Origin This ministry started in 2002 when Jubilee’s seminary students practised what they learnt by doing personal evangelism among a group of hawkers. Starting from 2006, some hawkers showed willingness to believe in God. In October the same year, a regular Hawker Ministry was established in Mongkok.

Characteristics of Hawkers
Since they simply cannot leave their stalls, hawkers have no time to cater for their own needs. They eat fast food all the time. Long working hours result in poor relationship with family members.

Strategies of the Ministry

1. Each year, we hold 40 day fast to pray for this group of people. We do prayer-walk around the hawker areas. Through worshipping God on the streets, we prepare the soil for the seed of the Gospel.
2. We listen to God’s voice in our prayers to ascertain the proper strategies and methods of outreach.
3. We patronize the hawkers and make friends with them to establish a relationship of trust.
4. We give out soup to them every week. During special feast days, we pass out gift packages to bless them.
5. We help them clean their stalls and tidy up goods as an effort to be incarnational.
6. We organize various evangelistic events for them, like winter-solstice celebration, mobile Christmas carnival, free blood pressure check-ups and hand massage.

Results of the Ministry

1. 20 hawkers have trusted in Jesus and two of them have been baptized.
2. 70 friends/family members of the hawkers have become Christian
3. A total of 56 people took part in the Chinese New Year Celebration 2008.
4. On Easter Day in 2008, we organized a Parade for Jesus. On that day, 5 worship teams worshipped Lord at the same time at 5 different locations. We raised large flags that read “Jesus is Lord” and paraded round the wet market.

Current Activities

1. Regular Gatherings
   (a) Monday Night Gathering – average attendance of 15 people.
   (b) Church without Walls Sunday Gathering – with an average attendance of 40 people
   (c) )Friday Afternoon Gathering for Women
2. Regular Activities
   (a) Monday afternoons – Giving out about 140 cups of soups to hawkers each time
   (b) Thursday afternoons – Visiting individual hawkers.
   (c) Sunday worship sessions

Promotion and Relationship with Churches Brothers and sisters from different churches join us in reaching out to the hawkers. Beginning November 2008, we help Kei To Church in Cheung Sha Wan to develop the hawker ministry in the district.

All churches are welcome to join us in the worship sessions in the hawker areas in Sunday afternoons.

If your church would like to start a hawker ministry, you may contact Ms. Liu Shuk-fan of the “Hawkers Ministry” at Jubilee Ministries.