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Those donations came from 3,800 and more brothers and sisters in Hong Kong, Mainland China as well as
from overseas. We thank all of our supporters, brothers and sisters, your donation, your participation in the
walkathon, be it prayers, toil or sweat, which showed your love for LTS. It is extremely important for LTS
to continue fulfilling the mission entrusted by God - to train God’s loyal servants, to serve the church, and to
proclaim the name of the Lord all over the world. Thanks be to God!
The work of the Development Department in 2018 is as follows:
1. Theological Education Sundays are arranged every year, in which our professors and students go together
to various churches on Sundays, preaching and giving testimonies. In 2018, the Development Department
received a total of 48 invitations from the church, including for the Theological Education Sunday,
Mission Sunday and Diakonia Sunday, as well as Spirituality Camps on Saturdays in order to serve the
brothers and sisters in the Lord.
2. In 2018 The Pastors and Co-Workers Continuing Education Committee conducted the Reverend Daniel
Wong Lecture on Pastoralia on Pastoral Ministry held on 12th March at The Chinese Rhenish Church,
Kowloon. Rev. Dr. Jeff Shu served as the main speaker. Four workshops were held after the lecture. About
210 participants attended.
3. The 2018 Annual Sacred Music Worship Service with the theme “Restoring the Beauty of God’s
Creation” was held on 20th April at the ELCHK Truth Lutheran Church. Emeritus Prof. Mabel Wu and
Rev. Michelle Chiu were the conductors; Rev. Angus Wu gave the sermon. There were approximately 600
people who attended the service.
4. The 2018 Bible study camp on “The Book of Nehemiah” conducted by Dr. Nicholas Tai Ho-fai, was held
on 11th August at LTS. There were more than 160 participants.
5. The 2018 Annual Theological Conference co-organized with the Culture Regeneration Research Society
(CRRS) was held on 26th to 27th October with the topics on “Theological Reflection in New Era
China”. It began with Dr. Thomas Leung from CRRS sharing the topic on “Faith and the Daoist State
of Emptiness and Tranquility” in the morning on 26th October at LTS Chapel, with about 80 attendants.
After the lecture, the two-day conference began with speakers including Dr. Thomas Leung, Dr. Kenneth
Tsang from LTS, Dr. Andres Tang from the HK Baptist Theological Seminary, Dr. Liang Hong from
the China Graduate School of Theology, Dr. Paul Wong from the University of Helsinki and several
professors from Mainland China. There were 35 attendants on average and the papers presented will be
published in the future.
6. The 2018 Fundraising Walkathon was held on 28th October starting from the Christian Alliance Cheng
Wing-gee College. The objective was to raise HKD2 million for the campus renovation. Praise God, the
target was more than reached as over HKD2.6 million was raised on Walkathon Day with the support
from the brothers and sisters in the Lord.
7. The 105th Anniversary and Founders’ Day Celebration was held on 30th November, 2018. Rev. Maggie
Mathieson and Dr. Ricky Szeto, both alumni, gave messages in the morning service. The Seminary
President Dr. Simon Chow gave the message at the evening service. On that occasion, we presented a
thank you gift to Mr. Isaac Hui, the designer of the logo for the 105th anniversary.
8. This year, we published and distributed a total of 6 issues of the LTS Newsletter in Chinese with 3,000
copies per issue, and 3 issues in English with 500 copies per issue.
9. Mr. Jeff Cheng, Development Secretary, was re-allocated to becoming the general secretary on 1st
January, 2018. Ms. Mandy Cheng left us on 31st January, 2019.
E. Information and Technology Office

For the year of 2018 to 2019, the theme of the Seminary’s IT is “taking off with the Optical Internet”.
Following up with last year’s Optical Internet access, the seminary have finished all the IT infrastructure by
the end of 2018. For example, the linkup of buildings with an optical fiber backbone, as well as the upgrade
of up-to-date Wi-Fi Access Points throughout the whole campus.
Thanks to the high speed internet, we were able to join the Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing platform
to provide free web hosting and server for library’s eBook system. Moreover, we also now subscribe to
Microsoft 365 for free email and OneDrive online storage. There are no longer any worries on email quota.
Our new website in the construction also uses CMS (Content Management System). In the coming years,
the seminary will start to deploy distance learning such as using video conferencing in classroom. We are
grateful if anyone of you experts in these areas can help us.
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