Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress and
to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27
Our Mission
To strengthen and expand the impact of the Gospel of Jesus Christ among Chinese immigrants by lovingly providing services that correspond to the felt needs in that community.
The spring of 1997 was the beginning of the Sunday worship service of the Dorcas Fellowship at the Chinese Christian Herald Crusade building in Chinatown. Not only the believers came but their children, too. Soon it became apparent that there was not enough room for this ministry. One year later, through an American missionary, the two sisters were introduced to the pastor of the First Evangelical Free Church of Brooklyn and found that the church wished to start a Chinese ministry. Afterwards, in 1999, with the support of both the FEFC and the Association of North American Chinese Evangelical Free Churches, the Sunday worship meeting place of the Dorcas Fellowship moved to the building of the FEFC. With a pastor and a missionary taking care of the church, the two sisters continued their ministries at the factories.
In 2000, with the abolition of the quota for the import of textiles from China, the garment business went downhill and many factories closed, affecting most severely those factories in Chinatown, NYC. It was hard for the new immigrants to find a job in the factories and even those who were working there had to change to other trades. Seeing this group of “nomads” in the city, sisters Mo and Lee wished very much to find a place in the crowded, busy city to be a haven for these grassroots laborers, a place where they grassroots laborers, a place where they can stop by, take a rest, talk, be listened to and be served.
In 2004 God moved in the heart of a brother from the FEFC to sell his three storied building in Brooklyn to the Evangelical Free Church of America at a price significantly lower than the market price for the use of urban gospel ministries. The Dorcas Fellowship rents from them the storefront for the purpose of a community service center. In August 2005 the Dorcas Fellowship was incorporated in the state of New York under the name of Dorcas Ministries. It is an entity under the EFCA with a 501© (3) tax-exempt status. The Board of Directors, while coming from different walks of life and from different churches, shares the same vision from God. And the financial support comes from brothers and sisters who are concerned with evangelism among the Chinese immigrants.
If you wish to support the ministries, please make your donation check
Payable to Dorcas Ministries and address it to 6611 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11219.