He said he wants to “bring relief, share the gospel, and plant churches among” the “ultra poor”.
He revealed his plans to move to Hong Kong next year with this family during his final chapel service at Azusa Pacific University in California on Wednesday.
Chan said the idea to make the big move came during a visit to Myanmar with his family a few months ago.
“We were just with a translator going from hut to hut in these slums, trying to explain to people who Jesus is,” he said.
“These people had never even heard of Him and the eagerness, the way they listened, seeing people get baptised — it was just like, wow, what do we do on a normal day that even compares to this?
“As we got on the plane home, I was like, ‘Honey, I think it’s time to move’.”
Chan said during his sermon that he had some frustrations about Christian leadership in the US.
“I describe it like this: I feel like I’ve been fishing in the same pond my whole life and now there’s like thousands of other fishermen at the same pond, and our lines are getting tangled and everyone’s fighting over stupid things, and one guy tries some new lure and we go, ‘Oh, he caught a fish, let’s all try his method!’ And it just feels like, what are we all doing here?”
“What if I heard of a lake that’s like a five-mile hike away, and no one’s fishing it. And they’re saying, ‘Man, the fish are biting — just throw a hook…
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