Vancouver Chinese Christian Short Term Mission Training Centre Society
Charitable organization · Richmond, British Columbia · BN 140560020RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($447,723) as filed with the CRA.
Vancouver Chinese Christian Short Term Mission Training Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Richmond, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $404K in revenue and $448K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from donations. In 2024, 53 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $97K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
1. Training programme for christian missions 2. Evangelical meeting workshops seminars gospel tour and gospel camp 3. Free publication of truth monthly newspaper 4. Evangelistic resources such as books tapes cds 5. Overseas outside b.c. And local short term mission trip 6. Non-profit bookstores for gospel tools and evangelistic resources
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $404K | $448K | $383K | — | — | $316K |
| 2023 | $368K | $396K | $338K | — | — | $359K |
| 2022 | $318K | $424K | $367K | — | — | $388K |
| 2021 | $380K | $377K | $324K | — | $300 | $494K |
| 2020 | $526K | $434K | $364K | — | — | $491K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $97K from 53 charities:
- Fujian Evangelical Church$10K
- Richmond Chinese Evangelical Free Church$8,000
- Richmond Chinese Alliance Church$7,750
- Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church$6,750
- New Life Chinese Lutheran Church$6,216
- Fujian Evangelical Church$3,500
- Evangelical Chinese Bible Church$3,000
- Port Moody Pacific Grace MB Church$2,880
- The Vancouver Chinese Evangelical Free Church$2,700
- The Lord's Love Church Society$2,500
- Richmond Chinese Baptist Church$2,500
- Bethel Chinese Christian Mennonite Brethern Church$2,200
- Westwood Alliance Church$2,200
- Richmond Grace Alliance Church$2,083
- Pacific Grace MB Church$2,000
- Peace Evangelical Church$2,000
- Lord's Grace Church Society$2,000
- Westside Calgary Chinese Alliance Church$1,510
- Coquitlam Mandarin Church of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$1,500
- Faith Chinese North American Baptist Church$1,500
- Coquitlam Chinese Evangelical Free Church$1,500
- Pacific Grace Mandarin Church$1,500
- Immanuel Christian Reformed Church$1,500
- Ladner Christian Reformed Church$1,321
- Richmond Chinese MB Church$1,200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$323K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yiu Tong Chan (director); Matthew Lee (director); Joshua Chow (director); Tak Hong Man (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vancouver Chinese Christian Short Term Mission Training Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140560020RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.