Development

1984

1984: The first public hospital (Grantham Hospital) offering chaplaincy service
Grantham Hospital	Rev. Joshua Chan was the first chaplain in Grantham Hospital	Vision sharing on chaplaincy ministry, organized by Grantham Hospital

1985-89

1985-87: Rapid development of chaplaincy service / CPE training for chaplains
The Pastoral Counseling & Caring Association first started CPE training program. Dr. David McCormick started CPE program in Prince of Wales Hospital and provided training for various chaplains. The Bethel Bible Seminary started their first CPE program in 1986, which was the first theological seminary setting up CPE training in HK. The HK Baptist Hospital also started CPE program in 1987. The Prince of Wales Hospital organized the first volunteer training class.
Dr. David McCormick (centre), the founder of the chaplaincy committee for hospitals in Shatin district and Chaplain Cheng (2^nd left), the first full time chaplain.

1988-89: Establishment of AHKHCCM / Continuous development of the ministry
The Association of H.K. Hospital Christian Chaplaincy Ministry was founded in 1989, with the objectives to foster the growth and development of hospital chaplaincy services in Hong Kong, to support the ministry in all hospitals with action, as well as to co-ordinate and fully utilize all resources available from local churches and hospitals to achieve a higher standard of “holistic care”
The first Board of Directors of the Association	The reunion gathering of volunteers at PWH (1988)	The first Sunday Service (1989) at QE Hospital

1990-93

1990-91: Baptist Hospital hired CPE supervisor from U.S.
The HK Baptist Hospital was the first hospital in H.K. to employ ACPE supervisor from the States to conduct CPE program in H.K., hence upgrading the program to international standard. Rev. Joshua Chan assumed the role as General Secretary of the Association. He has made tremendous contributions in promoting the hospital chaplaincy service and was awarded as “The Outstanding Young Person 1991”. The Association published “The Tender Voice” bi-monthly as to promote “holistic healing & health”.		Rev. Joshua Chan delivered speech as the General Secretary at the appointment ceremony (1991).

1992-93: Chaplaincy service at harvesting stage
The Association organized the first CPE training and recruited overseas supervisors to conduct training for chaplains. The Association purchased the premises at Lok Fu and invited Dr. E.K.Yeoh, the Director of Operations, Hospital Authority, to officiate the opening ceremony of the office. The first Award Presentation Ceremony of Hospital Chaplaincy Volunteers was held.	Officiating guests(1992)~ from left to right: Rt. Rev. Peter K.K.Kwong, Dr. E.K. Yeoh, Rev. C. K. Lee.	The group photo of volunteers taken at the Award Presentation Ceremony (1992).

1994

1994: 10th Anniversary of Chaplaincy Service
Celebration events for 10th anniversary of chaplaincy service: Chaplains’ Nite, exhibitions, seminars, outing, study tour to Taiwan etc.	Outdoor exhibitions to introduce “holistic healing” and chaplaincy ministry	Seminar for all local chaplains
The Chaplain’s Nite held at the Cultural Centre.	Outing for volunteers	Trip to Taiwan

1995-99

1995-96 Ministry in Continuous Progress
The first Joint Fundraising walkathon for Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry was held in 1996. The Bethel Bible Seminary made CPE/PCE program a compulsory subject for master students, enabling further development of CPE/PCE training. The Association became the affiliated member of ACPE of the States. Rev. William W.L.Lam was appointed as Acting General Secretary in 1996(General Secretary.in 97).		Joint fundraising walkathon

1997-98

1997-98: Merge and Relocation
Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital was relocated to Tai Po in 1997. CPE program was also started in June. The Grantham Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital and Wah Tung Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry were merged and formed the South West Hong Kong Hospital Christian Chaplaincy Company Limited.	Nethersole CPE supervisors and students	Ceremony for merging of South West H.K.Hospitals (1998)

1999: Recognition of CPE training
Alice Ho Miu Ling Netherole Hospital as well as the H.K. Baptist Hospital were accredited by the ACPE supervisor after assessment. The CPE training of both hospitals were confirmed to achieve ACPE standard. Alice Ho Miu Ling Netherole Hospital held a meeting for all local CPE students for exchanging ideas. Rev. Law Kit-choi was appointed as General Secretary of the Association and in the same year the Association received a donation of HK$3million for loan repayment of the premises.		Nethersole Hospital was presented the Certificate of Accreditaion.

