TheVine.Champions

10/12/2017

Legends.

23/02/2017

After we refined our ministry vision to “BUILD. EXPAND. TOGETHER” last August, I realised that I needed a core team of people to work alongside me to bring this vision into reality.

After some time searching, I am delighted to share with you that I have invited seven talented individuals to be on the Champions core team.

The Champions core team has been functioning since last October. I realise that some of you may not know all of them, so I want to take this opportunity to offically introduce them to you.

(1st picture from left to right: Vincent Chan (Myself), Matthias Ratz, Keena Thrush, Melody Wang, Ruth Lam, Wolali Dedeho, Roy Chan, and Chris Yuen (see 2nd picture))

The main objectives of the core team are
- Develop a new volunteer culture and new strategy for volunteer care and training
- To assist members within the ministry to grow in their spiritual understanding of serving.

As part of our desire to develop our volunteer culture and growth of volunteers, we are now looking to identify a group of small team leaders. These people will assist in leading our small teams within the ministry. The Champions core team will approach and invite certain individuals to join this group; however, if you are interested in joining this team please contact me at [email protected]

Thanks so much and stay tuned for all the amazing things that will happen this year!

14/01/2017

Happy 2017 everyone!

To start off the year right! The Champions Core Team got together for a 2 nights 1 days offsite to work through some of the major developments and volunteers care of the Champions ministry in 2017. Excited and look forward for these plans to take place!
Stay turn for these amazing things to happen!

06/11/2016

Such a wonderful time to celebrate our church twenty years anniversary with these lovely bunch!

27/10/2016

Hi everyone!
Our story teller this week is (drum roll..) Sgni-t Ara (Saguy)! :)
Saguy is now living in the UK with her family, she was an amazing help to the Champions Ministry in many areas during her stay in Hong Kong. It is great that we have the opportunity to honour her servant heart once again through this story telling.

*We hope you are enjoying your new adventure in the UK, and continue to experience the grace and blessing from God everyday, Saguy, Giovanni, and Paulina:)

My Story:
(A brief introduction of yourself and reason of why you joined the Champion Ministry)
My name is ‘Saguy’ (Sagnite) from Mexico. I am a full time wife and mother of my 8-year old daughter.

I joined the Champions Ministry because I started to feel that God was encouraging my to do something for him, in some way.

(Explain why you love to give your time and talents to serve)
I feel that giving my time is a great opportunity to be part in serving our community, but the most important, is that I feel I can praise God for his glory!

(How Champion ministry help you to grow/ what you have gained from serving)
The Champions Ministry is helping me to grow more in Christ and feel in communion with God.

Testimony:

(Tell your testimony/unique experience while serving)

My experience when I’m serving, is that I feel like led by the Holy Spirt, he puts something very special in my heart; goodness, kindness, humility and a big smile. It is also as if he helps me to understand the emotions and feelings of the people who are coming, and helps me to be more sensitive and give a sincere welcome.

(How God speak to you through these testimonies/ experiences)

Is wonderful to see and feel his grace, his presence, his mercy and how he is guides me. He puts in my heart to serve, this is how he is shows me how much he loves me and takes care of me for His glory!

- Saguy Araiza

26/10/2016

Hi Champions!
We are creating a data base for the Champions ministry to help us with our future organisation and planning.

If you are currently serving on one of the the teams (Champions, Welcome, Counting) Please kindly take 2 minutes to fill out the online form below.

Thanks so much and blessings!

(All information will be kept confidential and for ministry use only)

Hi everyone, I would like to create a data base for our ministry and this will certainly helps with future ministry organizings. Please kindly take 2 minutes to fill out the form below. As I may not have everyone's email, please also help asking EVERYONE from your team to fill out this form (Special...

23/10/2016

Amazing and very good looking Champions team from the Cantonese community today!

23/10/2016

We had a lovely Champions ministry orientation today. Don't worry if you've missed it, we will have regular orientations throughout the year.

