerful heart is good medicine.” (Proverbs

17:22).

Without the support of donors and volunteers moved by the Lord, how can our friends

at our Centre put on smiles so often? How can our needy friends be loved and cared?

The Supporters’ Day on 8 October 2015 is still vivid in my memory. We invited our

donors and volunteers to our Centre to give them an update of our services among the

poor and homeless, and then they had dinner with our friends at the Centre. To show

deepest gratitude and heartfelt thank you to our donors and volunteers, our friends

served them with organic vegetables grown by our service users at the backyard of

our Centre. I hope our donors and volunteers left the event with a precious and

unforgettable memory.

The life of our friends is full of funs with various activities organized by our

volunteers such as singing oldies, performing dramas, festive celebrations, running

carnival booths and selling flags on flag days. Through interactions and building up of

relationships with volunteers, our friends (who normally have low self-esteem) have

improved self-confidence and inter-personal skills.

Last year, we were so glad to see inner healing of a number of our friends through

counselling sessions conducted by university students and horticultural therapy

sponsored by a church. We have never thought that after counselling, one street

sleeper would set his aim to save money to travel, and another street sleeper had his

hair cut and wants to start off a new life working as a gardener. These two street

sleepers have been sleeping out on the streets for years. All these changes in them are

truly miracles.

Thank you Lord that our Kids’ Learning Club has been running in full swing on

Sundays since September last year. Now, every Sunday afternoon, about 25 children

and 20 parents come to our Centre. The children would take part in the children

programmes, while their parents attend parenting talks and workshops organised by us.

The children and their parents would have dinner together after the programmes. This

is truly an important family event for them and highlight of the week. The children

and parents have been drawn to the Kids’ Learning Club through “words of mouth”,

and such “words of mouth” will continue to draw more people to the Kids’ Learning

Club. The Kids’ Learning Club programmes enable the children to learn and improve

English without attending expensive English tuition classes which their parents cannot

afford. In addition, the parents can learn about parenting and share their thoughts

during parenting workshops and talks.

A big thank you to all our donors and volunteers. Without your donations and efforts,

our friends would not be immersed with so much love and care.

Another big thank you is to the St. Barnabas team of executive committee members

and staff. Without their full dedication to St. Barnabas, we would not be able to put

into practice our mission statement, “Serving the Poor and Homeless in Hong Kong”.

After counting all the above blessings, let us continue to pray for Lord’s provision of

grace to St. Barnabas, to bless the people in need.

Andrew Ngo

Chairman

2016 Calendar

Kids’ English performance

Horticultural therapy class

Counselling session

B. Treasurer’s Report

C. Assistant Centre Director’s Report



REPORT OF ASSISTANT CENTRE DIRECTOR

“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.” (Philippians 4:13)

Thanks and praises be to our faithful God, who has been blessing Saint

Barnabas’ Society and Home in the fiscal year 2015/2016 as we stepped out our

comfort zone and explored new development. His provision and guidance are always

with us.

There was an obvious increase in the number of people seeking assistance from

us in the fiscal year 2015/2016. From time to time we saw new faces in our centre.

The attendance at lunch and dinner surged 12.6% and 9.2% to 3,192 and 17,382

respectively compared to that in the previous year, indicating that the demand for

meals was still rising. Some needy individuals were referred to us by other

community organisations while some others were a result of our new outreach

strategy.

Realising that some homeless people were still out of our reach because our

regular outreach visits finished at about 10pm at night, we went one step further by

faith to explore the possibility of running mid-night outreach once a month. In the

fourth quarter of 2015, we implemented a three-month pilot programme to visit

homeless people who stayed overnight at 24-hour fast food restaurants and those who

were active late at night on the streets. We concluded that there was a tremendous

need for us to reach out and care for these people. Thank God that our ministers, who

sacrificed their family time and rest time at night, were willing to share our love with

these homeless people during the mid-night visits despite the difficult start of

conversation with this special community. Although we were still on the learning

curve, we saw God’s grace on these people as a few of them opened up themselves to

receive help from us.

On one hand we found some new visit targets, on the other hand, we felt pity

that some subdivided flat residents moved out because their tenant contracts were

discontinued due to redevelopment of the flat units by the owners. We expect this

redevelopment trend will continue as Western District has become more developed

and accessible. As a result, the total number of people visited at night has dropped

7.7% year-on-year, but our flea removal programme, which was sponsored by the

Central and Western District Council, helped us serve neighbours in day time, thus

leading to a rise of 39.3% in the number of outreach visits in day time.

