The second World Chinese Women Mission Conference and Pastoral Workers & Missionaries Retreat will start on June 1, 2005 in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia.

The four-day event, under the theme of "Light Up Your Passion For Mission", will allow women serving in churches, or feelig the call to serve in world mission, to attend an intensive conference.

This event is held by the Chinese Coordination Center of World Evangelism, with the co-organizor of Sabah CCCOWE District Committee, East Malaysia. According to Rev. Dr. John Kao, General Director of CCCOWE, over 1,000 people are expected to take part in this event.

The 1st World Chinese Women Mission Conference was held by CCCOWE in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1998. Many participants expressed that the meeting helped them to realize their roles in mission, and their local woman mission was also strongly pushed forward.

The goal of the 2nd World Chinese Women Mission Conference is to help Chinese women Christians realize their roles for world mission, broaden their mission horizons, and encourage their active participation in missions. During the conference, there will be song-writers, Bible exposition, sermons and responses, seminars, workshops, missionary testimonies, and mission celebration.

Participants have the option of attending short-term mission trips held before the conference. Interested parties, however, are required to pay all expenses. After the conference, there will be a retreat open to pastors and missionaries.