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Participating Organization: Hong Kong Church Renewal Movement, Fellowship of Evangelical Students (HK)

Rev. Yu Wai Kan was born in 1943. He attended Bethel High School and graduated from Hong Kong Baptist College (now Hong Kong Baptist University). Rev. Yu joined the Fellowship of Evangelical Students (Hong Kong) in 1968 and served as their general secretary for 20 years. In 1988 Rev. Yu began serving as the general secretary of the Hong Kong Church Renewal Movement, continuing in that role for 20 years. Throughout his life, Rev. Yu has been influenced by the evangelical student movement and he served in association with the “student council” in the 1970s. He also led the Fellowship of Evangelical Students to participate in different social incidents, like the jubilee incident in 1970s. In anticipation of the approach of 1997, a critical moment for Hong Kong, Rev. Yu became involved in the 1984 composition of “The Statement of Faith of Hong Kong Christians in the midst of Social and Political Changes”.

Rev. Yu began his sharing with the religious experience of his youth and he recalled inter-school/inter-college activities of young Christians. He shared about his service in the Fellowship of Evangelical Students (FES), Hong Kong, for twenty years (1968-1988), and recounted how FES nurtured different evangelical social participation attempts in 1970s and 1980s. He also reviewed his next twenty-years of service in the Hong Kong Church Renewal Movement (HKCRM) (1988-2008), until his retirement. He explained how HKCRM worked as a parachurch organization in promoting social awareness among Christians in the transitional period. Rev. Yu introduced his theological principles of social participation in the interview.

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