Throughout the year, in general the attendance at our worship, bible study and

discipleship groups remained stable. Because we implemented a new policy for

volunteer visits on week days, the number of week-day social activities declined,

causing a decrease of 20.9% in the total number of attendance in social activities.

Nevertheless, our friends were still very active in our centre and their sense of

belonging kept increasing. The successful launch of “SBSH is My Home” scheme, in

which service users were encouraged to take up different helping roles to serve their

home -- the centre, has attracted overwhelming responses from our service users.

Therefore, the number of people receiving work training significantly jumped 40.1%

to 2,150 from a year earlier with total number of hours spent soaring 32.5% to 3,398.5.

We believe that many of our friends see our centre as their second home, thus a strong

bonding has been silently formed throughout the years.

On top of our physical support such as food and daily necessities provided to

our service users, we care for their mental and spiritual health, too. Besides the

regular Christian activities and counselling services, we introduced horticultural

therapy into our caring programme this year in order to help mitigate the stress and

soothe the emotion of our service users. The therapeutic classes were well-received by

the participants, who also gave very positive feedbacks about the programme.

Thank God that our new development was not limited to the adult services. Kids’

Learning Club (“KLC”), which was launched in September 2014, was developed with

satisfactory progress. KLC Sunday programme and dinner often drew full-house,

which heated up the atmosphere on the first floor of our premises. As of the end of

this fiscal year, weekly attendance of parents and children in the Sunday dinner

doubled to about 40 people when compared with that at the beginning of the year, and

the weekly attendance in the Sunday programme also recorded nearly 100% growth.

KLC day camp programmes, which were KLC’s signature festive activities for the

kids during long school holiday, saw high registration with average daily attendance

of 20 to 25 kids. Understanding that good parent-child relationship is a key element

for a healthy family, we introduced a series of parent-child activities on Sundays in

the second half of 2015. The outcome was exceptionally successful with many

families attending and enjoying the fun together. To support the parents who

encountered difficulties in raising their children and building harmonious parent-child

relationship, we launched parenting talks in the fourth quarter of 2015. We even

invited professional family therapist to conduct workshops to teach participating

parents about the skills to build relationship with their children.

Our achievement and development this year was not possible without the

generous support of the donors and volunteers. Our fund-raising Flag Day on 20

February 2016 exceptionally illustrated the love and care of our supporters to our

centre and the underprivileged community. The number of registered volunteers for

flag selling this year was the largest ever in the history of our Flag Day events.

Besides, the average amount of donation collected per flag bag was the largest in

recent three years. Every penny is important to us and to the people we are serving.

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all supporters of our Flag Day.

In fact, our supporters did not only show support on Flag Day. Sharing our

vision to help the poor and underprivileged, many organisations and churches

specifically gave monetary support to us for running special programmes such as

Sunday Dinner Project, Flea Removal Project, Kids’ Learning Club, Horticultural

Therapy and “For Your Eyes Only” Project. Last but not least, human resources

provided by different volunteer groups tremendously helped us reduce certain amount

of workload, improve centre operation and bring joy and love to our service users. We

would like to give million thanks to all of you for your unselfish contribution and

passionate involvement. May God reward and bless you!

In spite of enormous difficulties and challenges we encountered at our work and

development this year, we could step forward in faith, experience his grace and solve

many problems by trusting God. We strongly believe that God will continue to guide

our way to bless the people in need!

Ho Pui Kam

Assistant Centre Director

Outreach visit at midnight.

Parenting workshop and talk

Parent-child activities

Horticultural therapy class

C. Pastoral Department’s Report



PASTORAL DEPARTMENT’S REPORT

“Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.”

(Deuteronomy8:4)

The verse said that those Israelites who escaped from Egypt and entered Canaan had

to remember the grace of God and to obey the rules of God. The words “clothing” and

“feet” seem to refer to material and physical needs, which are exactly the grace of

God that our centre has been experiencing. St. Barnabas’ Society and Home is like the

Canaan to our service users. Although it is not a land of honey and milk, it is God’s

place that can support our friends’ daily necessities and health, providing them with

assistance and peace in their rugged lives.

Pastoral care

Hunger breeds discontentment. Israelites had a lot of discontentment due to food in

the wilderness. To our Friends, food is vital and significant since they don’t have

income or they have to rely on CSSA. However, we did not forget to remind them of

God’s teachings and grace so that their bodies and souls were nurtured.

