Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong

Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong
Logo of the TTMHK
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Lutheran, Reformed
Leader	Elder Wong Fook Yee
Associations	LWF, ALC, HKLF, HKCC
Region	Hong Kong, China
Origin	1847
Separated from	Yuexi Synod, Lutheran Church of China
Congregations	22
Members	10,600
Primary schools	4
Secondary schools	6

The Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong or TTMHK (Chinese: 基督教香港崇真會) is one of the eight Lutheran bodies in Hong Kong. It currently has approximately 10,600 members.

The current president of TTMHK is Elder Wong Fook Yee.

The TTMHK was established in its current form in 1952 although it traces its establishment back to the first Basel missions among the Hakkas in Guangdong, China in 1847. Prior to its reorganisation as an independent body, the TTMHK was one of the twenty five districts of the Yuexi Synod (Chongzhen Church) of the Lutheran Church of China.

Mission work among the Hakka people in Guangdong was initiated with the arrival of Theodore Hamberg and Rudolph Lechler of the Basel Mission in Hong Kong under the guidance of Karl Gützlaff on March 19, 1847. While missionary work was primarily done in the western part of Guangdong, the mission had its home base in Hong Kong.

Christian services in the Hakka language began in Hong Kong on February 9, 1851 and the first baptism took place on April 13 of the same year. In 1860, a residential hall and girls' school was established in Sai Ying Pun on Hong Kong Island. A congregation was eventually established in Sai Ying Pun in 1867 which became the mission centre of the Basel Mission in China and is today known as the Kau Yan Church (Chinese: 救恩堂 or Saving Grace Church).

The first Basel church in Hong Kong Island however was established in 1862 in Shau Kei Wan. The first Basel church in Kowloon was established in 1897 in Sham Shui Po while her first church in the New Territories was established in 1905.

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