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Participating Organization: Hong Kong Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship

Miss Yu Miu Wan was born in 1951 and studied both in Taiwan and Canada. Through her role as a teacher in various schools, Miss Yu met many students who came from grassroots backgrounds, especially those in night schools. Her teaching experiences have led her to pay more attention to workers who were being ignored by the church at that time. Since 1977 Miss Yu has served as a volunteer with the Industrial Evangelistic Fellowship and has spent her whole working life with the organization. From 1989 to 2015 she was its general secretary. Under her leadership, HKIEF has promoted different services to workers since the industrial relocation in 1980s, such as mentorship projects and assistance with gambling addictions.

Ms. Yu introduced her family background as a migrant family from the mainland after WWII. She remembered that her family first had contact with the Christian church because of relief distribution. She shared how her secondary school life led her to Christianity, and how her participation in the Campus Evangelical Fellowship in Taiwan shaped her life. Ms. Yu recalled her encounter with founding members of the Hong Kong Industrial Evangelical Fellowship (HKIEF) and her lifelong service in HKIEF. Ms. Yu reflected on the changes of work emphasis of HKIEF in the 1970s and 80s. In the very beginning, HKIEF solely aimed to evangelize factory workers. In the 1980s, it emphasized community work and community church. After the 1990s, HKIEF emphasized service and vocational training for the lower class.

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