Saturday worship

Regarding the arrangement of worships and sermons, we expect to help our Friends to

grow based on biblical teachings, and discover and experience God in their daily life,

thus leading to stronger Christian faith and trust in God. There was a slight increase of

3.3% in the total number of attendants to 1,931. Among the attendants, many were

new friends who quickly got used to our centre’s life and participated in our Saturday

worship.

Fellowship activities

There was a decrease of 7.5% in the number of attendants to 2,513. We noticed that

the drop mainly took place in June and July, which might be a result of the breaking

down of air-conditioners. However, this problem did not hinder the enthusiasm of the

volunteers. A lot of organisations and churches kept participating in the fellowship

activities and spending their time with our Friends. We especially would like to

express our gratitude to the support of Evangelical Church of All Blessings, whose

regular participation and dedication have built up their relationship with our Friends,

attracting a lot of our Friends to attend their hosted programmes to praise the Lord

together.

Bible studies in the afternoon

The progress of bible studies this year was very satisfactory. Together with our

Friends, we went through the history of the rise and the decline of Israelite dynasties,

the period of judges and the captivity and return of Israelites. Perhaps everybody was

afraid of studying history; therefore, the number of attendants mildly declined 4.7% to

3,014. It seems that we have to find an interesting method to teach history.

Cultivation of Christian faith

Thank God that a lot of Friends believed in God this year. To nurture their spiritual

life, we immediately invited them to study bible systematically together. Although

there was an increase of 4.3% in the number of attendants, the classes were suspended

by our Friends due to several reasons such as illness, new jobs and relocation. May

God bless us so that we can continue to cultivate the new believers!

Counselling and caring

Based on the experience from previous year, we continued to co-operate with the

University of Hong Kong for the arrangement of counselling interns to provide

counselling services to our Friends in need. With the presence of professionals, our

Friends could freely talk about their difficulties and frustration in life, as well as

receiving support to manage their own emotion. Making use of their own talents, the

counselling interns helped the service users to realise their skills in the areas such as

music, drawing and gardening. Through these hobbies and interests, the service users

under counselling gradually got their distress mitigated.

Outreach

We have set new strategies this year in our evening outreach visits. We have limited

the number of organisations participated so that we can focus on discovering new

targets and monitoring the needs of the people we visited. In the fourth quarter of this

year, we extended our visiting time so that we could have enough time to take care of

those who slept in 24-hour fast food restaurants in mid-night. In addition to our

evening visits, we also visited some targets in the day time when they were more

available. Besides, we also successfully served and visited neighbourhood in the day

time through the Flea Removal Project. Therefore, in our outreach programme there

was an increase of 6.2% in the total number of people visited to 1,447.

Thank God that He gave us more than we have prayed for. He has protected Saint

Barnabas’ Society and Home and provided us with a lot of supporting groups so that

we can serve the poor together. For example, the Love and Care for the Sick

Foundation continued to bring along with them beautiful songs and golden oldies each

month. Besides, Union Church and Solomon’s Porch assisted our Sunday Dinner

activities, Givers committed to providing us with free hair cut service, Chai Wan

Peace Evangelical Centre dedicated to helping worship and outreach visits, Christian

& Missionary Alliance Shatin Church showed loving support and joined outreach

visits, sisters from Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong Kau Yan Church devoted to

leading worship hymns, Golden Oldies Musical group gave us support and donations.

The list of supporters is not exhaustive as there are so many angels around us. We

would like to express our thanks again to these friends and supporters. You are the

grace to us from God. May God continue to bless you all!

Pastoral Team

Saturday worship

Saturday Fellowship

Outreach visit.

E. Communication Department’s Report



COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT’S REPORT

“I will give you praise, O Lord, with all my heart; I will make clear all the wonder of

your works. I will be glad and have delight in you: I will make a song of praise to

your name, O Most High.” (Psalm 9:1-2)

Between 2015 and the first quarter of 2016, God had mercy on us and the work

of Communication Department was greatly blessed.

It was our Flag Day on 20 February 2016. We went through an astonishing time

during the recruitment of volunteers. Although we started to recruit volunteers three

months in advance, the response was very poor in the early stage with only several

dozen of volunteers registered. Until the deadline on 20 January, we only got two

hundred volunteers signed up, which was the poorest response when compared to the

past. We were very disappointed and were very worried about the result. Since then,

during the morning meetings, we earnestly asked God to touch the hearts of the

volunteers and increase the number of volunteers. Thank God! We have to praise the

miracles you have done for us! Within the next month, God tripled the number of

volunteers. On the day before the Flag Day, we got nearly 720 volunteers signed up,

which turned out to be the record number of volunteers recruited in our Flag Day

history. Regarding the flag bags, we banked in nearly 580 bags, which was the second

best record when compared to the past. The average amount of donation collected per

bag was the highest in the recent three years. Thank God! Once again we experienced

the joy when walking with you in difficulties!

