Yim Tin Tsai is a small offshore island in Sai Kung area which was settled by the Chan's family 300 years ago. "Yim Tin" means salt-pan. In earlier days villagers of the island lived on farming and salt-making. Because of the adverse rural life in recent decades, all villagers have migrated to urban areas and overseas countries for their livings.

Evangelization in Yim Tin Tsai

• 1864 – Rev. Simeone Voloteri and Rev. Gaetano Origo arrived the island.
• 1866 – Thirty members of the Chan family in Yim Tin Tsai were baptized.
• 1875 – All villagers on the island were baptized and became devoted Catholics.
• 1879 – Rev. Josef Freinademetz, SVD set up a chapel in Yim Tin Tsai (Father Freinademetz was ordained sainthood by Pope John Paul II on 5.10.2003.)
• 1890 – The new chapel of St Joseph was completed and blessed. A school was set up adjacent to the chapel.
• Though all villagers are now settled in urban areas and overseas countries, they return to the island together to pray, to celebrate and to thank our Lord’s blessing on the feast day of St Joseph (1st May) every year

People in the exemplary devoted Christian community of Yim Tin Tsai respond to the call from our Lord encouragingly and positively. Villagers offered to priesthood and nunhood include Rt. Rev. Dominic Chan, V.G., his uncle, Rev. Joachim Chan (1890-1975), and his two old aged aunts who belong to the Congregation of the Sisters of Precious Blood and the Sisters of St. Paul de Chartres respectively.