I have a dream...
and a vision that every Christian home in Hong Kong (and the world for that matter) will have Christian media in it, whether that be magazines, comics, CD’s DVD’s, or Videos, we will have the alternative to what the world is giving us, we will choose it and have our lives changed by it.
This dream began when Ed and I started having this need ourselves. As we began to allow our first love, God's Holy Spirit, to take us over, our taste in worldly media began to sort of disappear. It was so weird but stuff that we really used to enjoy before suddenly began to seem so tasteless to us. We got rid of more than half of our CD's DVD's, books and magazines - we kept the comics though ( I still enjoy those very much)
The other day we were listening to a commentary on JR Tolkien and CS Lewis, the famous Christian authors of 'The Lord of the Rings' and the 'Chronicles of Narnia' and the speaker was saying that the one problem they had with the literature of their time was that they could not find anything that they wanted to read, and so they decided to write the books themselves. That's a bit like what's happened to us.
We remember the day we went to the bookstores in HK looking for Christian magazines that were modern and interesting and a good read, stuff written by local Christians and we could find almost nothing. We had to subscribe to the ones made in the States which are really good by the way. Anyway our dream to see the same done in Hong Kong began, and what an awesome dream it is. The Hong Kong people are readers. You see it all over the place. People read on the MTR, we all have magazines in our homes, there are little magazine hawkers all over Hong Kong. The comic culture is also huge among the kids in Hong Kong.
We have a dream that what is being read today will be replaced by what will actually help lift our spirits, entertain us, edify us, solve our problems and complete us and God certainly can do all these things and He wants to.
This is not an impossible dream. Nothing is impossible with God.
May more and more people dream this dream with us. Thank you Father for dreams and thank you that you deliver way above our dreams and expectations. You are exciting Lord. Awesomely exciting. Give us some great stuff Lord. We look forward to it, we do, we do, we do. Amen!
and a vision that every Christian home in Hong Kong (and the world for that matter) will have Christian media in it, whether that be magazines, comics, CD’s DVD’s, or Videos, we will have the alternative to what the world is giving us, we will choose it and have our lives changed by it.
This dream began when Ed and I started having this need ourselves. As we began to allow our first love, God's Holy Spirit, to take us over, our taste in worldly media began to sort of disappear. It was so weird but stuff that we really used to enjoy before suddenly began to seem so tasteless to us. We got rid of more than half of our CD's DVD's, books and magazines - we kept the comics though ( I still enjoy those very much)
The other day we were listening to a commentary on JR Tolkien and CS Lewis, the famous Christian authors of 'The Lord of the Rings' and the 'Chronicles of Narnia' and the speaker was saying that the one problem they had with the literature of their time was that they could not find anything that they wanted to read, and so they decided to write the books themselves. That's a bit like what's happened to us.
We remember the day we went to the bookstores in HK looking for Christian magazines that were modern and interesting and a good read, stuff written by local Christians and we could find almost nothing. We had to subscribe to the ones made in the States which are really good by the way. Anyway our dream to see the same done in Hong Kong began, and what an awesome dream it is. The Hong Kong people are readers. You see it all over the place. People read on the MTR, we all have magazines in our homes, there are little magazine hawkers all over Hong Kong. The comic culture is also huge among the kids in Hong Kong.
We have a dream that what is being read today will be replaced by what will actually help lift our spirits, entertain us, edify us, solve our problems and complete us and God certainly can do all these things and He wants to.
This is not an impossible dream. Nothing is impossible with God.
May more and more people dream this dream with us. Thank you Father for dreams and thank you that you deliver way above our dreams and expectations. You are exciting Lord. Awesomely exciting. Give us some great stuff Lord. We look forward to it, we do, we do, we do. Amen!
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