On the Flag Day, nearly 70 service users helped us sell flags in Western District.

As it was the Lunar New Year period, we applied sponsorship from the Italian

Women’s Association for having a Spring Festival luncheon with our service users in

a nearby restaurant. We would like to thank the Italian Women’s Association for their

generosity. Our service users enjoyed the delicious lunch very much and were very

satisfied.

We are thankful that the operation of the Flag Day was very smooth. This was

due to the enormous support from churches, schools, organisations and individuals.

The donations collected on the Flag Day will provide significant support to our work

among the homeless and poor people. We would like to give thanks to all of you.

In the aspect of sponsorship, Solomon’s Porch and Union Church provided

funding to cover some of the expenses of Sunday Dinner Project, thus helping us to

continue this project. Solomon’s Porch also came to serve meals every other month.

Macquarie Group, First States Investments (Hong Kong) Limited and Community

Church continued to sponsor Kids’ Learning Club. Celebrations in the festivals such

as Mid-Autumn Festival, Christmas and Chinese New Year were all sponsored by

Commonwealth Bank of Australia. They even sent volunteers to host programmes for

our service users, which brought along warmth and happiness. During Winter Solstice,

TVB, Staff & Artistes Fund for Charities Limited sponsored dinner. Besides, Stelux

Holdings Limited sponsored two dishes and one soup as well as serving meals every

two months. Their involvement reminded our Friends that they were cared by others

during ordinary days.

“Spreading Love to Neighbours in Central and Western District” was our

centre’s project sponsored by the Central and Western District Council in 2015. The

focus of the project was flea removal in wood partitioned rooms. Originally, we set

the target of serving 200 people. However, the response was so good that we finally

served more than 300 people. We could see there was such a great demand for this

service. Besides, one of the highlights of the Project was the two booths we set up at

the Central and Western District Carnival, one of which was managed by our Friends

while the other was by Kids’ Learning Club. We got in touch with a lot of neighbours

on that day. A lot of service users played the games and received a lot of gifts.

Sponsored by Rainbow Foundation and Italian Women’s Association, our service

users could receive free entry tickets to Noah’s Ark on 11 November last year and

enjoyed lunch there. Under the fine weather, nearly sixty service users participated in

this outing although some were over ninety years old. Our ministers told the story of

Noah during the trip. In the Pavilions of the Ark, God’s miraculous creation was

reviewed. Our Friends could feel the greatness of God and His power outside the

bible study classes at our centre. Our Friends were very happy and enjoyed the trip

very much. We thank God that we had the opportunity to experience the miracles God

performed in the bible and to feel His mercy for mankind.

Moreover, we also received sponsorship from Hong Kong Baptist Church to

start the horticultural therapy classes. After the renovation of the backyard, we can

give our Friends a resting place on one hand and a place to improve spiritual and

physical health on the other. Last year we received funds from the church to employ a

registered horticultural therapist to respectively host eight therapeutic sessions at our

backyard garden for two groups of service users. With a total of 16 attendants, the

classes helped our Friends receive physical and mental healing, thus enabling them to

live a positive life. Under the instructions of the therapist, they could decorate the

backyard on one hand and learnt how to face their physical deterioration positively on

the other. Their pressure was relieved and their emotions were stabilized. Today our

backyard garden still showcases their masterpieces.

We were invited by South Island School, West Island School, Renaissance

College and Chinese International School to attend their school fairs for recruiting

volunteers and promoting the services of our centre. Afterwards, a lot of student

volunteers helped out our children and elderly programmes. Besides, St. John’s

Cathedral invited us to their bazaar, in which we set up a game booth to raise fund for

charity. After the event, they kindly donated some of their incomes to us, too.

Besides international school volunteers, there were also volunteers with

professional qualifications helping us. Supported by Faculty of Dentistry of

University of Hong Kong in July last year, we arranged nearly 60 service users to

receive dental check-ups. The volunteers brought dental chairs, banners, a wide range

of equipment and some souvenirs on the service day. Besides check-ups, they also

provided fillings service to three service users. Our service users also received dental

education before their departure.

