Cecilia grew up in Christian schools in Hong Kong, praying and trusting in God from a young age. While studying game theory at university, she quickly grasped the truth of the Bible with the help of its logic. The year after her baptism, during a church youth camp, she felt called to establish a family centered on mission. This calling led her to meet Albert, who also accepted the faith and was baptized.
Albert grew up in Hong Kong, the U.S., and Canada. He returned to Hong Kong in 2005 and started a family with Cecilia in 2009. In 2016, after his parents were diagnosed with cancer, he cared for them during the day and began preaching the gospel boldly in his backyard each night, inviting neighbors to repent and follow the teachings of Jesus. These unstoppable gospel nights deepened his faith and taught him to surrender to God’s guidance, leading him to join with Cecilia on the path of mission as a family of six.
Cecilia pursued her Master of Divinity at the Hong Kong Bible Seminary while also studying for a Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. The blending of Eastern and Western theological perspectives inspired her to develop culturally relevant urban mission strategies while serving refugees and asylum seekers and working alongside them to expand God’s kingdom. She believes that mission involves not only reaching the unreached but also closely collaborating with local churches to accelerate global mission efforts.
In a prayer meeting in 2021, Cecilia realized that her deep love for Africans stemmed from her mission experience in East Africa in 2014. Consequently, in early 2023, she joined AIM (Hong Kong) as a local cross-cultural missionary. By 2024, Cecilia and Albert learned that a missionary couple in Ontario, Canada, was retiring and that no one had stepped in to serve the local Somali community for some time, which left them both feeling burdened about the stagnation of the gospel’s needs. Romans 10:14-15 stirred their hearts:
“How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in?
And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?
And how can anyone preach unless they are sent?”
In October 2024, Cecilia and Albert were accepted as full-time missionaries with AIM Borderless Canada. They eagerly anticipate beginning this journey as a family, approaching it from a cultural perspective to serve the Somali communities scattered across Ontario. They pray that these unreached people can find a home in Canadian churches and experience the resurrecting power of the gospel, while churches are blessed through serving the vulnerable and unreached groups.
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Albert & Cecilia
準備在安大略省與 AIM Borderless Canada 同心服侍
Cecilia在香港的基督教學校長大，自小向神禱告並信靠祂。在大學學習博弈論時，她透過其邏輯的幫助，迅速領悟了聖經的真理。在受洗的翌年，參加了教會的青年營會，她領受到建立以宣教為中心的家庭的呼召。這呼召使她遇見了Albert，他也接受了信仰，並且受洗。
Albert在香港、美國和加拿大成長。他於2005年返回香港，並於2009年與Cecilia結婚，生兒育女。在2016年，Albert的雙親患上癌症，他在日間只能留在家中照顧父母。這時，他開始每晚在家中的後園放膽傳講福音，邀請鄰居悔改並跟隨耶穌的教導，風雨不改。這些無數的福音之夜深化了他的信仰，讓他明白了必須順服於神的帶領。如今，一家六口漸漸踏上宣教的路。
Cecilia在香港神學院攻讀神學碩士的同時，還在富勒神學院修讀跨文化研究碩士學位。東西方神學觀點的融合啟發了她在服侍難民和尋求庇護者時，制定切合當地文化的城市宣教策略，與流散群體共同擴展祂的國度。她相信，宣教不僅是接觸未得之民，還需要與地方教會緊密合作，以加速全球宣教工作。
在2021年的一次祈禱會上，Cecilia意識到她對非洲人的深厚熱愛源於2014年在東非的宣教經歷。因此，在2023年初，她加入了AIM（香港），成為當地的跨文化宣教士。後來，Cecilia和Albert得知一對在加拿大安大略省的宣教士夫婦需要退休，而一直以來沒有同工接續服侍當地的索馬利社區，兩人心中都為福音需要停下來而著急。羅馬書10:14-15a的經文在他們心中動工：
「然而，人未曾信他，怎能求告他呢？
未曾聽見他，怎能信他呢？
沒有傳道的，怎能聽見呢？
若沒有奉差遣，怎能傳道呢？」
在2024年10月，Cecilia和Albert被AIM （Canada）接受為全職宣教士。他們將會以家庭的單位開始這趟宣教旅程，從文化的方向入手服侍散居在安大略省的索馬利社區。他們祈求這些未得之民能夠在加拿大的教會中找到歸屬，體驗福音的復活大能，同時教會也能通過服侍未得之民而蒙主賜福。