2000-03

2000-2001: Hospital Chaplain Missionary / Website for chaplaincy ministry
A handbook was published by the Association to promote the concept of “Hospital Chaplain Missionary”. The Cheung Chau Church of CCC responded and financially supported Rev. Law as General Secretary from 2001 to 2002. The Association set up website with the domain name www.hospitalchap.org.hk and purchased computers for all chaplaincy offices.		Rev. Law and his wife at the ceremony for “Hospital Chaplain Missionary”(2001)

2002-03: Mission re-integration/ New milestone for chaplain missionary / Responding SARS
The conference of “Holistic Healing” was jointly held by all chaplaincy offices with an objective to help doctors, nurses, hospital chaplains and church pastors to re-consider, re-integrate and re-undertake the hospital caring mission. Chaplain Wei Kai-chi was supported by AHML Nethersole Hospital Christian Fellowship and the Truth Baptist Church and became the first hospital chaplain missionary who serves in hospitals of Shatin district The Association set up the subsidy scheme for CPE & Pastoral Care Training. It aimed at encouraging hospital chaplains to receive on-job training for personal growth and improvement of service quality. The H.K. Baptist Hospital further developed CPE training with Rev. Lo Wai-chuen conferred as CPE supervisor in 2002. In 2003 the Baptist Hospital became an affiliated member of ACPE of the States. The Association joined hands with various chaplaincy offices, local churches, fellowship groups at hospitals and Christian organizations to launch a series of support actions which was appreciated by the Hospital Authority		The seminar for “Showing care in SARS” (left: Prof. Joseph Sung, right: Dr. Ko Wing- man.)
Responding SARS: ad hoc prayer meeting	Responding SARS: volunteers assist in surgical mask wrapping	Caring action in SARS : distributing facial masks and VCD to citizens of Ngau Tau Kok
Speakers for the Conference of “Holistic Healing”(2002)	Chaplain Wei at the sending ceremony (2002)	Responding SARS: “ A Cup of Cold Water” fundraising campaign

2004

2004: 20th Anniversary of Chaplaincy Services
The Bethel Bible Seminary was authorized by CPSP of the States to set up the Institute of Pastoral Training in H.K., which became the first training and assessment centre of CPSP in South East Asia. All of the hospital chaplaincy committees jointly organized the 20th anniversary for chaplaincy services. Celebration events included exhibitions at hospitals, seminars by cluster, “Walking Together” and “Thanksgiving Banquet” etc.		Walking Togther
Bethel Bible Seminary ~ Institute of Pastoral Training	Committee meeting for 20^th Anniversary	Thanksgiving Banquet (chaplains’ singing performance)

2005-09

2005-09: Professional development / 25th Anniversary of Chaplaincy Service
Starting from 2005, the Chaplains’Day was held yearly with an aim to gather all local chaplains and foster sharing and learning.
Chaplains’ Day 2005	Chaplains’ Day 2006	Chaplains’ Day 2007
A taskforce was set up in 2006 to study the professional growth of chaplains and a survey has been done. In 2007, a Steering Committee was set up and under which a work group was formed to draft related documents for establishing professional standards for both the qualification of chaplains as well as the chaplaincy service. The documents were sent to all chaplains for consultation and were finalized in 2008.	Members of the Steering Committee	Members of the Work Group
The Hospital Pastoral Day for Seminary Students was consecutively held from 2007 to 2009 and was well received by seminary students. The event was co-organized by theological seminaries belonging to Hong Kong Theological Education Association. Through seminar and workshops, students have more understanding of hospital pastoral care as well as the mission and role of local churches in the community.	Hospital Pastoral Day 2007	Hospital Pastoral Day 2008
All of the hospital chaplaincy committees jointly organized the 25th anniversary for chaplaincy service. A video film titled “One Passion” was shown on website which covers the history as well as forthcoming development of the chaplaincy ministry. Other events included the Silver Chaplains’ Day, Hospital Pastoral Day for church pastors and leaders as well as the Thanksgiving Celebration.	Chaplains' Day 2009	Chaplains' Day 2009
Hospital Pastoral Day	Hospital Pastoral Day	Hospital Pastoral Day
Thanksgiving Celebration	Thanksgiving Celebration	Thanksgiving Celebration

2010-13

2010~2013 Registration of Chaplains / Advanced training & learning
Rev. Van Wan Chuen Lo joined AHKHCCM in Jan 2010 as the Professional Development & Pastoral Education Supervisor (currently the Associate General Secretary) and was taking the lead in professional development as well as CPE training.	Autumn CPE 2010	Spring CPE 2011
Summer CPE 2011	Autumn CPE 2011	Summer CPE 2012
Rev. Lo made a special trip to the U.S. in April 2010 and attended annual conference for: College of Pastoral Supervision and Psychotherapy (CPSP), Association of Professional Chaplains (APC) and Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE). In addition to promoting the development of professional chaplaincy in Hong Kong, he has also successfully formed a network of overseas consultants.
Annual Conference (CPSP)	Annual Conference (APC)	Annual Conference (ACPE)
The AHKHCCM continued to organize the annual Chaplains’ Day. Starting from 2011, a Joint Thanksgiving Banquet was also held on the evening of the Chaplains’ Day where frontline chaplains and chaplaincy committee members gathered together for celebrating the fruit of success for the past year.	Chaplains' Day 2011	Thanksgiving banquet 2011
Chaplains' Day 2012	Thanksgiving banquet 2012	Thanksgiving banquet 2012
The implementation of chaplain registration started in 2011 with 74 members successfully registered and certificates were conferred during the Joint Thanksgiving Banquet.
Apart from the annul Pastoral Day for Seminarians, series of Pastoral Care Workshop were also held for church laymen. Furthermore, there were also training outside HK for church pastors and leaders.
2010 Pastoral Care Workshop	2011 Pastoral Care Workshop	2013 Pastoral Care Workshop
Training in Singapore	Training in China	Training in China
The Pastoral Volunteer Supervisor Training was held in 2011 which was a train-the-trainers program. The First Joint Education The Education Day Camp was organized in 2012 with an aim to “gather, motivate and train” volunteers who commit themselves to serve with chaplains in various hospitals.	2011 Pastoral Volunteer Supervisior Training	2012 Education Day Camp
2012 Education Day Camp	2012 Education Day Camp	2012 Education Day Camp
Study tour to Taiwan was held in both 2011 and 2012. Objectives of the tours include widening the horizon of chaplains, reflecting the role of religion on ethical issues as well as in depth learning on spiritual caring through life and death issues.
2011 Taiwan Tour	2011 Taiwan Tour	2011 Taiwan Tour
2012 Taiwan Tour	2012 Taiwan Tour	2012 Taiwan Tour
With an aim to sustain quality chaplaincy service with efficient use of resources, a certificate course with ten lessons on Chaplaincy Administration and Management was held in 2013.

