History of Chinese Alpha

The first Alpha Course in Hong Kong started at Union Church Hong Kong in 1994. In 1998, Steve and Hannah Miller, members of Union Church, organized the first Hong Kong Alpha Conference with Nicky Gumbel as the speaker. Local Hong Kong churches started to run Alpha since the Conference. In 1998 Hannah Miller also started to get involved in the translation work of Alpha Resources into Chinese.

By 1999, Alpha Course Hong Kong Ltd. was established, and the main function of the office is to translate the Alpha Resources into Chinese and to run Alpha Conferences and trainings to support local churches and overseas Chinese churches to run the Alpha Course. In 2004, Alpha Hong Kong assisted in the first Alpha Conferences in Taiwan and Shanghai International Church.

In 2005 and 2006 Alpha Invitations were launched in Hong Kong, with citywide promotion of Alpha, and encouraged churches to start the course in the same week. It resulted in an unprecedented growth of the ministry: there are now over 300 courses running in Hong Kong, including 12 prisons, 56 youth courses and 50 workplaces; and approximately 50,000 people attended a course to-date.

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