Most of our Friends are elderly and they are experiencing physical deterioration,

not to say their eye sight. In view of this, we invited two ophthalmologists, Dr Jason

Yam and Dr Jeremy Kwok to provide eye check-ups for our Friends. In last December,

eighty service users enjoyed the eye check-up service. The doctors identified 12

service users who needed advanced check-ups or treatments in private clinics.

Because CWM/Nethersole Fund kindly sponsored the follow-up medical expenses,

therefore, eye diseases of service users could be followed up and treated properly.

Besides the contribution of volunteers, interns are other major sources of help to

us. We also collaborated with the University of Hong Kong to recruit two interns

studying the Master Degree in Counselling. These interns continued the good work of

the previous interns of the fiscal year 2014/2015, providing counselling services to

our Friends who felt emotional or psychological disturbance. According to the

comments of our staff, emotions of the service users who attended the counselling

sessions were more stable than before. Some of our Friends even found their hobbies

like gardening and taking care of plants in our backyard garden. We were all very

pleased to see their changes.

In the coming year, we will continue to do our utmost to implement our projects

and to promote our centre. Relying on our miraculous and merciful Jesus Christ, we

will head for our targets with strength under His provision of power.

Communication Department

Spring Festival Luncheon sponsored by Italian Women’s Association

Outing to Noah’s Ark

“Spreading Love to the Neighbourhood in Central and Western District” Project

Conclusion Ceremony

Volunteers from Commonwealth Bank of Australia hosted programmes and sponsored

dinner

Eye Check-up

F. Kids’ Learning Club

ST BARNABAS’ SOCIETY AND HOME


KIDS’ LEARNING CLUB’S REPORT

“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from

it.” (Proverbs 22:6)

Hong Kong is an advanced and developed city. Despite the materialized

well-being lifestyle of Hong Kong citizens, the city has the highest income disparity

between the rich and the poor among all the developed countries and regions. Some

government’s figures show that one in five Hong Kong people lives in poverty and

one in four children do not get three meals a day. Because of high living standards in

Hong Kong, raising kids may be a burden to some families. Kids’ Learning Club

(“KLC”) was opened with the mission to reach out to these children and families.

These families might not be able to offer extra-curricular activities to their children;

therefore, KLC can offer a place for children to come to have fun, and build up their

talents and personalities. We hope to educate kids not only about studying but also

thinking, reasoning, discovering, and more important is to become a great person in

the future.

With the support of different organisations such as banks, international churches

and schools, KLC has organised a variety of programmes for children and families

this year, including Sunday kids programme, drama club, English exchange

programme, parenting group and day camps during school holidays. Through these

programmes, we could gather underprivileged families living nearby and support

them physically and emotionally. In addition, we hope to create mutual support within

families.

Every Sunday afternoon children came to attend our Sunday programme. There

were usually one-hour English class conducted by volunteers from international

schools, who might tell stories and hold games, and then two hours of extra-curricular

activities such as sports, cooking or art and craft. Every first Sunday of the month,

Community Church volunteers came to join our programme and had fun with our

children. They would tell bible stories, sing songs and do some worksheets and art

and craft with the children. Moreover, Watermark Church members visited KLC every

other month to hold activities for the children. With the help from the international

schools and churches, the children had more exposure to native English speakers and

got their English communication skills improved. Participating in our extra-curricular

activities, the children could release their stress from school work and examinations

while enjoying their holiday.

Beginning from September 2015, we introduced a one-hour session of

parent-child workshop into the two-hour extracurricular activities. We would like to

include the parents and their other family members into our programme so that the

family members could understand each other better and strengthen their family

bonding. There was a total attendance of 728 children in our Sunday programme,

which was held 43 times in the year. Following the success of our summer day camp,

the number of children attending our Sunday programme has jumped significantly

since September. Word of mouth and programme adjustment also attributed to the

increase in attendance. After every Sunday programme, we provided family dinner,

which could satisfy their physical needs on one hand and build a sense of belonging to

our centre on the other. With 45 dinners served throughout the year, there was a total

attendance of 1,449 parents and children. On the whole, total attendance in Sunday

Kids Programme and Sunday Dinner this year significantly surged 158% and 209%

from 282 and 469 in the fiscal year 2014/2015 (Sunday Kids Programme kicked off in

September 2014) . We were so grateful to see the growth.

