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Lutheran Church-HK Synod
Lutheran Church-HK Synod
The Lutheran Church—Hong Kong Synod (Chinese: 香港路德會) is a confessional Lutheran (信義宗)
church body in Hong Kong. The LCHKS has nearly 40 congregations. The LCHKS grew from the China
mission of The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), which was established in the early 1900s.
Many of the LCHKS parishes and schools are listed below.
History
In 1915, missionaries were sent to China by The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). The
missionaries preached the Gospel along the Yangtze River (Changjiang) in Hupeh and Szechwan.
After the Chinese Communist Revolution, the Chinese Communist Party expelled Christian missionaries
after gaining control of Mainland China in 1949, the LCMS missionaries planned to return to the United
States. However, they decided to stay and start evangelical work in Hong Kong when they saw so many
Chinese Civil War refugees in Hong Kong. Later, The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Hong Kong
Mission was established.
The Hong Kong Mission developed into an independent local church and registered as The Lutheran
Church—Hong Kong Synod (LCHKS). Currently, the LCHKS has about 9.000 baptized members.
Currently, the LCHKS is operating schools at kindergarten, primary, secondary levels serving nearly
20,000 students throughout Hong Kong.
Kowloon
New Territories
Secondary schools
協同國際學校)
Concordia International School (
Concordia Lutheran School, Kowloon (路德會協同中學)
Concordia Lutheran School-North Point (北角協同中學)
Gertrude Simon Lutheran College (路德會西門英才中學)
Lui Ming Choi Lutheran College (路德會呂明才中學)
Lui Cheung Kwong Lutheran College (路德會呂祥光中學)
馬錦明慈善基
Ma Kam Ming Charitable Foundation Ma Chan Duen Hey Memorial College (
金馬陳端喜紀念中學 )
路德會啟聾學校)
Lutheran School for the Deaf (
Saviour Lutheran School (路德會救主學校)
Primary schools
路德會聖馬太學校(秀茂坪))
St. Matthew's Lutheran School (Sau Mau Ping) (
路德會聖十架學校)
Holy Cross Lutheran School (
Sharon Lutheran School (路德會沙崙學校)
Lui Cheung Kwong Lutheran Primary School (路德會呂祥光小學)
Leung Kiu Kau Lutheran Primary School (路德會梁鉅鏐小學)
Lutheran Tsang Shing Siu Leun School (香港路德會增城兆霖學校)
Kindergartens
See also
List of Lutheran denominations
References
LCHKS ( 香港路德會 ) website (https://web.archive.org/web/20060701120317/http://www.luth
eran.org.hk/clp2.htm)
Telephone and address information for congregations via LCHKS website (https://web.archi
ve.org/web/20070419024706/http://www.hkchurch.org/Search/ListByParent.asp?Opt=CHU&
Par=001333)
Telephone and address information for congregations via HK Yellow Pages (good English
language facility) (http://www.ypmap.com/ch/viewer.asp?mapService=LocationMap_c)
Archived (https://web.archive.org/web/20191202012302/http://www.ypmap.com/ch/viewer.as
p?mapService=LocationMap_c) 2019-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
Print sources
Our China Mission. Men and Missions IV. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1926.
One Cup of Water International Lutheran Women's Missionary League (ILWML) paperback
book, edited by Joyce Kerper Brauer. 1997 (describes the accounts of Magdalene Meyer,
Olive Gruen, Gertrude Simon ( 西門英才 ), Laura Ziegler, and Martha Boss who brought the
love of God into the turbulence and destruction of China in the 20th century.)
External links
Asia Lutheran Communion (http://www.asia-lutheran.org)