Check out our Champions page (www.thevine.org.hk/champions) for the latest info and sign up to be part of the team!:)
We need you!

20/10/2016

Hi Lovely People!!!
We will be having our Champions Ministry orientation this coming Sunday. WHOOP!!!

Date: Sunday, October 23rd
Time: 4pm – 5:00pm
Location: 1/F Mini Hall of The Vine

Please come join us this Sunday afternoon if you are new to the teams, or wanting to understand more about Champions ministry and to get involved.

Please also spread the words and invite new friends to come as well! Light refreshments will be provided as motivation and encouragement to you all ;)

Excited and look forward to see you all this Sunday!

20/10/2016

Hope everyone has a fantastic week so far!

Our story teller this week is (drum roll...) May Li
May is an amazing person and always carries such a servant and loving heart in everything she does!
I hope you enjoy her story and remember to click "LIKE' if you enjoy reading it!



Hi, I am May!
I have become a Christian since 2003 and joined the Vine for almost 5 years. Now I am one of the PLUS leaders in the Chinese Community and an active Champion since 2012.

I am always thinking of respond my love to the one, whom I love by doing something He delighted, that is the key reason and incentive for me to be a Champion and almost has never been missed.

I found I was being uplifted and be fostered to be more brave and more confident every time I contributed myself to be Champion. l see how’s God use different people in serving, in which people with particular talent or gift, of course, will be put to the right position to be further sharpen. However, people who those with hidden talent, which his own-self neither realize, will be exposed and be refined to be better in serving.

I think I was the one out of many being refined through Champions Ministry. Many times, when I feel a bit fed up and exhausted of recruiting Champion because of manpower shortage, God words comes to me “we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

– Romans 8:28
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who[a] have been called according to his purpose.

13/10/2016

We've rolled out this exciting initiative called 'Story Telling" a few months ago, collecting amazing stories from Champions on why they love to give their time and talents serving!
*Please click "LIKE" if you enjoy reading these stories, so that we can also encourage the story teller:)

I am very excited to introduce our first story is from our Volunteer Services Coordinator, Georg He. Georg has been with The Vine for almost 10 years already. Hope you enjoy his story :)


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November 2006 I came to Hong Kong again, after God spoke to me “Go to HK”.
I had no idea what this adventure brought me into. I was attending a Worship-Event by Hillsong and met there Ps. John Snelgrove and his wife Sandra, who were inviting me to their church: The Vine Church in Central.
Visiting a church for the very first time, especially in a foreign city might be a bit scary or not easy. Intimidating in a way. Especially if you are not very much an outgoing and a more introvert type of person.

So I showed up – on the last minute – at the elevators on the ground-floor.
Someone (I still know his name: Vinny Rowse Vincent James Rowse) in a black T-Shirt greeted me, asked me if I have come there for the first time, which I confirmed.

“Let me show you to the church then” he said and brought me up, encouraged me to stay back after the service at the info-point, because some people would gather there for a coffee.
He then brought me, as the back doors closed, to the last available seat, which was in the front row, beside the guest-speaker at that Sunday: Robert Glover.

While I was entering and enjoying the worship, I felt so much welcomed. I came as a foreigner, but these guys in black,
who were called Champions made me feel loved and accepted. It was like I have come into a new family. I felt totally at home.
Sure after the service, they gathered me with two other visitors and we all went for a coffee, paid by the church, and had a great fellowship-time.
These guys and girls in black were real Champions in welcoming the congregation and forming an atmosphere of being God’s family.

Over the time the colors changed from black to red and then to the one we have now. I am feeling blessed and privileged to be able in stepping into the footsteps of those, who gave me such a warm welcome on this November 26th, almost 10 years ago.

13/10/2016

We just had our 2nd Champions Ministry Training last Sunday focusing on "Team Work", with all three amazing teams together (Champions, Welcome, Counting)

A BIG Shout-Out and Thanks to Dove Ht Chan co-led this training together! And thanks every Champion who came to the training.

Our next Champions Ministry Training will be in January 2017, stay tuned for more information!