Dad's trip to Hong Kong

I received this email from my dad, regarding his upcoming mission trip to Hong Kong:

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Hi Prayer Supporters,

Wow! Time is flying! I leave in about 3 weeks and still so much planning and preparation to do for Ministry in Hong Kong. With our Gospel Magic presentations it's usually a practice of "Pack Small, Play Big". That's a challenge. Many of our audiences are over a 1000 people and they have to be able to see what we are doing without binoculars. I'm sure we will use alot of colorful silk magic, ropes, sponge balls, stuff that we can cram into suitcases. But I still have to be able to take a table that will set up quickly, look very professional and be big enough for all to see. Looks like it will be a carry-on case with a tripod that can screw into the bottom.

You can imagine what we go through when we are going through CUSTOMS!!! Lots of weird things the inspectors are looking at. They usually take our magic out of the containers and are totally confused. We have to patiently explain that "No, sir, this is a TOY gun, nothing real, we are magicians". That sometimes makes them all the more suspicious!! Pray that we will get all of our "props" through customs, going and coming.

I received a "TENTATIVE" Outreach Ministry Schedule. Already FIFTY meetings in a three week period. So this will probably change to ONE HUNDRED meetings by the time we arrive in Hong Kong. ALREADY 16 Shopping Center Malls!! And these are not strip malls we are talking about but 6 or 7 floors of stores, malls as big or bigger than anything you've seen in the States. So we are talking of THOUSANDS of people in these malls, and we will be doing an HOUR program, presenting God's saving Love to them.

One huge challenge in Hong Kong is reaching the ELDERLY. The government has placed the care of most of their elderly in the hands of churches, so the people we are ministering with, YOUTH FOR CHRIST, has stepped in and taken on a huge part of this responsibility. Isn't that something- HONG KONG YOUTH FOR CHRIST reaching out to thousands of seniors every week with the Gospel. So many of them sit all day long without anything to do. So the people we are ministering with have opened a huge part of the multilevel building they are in(7000 sq. feet of office space that just opened up)and transformed it into a Senior Citizen Outreach Center, where seniors could come and go all day long and experience the Gospel in many different ways. I will be doing MANY Senior Citizen programs and they just love the color and excitement of hearing the Gospel through magic, music, puppets and comedy. Pray for all the Seniors who will find Christ as Savior and for their nurturing.

Our schedule shows, in addition to the Shopping Malls and Senior Citizen centers, many churches, schools(from nursery to High School and Tech Schools) and Fruit Market parks(lots of outdoor veg. and fruit markets). And I'm sure there will be a few jails or prisons and possibly some civic events(dinners, concerts, etc.) And then the Gospel magic classes we will teach to help Chinese young people reach out to their own.

Whew! I'm exhausted!! I'm taking lots of power bars(are there any that are flavorful?)and vitamins. We're talking 5-6 meetings a day, all the bus and subway travel, setting up and taking down our programs. But I can't wait!! I'm excited, God is excited, all the pastors and Christian workers in Hong Kong are excited. I hope you are excited too!!

Some of you have asked about how to give to this ministry. Denny and Karen Magnuson of World Sports Network(WSN), a wonderful Sports Ministry Outreach to all the world, have graciously allowed me to have my supporters make out check to and send their support to:


World Sports Network(WSN)
3199 Fryden Court
San Diego, Ca. 92117

Just note that support is for Don Bromley ministering in Hong Kong.

Well, I'll let you all go for now. Probably one more newsletter before and then some newsletters from Hong Kong.

Love you all!!

Don "Mr. Tiny" Bromley
dbromtinyusa@netscape.net