This year we partnered with two local schools, San Wui Commercial Society

School and St. Matthew’s Primary School, to organise English learning

extra-curricular activities for their students. With the help of Chinese International

School and West Island School, we successfully organised the drama club and the

English exchange programme for the kids of the above two local schools. The

children from the local schools enjoyed our programme and had a great time with our

international school volunteers. In the programmes, the local students tried to express

themselves in English. Despite making mistakes, they learned that it was acceptable

for them to learn from errors. Having participated in the drama club programme for

10 weeks, the students from San Wui Commercial Society School were required to

rehearse an English drama and stage a performance in front of the elderly of China

Coast Community, an elderly home located at Kowloon Tong. After the

performance, the students spent some time talking with the elderly and all of them had

a great time together. Furthermore, the children learnt to respect the elderly through

the visit.

The students from St Matthew’s Primary School also learnt a lot through our

English exchange programme, such as various sports and occupations as well as the

ways to create an integrated community. Besides, assigned a theme on integrated

community, they helped KLC design and man a booth for the Central Western

Carnival. It was great that they could learn English while serving the community.

With 41 sessions of the above inter-school activities, there was a total attendance of

598 students.

KLC has held three different day camps throughout the year, namely the Easter

Day Camp, the Summer Day Camp and the New Year Day Camp. Each day camp

carried a theme. While “Science” was the theme of the Easter Day Camp, “Art” was

for the Summer Day Camp and “Building” was for the New Year Day Camp.

Through these different topics, the children would be able to discover their own

interests and increase their curiosity about the world. After all, curiosity and

knowledge can change the world.

Parenting group was a new programme launched in the fourth quarter of 2015.

It aimed to create a platform to support the parents and build bonding between parents

so that they can support each other even without external help. The parenting group

was designed to contain talks and workshops which answered parents’ questions

about nurturing their children. Additionally we organised activities such as cooking

and sports to let the parents be themselves and escape from parenthood.

Throughout the year, we received lots of blessings and we would like to give

thanks to our Lord. We hope we will be on his path and follow his guidance forever.

Equally important, we hope more families will gain benefits from our services and

come to know our loving God.

Kids’ Learning Club

KLC Annual

Statistics

2015April-2016Ma

rch

2014July-2015Ma

rch

+/-

%

Remark (started

programme in

July Summer

Camp)

Total Served

(man-time)

Total Served

(man-time)

Physical

Support

Sunday 1449 469 Sunday

Dinner (total) 209.0 programme

launch in

September

Sunday

Dinner

(parents)

635 163 289.6

Sunday

Dinner (kids)

814 306 166.0

frequency 45 27 66.7

Kids

Programme

Sunday Kids'

Programme

728 282 158.2


The Drama

Club

247 144 71.5


The English

Exchange

Programme

351 168 108.9


The Easter

Day Camp

97 0 n.a.

frequency 5 0 n.a.

The Summer

Day Camp

199 168 18.5

frequency 12 12 -

The New

Year Day

Camp

142 76 86.8

frequency 6 6 -

Developmen

tal

Programme

Work

Training

204 91 124.2

Hours Spent

(w/ work

training

allowance)

412 182 126.4


Community

Education

Service

Promotion

2925 2285 28.0


Volunteers

Involvement

Involved in

Centre

Service,

outreach,

kidsl

program …

etc

527 251 110.0


Sunday Programme– children with volunteers from the Community Church

Sunday Programme– children gaming with volunteers from the Watermark Church

Parent-child workshop

Family Dinner

G. Centre Statistics

H. Centre Activities Highlights

April 2015 HKUGA College students hosted Saturday Fellowship and served dinner at Centre.

May 2015 Qualied College students hosted programmes and served dinner at Centre

June 2015 Macquarie Group Community Day at Centre

July 2015 HKU Faculty of Dentistry students provided Friends with dental check-up at Centre.

August 2015 United Christian Nethersole Community Health Service Nutrition Labels Workshop at Centre

September 2015 Commonwealth Bank of Australia hosted Mid-Autumn Festival programmes and sponsored dinner

November 2015 Centre outing to Noah’s Ark in Ma Wan with our Friends.

October 2015 SBSH Supporters’ Day

December 2015 Union Church volunteers hosted Sunday programmes and served dinner at Centre.

January 2016 Volunteers from Stelux Holdings International Ltd. hosted programmes and sponsored dinner at Centre.

February 2016 SBSH Flag Day

March 2016 Volunteers from Evangelical Church of All Blessings hosted Fellowship and served dinner at Centre.

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