2014

2014: 30th Anniversary of Chaplaincy Services

All of the hospital chaplaincy committees jointly organized the 30th anniversary for chaplaincy services with the theme of “Passing on care and love”. Celebration events included Cluster Luncheon Gatherings for church pastors and leaders, Volunteer Recognition Day, Exhibition panels setting at hospitals, Spirituality and Medicine Symposium as well as Thanksgiving Banquet. In addition, two article collections were published.

2015

Limited company registration was made on April 25, 2014 for North Lantau Island Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry with 5 founding directors in total. The first employed full time chaplain reported duty on Jan 2015 to start promoting the ministry as well as providing pastoral care and visits for inpatients.

Rev Kit Choi Law retired in Feb and Rev Van W C Lo succeeded as the 4^th General Secretary for AHKHCCM in March.

With reference to the standards of Association of Professional Chaplains, Inc, USA (APC), the Association has issued local guidelines and manuals for Professional Chaplain Certification which started since 2012. The Association also organized study groups to help applicants more familiar with the preparation. There were 16 local chaplains certified as of Dec 2015 with 100% passing rate.

The Association offered 2nd full year program for CPE Residency in 2014 to 2015. A total of 6 students enrolled and the program was completed by end of August, 2015.

The Association organized a certificate course on Spiritual Care and Grief Counseling in September and October with 8 lectures. Dr. Lawrence Chen was invited as speaker and 64 chaplains participated.

The General Secretary attended the 10^th International Congress on Pastoral Care and Counseling (ICPCC). The Secretary was invited to participate in ACPE International Relations Work Group Meeting too. He also met with overseas consultants for professional development. Exhibition panels were set up during the Congress for introducing development of chaplaincy ministry in HK.

2016

2015

The Association initiated the “Hospital Chaplain Missionary Program” promoting close partnership between churches and chaplaincy ministry. Chaplain Po Wai Wong was sent from Kowloon City Swatow Christian Church and employed by Shatin Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry for a two year contract in Jan, 2016.

The Hospital Pastoral Day for Seminary Students was held again in 2016 and continually co-organized with all theological seminaries under Hong Kong Theological Education Association. The theme for the 7^th Hospital Pastoral Day was “ Calling among calls”. In addition to seminar, 6 workshops were held to share clinical experience on pastoral care with seminary students.

A certificate course on “Pastoral Care to the Sick”for congregational pastors was held for the first time in April. Rev. W C Lo conducted the course which comprised of 8 lessons.

The Association coordinated the annual Joint Walkathon for Hospital Chaplaincy Ministry since 1996. Thank God for a record high fund raising with amount of $3.87m in 2016.

The Professional Development Committee conducted a 10-year follow up survey in 2016 to collect feedback from both chaplains and members of local chaplaincy committees with an aim to consolidate constructive insights for moving onward to the next decade.

2017

The 8th Hospital Pastoral Day for Seminary Students was held in January, which was co-organized by 15 seminary schools. Rev. Dr. Man-Chee Kwok (President of Evangel Seminary) was invited to speak on the topic “The greatest of these is love”. In addition, eight workshops were held by chaplains who shared their clinical experience with seminary students.

The General Secretary attended the Annual Congress as well as 50^th Anniversary of ACPE in May. AHKHCCM has been International Affiliate of ACPE since 1999 and from 2010 the ACPE also became honorary overseas consultant for professional development of chaplains in Hong Kong. The anniversary events attracted over 600 participants both locally and from overseas. Exhibition panels were set up for introducing development of chaplaincy ministry in HK.

The Training Day Camp for chaplaincy volunteers was firstly held five years ago. It was held again at Hong Kong Baptist Theological Seminary in 2017 with participants from 17 chaplaincy offices. Through various program and workshop sessions, volunteers were gathered, motivated and trained.

The Professional Development Committee of AHKHCCM has been offering tutorial service and interviews for chaplain certification since 2012. Chaplains are required to demonstrate their clinical integration and reflective practice. There are 20 certified chaplains as of 2017.