We provide a variety of services to churches, schools and general public, include: organizing training courses, seminars and workshops, and publishing textbooks, picture books, storybooks and Christian literature.
Strengthen the church as a whole and individual parishes on mission, discipleship training and spiritual development. We organize seminars and training courses on a regular basis.
1. Spiritual and Evangelical Events, and Training Courses
Host spiritual and evangelical events, and training courses to enhance Christians’ spiritual growth. Include: Seminar of Anselm Grün, Ping Pong Evangelical Events of Rainer Schmidt, etc.
2. Anglican Vitality‧Anglican Reading Campaign
Since 2011, RERC has organized the ‘Anglican Reading Campaign’ every year and invited ten Anglicans to share their lists of must-reads. The aim is to encourage Anglican clergy and laity to be closer to God and to understand oneself through reading.
3. Campaign for Anglican Vitality
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Province of Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui, RERC organized a campaign of nurturing the laity named ‘Campaign for Anglican Vitality: Be a “ ” Anglican’ which started in March 2009. The scheme required each believer to meet the standard in 9 categories which include Scripture reading, prayer, worship, study, caring, evangelism, offerings, ministry and fellowship.
We published preschool to secondary religious education textbooks, picture books and Christian literature, to support teachers, students and parents.
1. Textbook
Published religious, personal growth and Sunday school education textbooks to support frontline religious educators.
2. Children’s Book
Publishing picture books, storybooks and value education material to help teachers and parents explore the value of life (RERC organizes the ‘Parent-Child Reading Certificate Award Scheme’ every year, for details please refer to ‘Children’s Ministry’) .
3. Christian Nurturing
Publishing Christian literature, Bible study guides and the Anglican series for understanding faith.
Organizing training courses, seminars and workshops for religious educators and parents, supporting their continuous growth and renewal.
1. Certificate Course for Sunday School Teachers
Affirmation of the mission of Sunday school teachers, strengthening of Sunday school teachers’ knowledge and understanding of children, and providing of effective and solid teaching skills.
2. Journey to Intimacy
Helping couples and individuals to understand the influence of families of origin on building up intimate relationships. Students will learn how to communicate and resolve conflicts using the ‘language of love’, and improve oneself and develop a holistic personality through training in the course.
3. No Apologies: The Truth about Life, Love and Sex
This course is used by RERC under the authorization of Focus on the Family of America. To train teachers of the course ‘No Apologies’ to jointly promote sex education that is based on life education and guide children and teenagers in learning to love oneself, building up decent values in sex and rejecting pre-marital sex.
4. Others (on an irregular basis)
• Preschool Religious Education Seminar
• Primary School Religious and Civic Education Seminar
• Secondary School Religious and Moral Education Seminar
• Sunday School Teacher Seminar
• Parenting Education Seminar
• Discipleship Training Course
• Believers Nurturing Course
• Believers Serving and Evangelism Course
Parent-Child Reading Certificate Award Scheme
The objectives of the scheme are to enhance children’s development of intelligence and language skills, strengthen childhood education in areas of core values, character, sentiment and spirituality as well as parent-child relationships.
Providing various resources for the busy educators in schools, religious education programme coordinators, teachers, ministers and officers of evangelism in schools.
For example:
- Church calendar with festival dates and details
- Religious Education in Senior Secondary Schools – Reference Material (online resources)
- Christian Values of Sheng Kung Hui Schools (Electronic and printed version)
Producing diversified teaching aids, arts and crafts for schools, churches and families. Include: teaching aids, multi-media products, gifts and liturgical use.
Organizing book booths for schools and churches to exhibit religious education resources and participating in local and international book fair to promote reading.
Member Service
Enhancing the communications with individuals and organizations and providing special offers for purchase, seminars and workshops.
Bookstore
Apart from the sale of books, we provide information on book purchase and mail order.
We provide a variety of services to churches, schools and general public, include: organizing training courses, seminars and workshops, and publishing textbooks, picture books, storybooks and Christian literature.