Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod

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Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod(香港路德會) is a confessional Lutheran church body in Hong Kong. Almost forty parishes belong to the LCHKS. It is the offspring and direct descendant of the China missions of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod from the early 20th Century. Some of the locations of the LCHKS parishes are listed below.

As of 2006, the LCHKS is a member of the ILC which is in communion with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod of North America. The president (July 2006) is the Reverend Dr. Allan Yung. (戎子由)

1 History
2 Partial List of Congregations
3 Reference
4 Print sources
5 See also

[edit] History

In 1915, missionaries were sent to China by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The missionaries preached the gospel along the Changjiang in Hubei and Sichuan. The Lutheran Church -Missouri Synod, HK & Macau Mission was established at that time.

After 1949, during the Chinese Civil War when the Communist Party of China expelled Christian missionaries after gaining control of Mainland China, the LCMS missionaries planned to return to the United States. However, they decided to stay and start evangelical work in Hong Kong when they saw so many Chinese Civil War refugees in Hong Kong. Later, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Hong Kong Mission was established.

In 1977, Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod set up Lutheran Social Service. It changed from a mission station to an independent local church and registered as Lutheran Church–Hong Kong Synod.

[edit] Partial List of Congregations

Church of All Nations, 8 South Bay Close, Repulse Bay (淺水灣), Hong Kong, Tel.: 2812 0375. (English language services available)
Elim Lutheran Church
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Located in Kwun Tong)
Nathan Road Lutheran Church, 1/F, 80 Nathan Rd, Kowloon (九龍), Tsim Sha Tsui (尖沙咀). Tel.: 23669973 (Cantonese language service only) Divine Service Sundays 11am (as of Feb 2006)
Sharon Lutheran Church (located in Sharon Lutheran School, Tai Kok Tsui)

[edit] Reference

LCHKS (香港路德會) website

[edit] Print sources

Our China Mission. Men and Missions IV. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1926.
One Cup of Water International Lutheran Women's Missionary League (ILWML) paperback book, edited by Joyce Kerper Brauer. 1997 (describes the accounts of Magdalene Meyer, Olive Gruen, Gertrude Simon, Laura Ziegler, and Martha Boss who brought the love of God into the turbulence and destruction of China in the 20th century.)

List of Lutheran denominations