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Christian Cafe to Go International
Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009 Posted: 3:45:15AM HKT
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| The Love The World team. Directors Samuel and Wah Sun SeongKoon are pictured on the top right and bottom left respectively. (Photo: CP) |
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As the recession worsened in the beginning of the new year, the Flyer management met with the team from the café and invited them to hold an impromptu concert.
They organised a concert at the amphitheatre featuring Christian songs which saw a turnout of 5,000 people. The Rev Tony Yeo, Deputy Senior Pastor of CEFC, opened the meeting with a prayer.
These became examples of God’s miraculous provision for the team behind the café.
More recently, Love The World has held a cultural event that has made waves with the Christian community. The ‘Holy Ghost Getai’, an innovative Christian redefinition of a Chinese religious festival, gained many supporters.
This Saturday, the café will be organising another event much along the same lines, except that the target audience would be the English-speaking. Titled ‘Hell-no-Win’, the event is another Christian redefinition, this time of the Halloween festival.
At the end of the day, the SeongKoons and their team of volunteers are willing to rough it out financially just to see their vision through. And they invite other Christians to do the same.
Kee Chin Fah, who used to work in a Swedish bank, is offering her professional skills without taking a salary. She compares her contributions to tithing, from which she expects no monetary returns.
"I always tell my friends that whatever I have: time, health, money; it's all from God," she said.
Other volunteers have been contributing in various ways including in the designing of the logo and mural and even wall graffiti.
As for the sibling directors, they are willing to turn their profits from the business over to its expansion as a worldwide franchise and as an offering to the church and missions. Income from the sales of its merchandise is also turned over to the church.
Love The World may become an IPO, but discussions are still premature.
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Edmond Chua
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