January Newsletter

Dear Brothers, Sisters and Volunteers:

‘May the LORD bless you and protect you. Let the LORD make his face shine upon you, and give you favour. May the LORD lift up his face to you and give you peace.’    (Numbers 6:24-26)

As we entered year 2025, we could already feel the fullness of our Heavenly Father’s grace. The ’45th Anniversary Carnival and Walkathon’of the CMVIP was successfully held on 11 January. Under the cold winter weather, there were games and performances by the visually impaired at the City Art Square of the New Town Plaza in Shatin. In the afternoon, a walk along the Shing Mun River was held, and about $220,000 was raised as sponsorship on the day of the event.

The launching ceremony was graced by the presence of artiste Mr Kimman Wong, who was very supportive of the event. In addition, Mr. Daniel To, Chairman of the Executive Committee of CMVIP, delivered a speech to the guests and participants. The walk started and ended at the City Art Square and most of the participants completed the whole walk in just over an hour. Participants supported each other and walked with one heart and one mind to carry forward the mission and needs of CMVIP. Jan Wong, a member of CMVIP who has been actively participating for many years, said, “As a visually impaired person who has benefited from CMVIP services, I am very grateful to the centre for providing us with a lot of spiritual support, and it is an obligation for me to contribute to CMVIP for the sake of the Kingdom of God.”

We sincerely invite you to join us in the ” Action for Love Donation 2025″ on this joyous occasion of the Lunar New Year by donating a portion of your red pocket money to support the work of the CMVIP, so that viusally imopaired will be blessed with your care and support!

Ministry needs and remembrance in Prayer:

1. Please pray forthe funding of the renovation of We are grateful to all friends, guests, organisations, groups and the visually impaired for their contribution to the walkathon fundraising. Although the funds received are still a long way from our target, we believe that our Heavenly Father will make provision for the centre.
2. Please pray for the renovation of CMVIP as it willtake a lot of hard work and preparation from January onwards, especially how to communicate with the Housing Department and the renovation company, as well as praying for a place to set up a temporary
3. Wethank the Lord that CMVIP Magazine has received funding from the CWM / Nethersole Fund again this year. We pray that our Heavenly Father will use this as a tool to help the visually impaired to take deeper root through the sharing of the pastors, features, books and information from the
4. OurHeavenly Father’s power is truly amazing. CMVIP has received funding from a charitable fund managed by the HSBC Trustee to develop TEXT TO SPEECH technology for the production of Pray that our co-workers will be able to adapt smoothly to the use of this feature, and make full use of this technology to enhance the ministry more effective.

If you would like to know more about our work, please contact us on 2777 7762 or visit http://www.cmvip.org.hk/

CHRISTIAN MINISTRY TO VISUALLY IMPAIRED PERSONS
CMVIP General Secretary
Shirley Chow