2017 Year End Newsletter

Dear Partners,

Greetings from China in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Last month we have received financial support from our home church in California and some of our close friends both in Hong Kong and the US; more than 60% of our deficit was covered. We were able to back pay our staff salaries for the last two months. On top of that, we finally received the grant money from a USA Foundation and put us right into the black again before the end of last month. Thank you for all your prayer and support. PTL!

Early this year we have started our PAC RIM Leadership Institute in the city of Shenzhen. We have trained two focus groups of young career adults.  One group was mainly non-Christians on career planning and leadership principles. This focus group has about 50 some members. Our purpose is to plant good Christian values into their management thinking as well as pre-evangelism effort.

We will train and recruit the second focus group who are mainly Christian business people. We will be traveling to other cities such as Guangzhou, Wenzhou and Shanghai to train them.  Although our PAC RIM Leadership Institute is located in Shenzhen, some of our training effort will be itinerary. Christian theology and values will be our main focus in our training.

At the same time we are working on our bi-vocational training project on counselors, business managers and the medical professionals. Next year we will take couple of short term teams to Xinjiang and southeast Asia to explore the possibility of sending workers there.

Also, we will be visiting the United States again this Christmas to celebrate Chuck’s Mom 90th Birthday. Chuck will probably be sharing with some churches and fellowship groups. We will be in LA between Dec 19 - Jan 4. In San Francisco from Jan 5-16, 2018. You may want to send me an email or WhatsApp message if you need to contact us or for speaking engagement.

Best Regards,
Chuck & Queenie Chan
Pacific Rim Foundation, Limited
www.pacificrimfoundation.com 

2016 Year End Newsletter

                                                                                     December 9, 2016
Dear Partners,
 
John Dawson says in his book "Taking The Cities For God"：
 
“A nation is a geographical and political alliance among its major cities.  The cities are the mind and heart of the nation, the place where the national myth is largely enshrined…As we dream of discipling nations, we must firmly grasp the reality of these nations.  That means the Gospel must transform the spiritual, philosophical and physical life of a nation’s cities.”               
 
May God’s grace and blessings be with you this year and the years to come!   We have recently traveled to Guangzhou & Beijing and networked with a few house group networks there. We will be training over 80 bi-vocational and Business As Ministry workers and then send them to the minority group areas in the Western and Northwestern regions of China. The training will begin in December 2016 until 2017 and they will be held separately in the cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou., and Shenzhen.
 
The PAC RIM Leadership Institute staff are conducting young adult leadership workshops and a Mental Focus Coaching Workshop in Shenzhen & Guangzhou towards a group of young adults from 18 to 40 years old to enhance their career planning and leadership skills. We have offered them several seminars and workshops in our conference room this year so that they can network with each other. In 2017, these workshops will be held in the cities of Shanghai and Beijing.  
 
We are planning to send our first couples to Thailand next year. Timothy was a graduate from our MBS seminary in Guangzhou more then a decade ago. He was recently ordained in Hong Kong. Hopefully, our organization will be able to finish training him and his wife cross-cultural skills and raise enough support to send them to Thailand next year. By the end of 2017, another family will be recruited and sent to southeast Asia. The above two projects we will need to raise USD 30,000 = HKD 232,500 this fiscal year for training, travel expenses, and ministry workers sending purposes.  
 
An internet publishing project Dawn of Asia Press has been started at early 2016. People can read our Dawn of Asia Magazine online and download training materials. Also, they can purchase our books online. Also, an online Theological program is under construction on this same website. Please check out our different programs as they are going online this winter.   We are projecting our current deficit by the end of December 2016 will be USD 10,000. We rely on your support and donations for our ministry. publishing and research effort for China.    
  
May God bless you and give you the grace to move forward in peace and insight in the forth coming year!

Blessings and Best Regards,  
 
Pacific Rim Foundation, Limited

2015 Year End Newsletter

                                                                                                         December 31, 2015
Dear Partner,                                         
 
Our office and our staffs moved from Guangzhou to this southern City of Shenzhen 5 years ago in early 2011.  This is a twin city with Hong Kong as its neighbor.

Shenzhen is a very special city.  Many young people here are chasing after their dreams and their material possessions. They all work very hard. The average age here is only 29 years old.  Therefore, we automatically become their mentors, aunties and uncles.    
 
This year end we just launched our young adult career workshop and our Mental Focus Workshop.  The target groups are young adults from 18 to 30 years old.  We offer them seminars and workshops in our conference room so that they can mingle and network with each other.  Also these are pre-evan gel*sm events to link them to our leadership training and our online disc*pleship program.  
 
Last month, several young people came to our house for a Thanksgiving dinner party and 7 of them gave their lives to Christ after the dinner meeting simultaneously. We believe it was the work of the Holy Spirit.
 
Today, the dark New Age Movement has penetrated China through Life Coaching and Management Seminars. Under disguise of management and leadership coaching, they name themselves "Life Dynamic." People like Anthony Robin are selling more than 10,000 tickets in each seminar event. People are paying a lot of money for their mind control training and transcendental meditation leading to nowhere. Therefore, we have developed a series of Leadership training called the“8 Characters of a Successful Leader" and “Focus Mindset”for these young people and hopefully we can recover their twisted mindset.  
 
16 years ago, Stacy McGuire and our chairman had started our Factory Association called Quality of Life Association in Hong Kong and we recruited over 30 factories in southern China, with a network of over 200,000 employees. Over the last 15 years, we had led over 35,000 China factory workers and staffs to the faith. Now we are still working with the CEO and managers in China to create a wider platform for ministry. Please continue to pray for us as China is going through a fast transformational change. As this economy becomes wealthier, less people will be willing to listen to the Gospel.
 
An internet publishing project called Dawn of Asia was started at beginning of this year. People can now read our "Dawn of Asia Magazine" online and download research materials and read testimonies. Also, they can purchase our books online and we can deliver them through courier service to every corner of China, Hong Kong and Macau. A Leadership training program is also online now under the Pac Rim Leadership Institute.

Best Regards,
 
The Staffs and Management Team of Pacific Rim Foundation, Ltd.
Pacific Rim Foundation, Ltd.