Hong Kongers are boosting Britain’s church numbers
Many congregations have doubled in size
WHEN INHABITANTS of Sutton, then a parish of Surrey, gathered for the opening of Trinity Wesleyan Church in 1907, they surely never imagined that a century later its pews would be filled by colonial subjects from the Far East. They would have been baffled by sermons in a strange tongue, and texts in a foreign script. But “everything is guided by God”, says Jimmy, one of the new worshippers. “He led us to settle down here.”
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Prayers answered”
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