1960’s
One weekend Pastor Stephen Wang and a team of young people from LCC came to do visitation and a gospel meeting. In that meeting about 6 people gave their lives to Christ. Seeing this as a sign of confirmation of a more permanent work in Yorkshire, the Yorkshire Chinese Christian Fellowship was inaugurated with the encouragement of Pastor Stephen Wang and some British friends in 1968. Thus through a small student fellowship, the foundation was laid for greater work to come.
在一个周末，Pastor Stephen Wang 王牧师带领 LCC 的一群年轻人来探访并举行布道会。在那次聚会中，有六个人决志信主，将生命献上给神。我们相信这是神要在约克郡开展长期事工的一个确据。于是，在 Pastor Stephen Wang 王牧师和一些英国朋友的鼓励下，Yorkshire Chinese Christian Fellowship 约郡华人基督团契 于 1968 年正式成立。
1970’s
At the end of the 70s the boat people from Vietnam arrived in England mainly as refugees. Our fellowship had the privilege to help some of them to settle in the city. God’s timing was perfect in sending a staff worker, Sister Kim Ong, from the Chinese Overseas Christian Mission (cocm) in 1977 to overseas all the small churches and fellowships in the north of England. Kim being able to speak at least 3 languages was a great help in starting our Cantonese worship service.
70年代末，有来自越南的船民陆续抵达英国，他们大多以难民身份寻求庇护。我们团契有幸协助其中一些人在利兹安顿下来。1977 年，神按着祂完美的时间，差派来自 基督教华侨布道会（简称 COCM）的 Kim Ong 翁若芬宣教士担任同工，负责牧养英国北部的各个小型教会和团契。Kim 可以使用至少三种语言，这为我们开展粤语崇拜带来了极大的帮助。
1980’s
In the 80s, we began to see some visiting scholars coming to Leeds and England for a few months’ study. Some of them came to our English meeting to practise their English. It was about that time, the UK government had a big increase in overseas student fees in the university. As a result the number of overseas student coming to Leeds had a big fall especially those from Malaysia and Singapore. This affected the English fellowship most.
80年代时，我们开始看到一些访问学者来到利兹和英格兰进行为期数月的短期进修。其中有一些人参加我们的英语崇拜，希望藉此提高英语能力。大约在同一时期，英国政府大幅提高了海外留学生的大学学费，导致来到利兹的海外留学生人数明显下降，尤其是来自马来西亚和新加坡的留学生。这对英语团契造成了很大影响。
1990’s
In the early 90s at one time the number of people coming to the English fellowship had dropped to less than 3 on one Sunday. At that time we had serious thought about closing down the English fellowship and put all our effort onto the Cantonese work. However, we were not absolutely sure and decided to go by faith to continue our outreach work to the English speaking students. We could hardly imagine what could happen in less than 5 years.
到了90年代初，英语团契曾低迷到某个主日聚会只有不到三人参加。那时，我们认真考虑过是否要结束英语团契，将所有资源集中投入粤语事工。然而，我们并不完全确定这是神的心意，因此决定凭着信心继续向英语背景的学生开展福音工作。当时的我们无法想象，在短短不到五年的时间里，神会成就怎样的工作。
