Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings in the mighty name of Jesus!
First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Ps. Joakim into our midst. It is truly a great blessing to have him here with us to encourage and inspire us how to win teenagers and high school students into the kingdom of God. There is an anointing in Ps. Joakim’s life so I want to ask all of you to come prepared to draw from this man of God!
This week, Keith will be running all our services. I am not around as I am preaching for Ps. Andrew Gray in Sydney, Australia. Initially, I was scheduled to speak for him in August but that didn’t work out because I was in Singapore. I will be speaking for him for 2 services on Sunday and after that, I will be speaking for Ps. John Lee of Sydney Harvest Church. My schedule is quite tight for the next couple of months so may I ask all of you to fervently pray and intercede for me. Travelling to other countries is very important for my wife and I because it opens our mind and change the way we think. It helps us to free up some space in our head so that we can have new rooms for creativity. It is like defragmenting our hard disk. Every time I come back from an overseas trip, God would give me new ideas and new strategies for our church. He would show me new things He wants me to do in the coming year and also plans that He wants me to put in place. With this, I am able to keep growing our church and taking it to the next level. I believe this applies to all of us as well.
We need to take time off from time to time so that we may have time to think and reflect, to re-evaluate and change some of the ways we do certain things. This simple step can take us a long way.
Friends, let us unclutter our minds and make room for God’s Holy Spirit to do new creative work in us.
God bless and have a great week ahead!
KEV
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings in the mighty name of Jesus!
Phew! After 9 days of travelling between Taiwan and Singapore, I am finally back in hazy-but-still-home, Kuala Lumpur. No matter what, it is always nice to be back – nothing beats lying on your own bed and hanging out with all my beloved family and friends! This trip to Taiwan is truly an eye-opener for me. I learnt so much on how to creatively reach out to our family and friends. Traditionally, the approach used for effective evangelism is one that is direct. We preach the gospel and people get saved. Or we go to visit them at their homes and invite them to church. This is still a good approach but it is certainly not the only way of reaching out to our friends.
I want to encourage all of us to creatively reach out to our friends by building lots of bridges. This can be done through doing life together. We can do so by organizing cooking lessons, picnic, Amazing Race, karaoke sessions, wine appreciation, facial, spa, extreme makeover or… just basically everything and anything that you guys enjoy doing. What I am suggesting is that we invite friends to be a part of what we are already doing. On the other hand, we can also participate or organize things that our friends like to do. The whole aim is to make evangelism a lifestyle instead of a program. This approach may not be as direct as the approach used before but I am confident that it can help us to win more friends unto the LORD in the days to come. The world is changing. Hence, the way we win our friends also have to change. But ultimately, we must be sincere. Our love for them ought to be genuine, truly desiring to see them changed by the love of Christ. Well, I once read, ‘You can’t be wrong when you love!’ So, City Harvest, let us practice that. Let us learn to be more accepting, more forgiving, more embracing and more loving as we live our lives to shine forth the love and the glory of Christ.
I am EXCITED,
KEV
Greetings in the mighty name of Jesus!
Phew! After 9 days of travelling between Taiwan and Singapore, I am finally back in hazy-but-still-home, Kuala Lumpur. No matter what, it is always nice to be back – nothing beats lying on your own bed and hanging out with all my beloved family and friends! This trip to Taiwan is truly an eye-opener for me. I learnt so much on how to creatively reach out to our family and friends. Traditionally, the approach used for effective evangelism is one that is direct. We preach the gospel and people get saved. Or we go to visit them at their homes and invite them to church. This is still a good approach but it is certainly not the only way of reaching out to our friends.
I want to encourage all of us to creatively reach out to our friends by building lots of bridges. This can be done through doing life together. We can do so by organizing cooking lessons, picnic, Amazing Race, karaoke sessions, wine appreciation, facial, spa, extreme makeover or… just basically everything and anything that you guys enjoy doing. What I am suggesting is that we invite friends to be a part of what we are already doing. On the other hand, we can also participate or organize things that our friends like to do. The whole aim is to make evangelism a lifestyle instead of a program. This approach may not be as direct as the approach used before but I am confident that it can help us to win more friends unto the LORD in the days to come. The world is changing. Hence, the way we win our friends also have to change. But ultimately, we must be sincere. Our love for them ought to be genuine, truly desiring to see them changed by the love of Christ. Well, I once read, ‘You can’t be wrong when you love!’ So, City Harvest, let us practice that. Let us learn to be more accepting, more forgiving, more embracing and more loving as we live our lives to shine forth the love and the glory of Christ.
I am EXCITED,
KEV
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings from sunny Singapore!
For the past 2 weeks I have been travelling. Last week I was in Taipei, visiting Ps. Abraham Ku’s church (New Life Church) and also spent some very quality time with Ps. Kong. It was a very fruitful trip as my eyes and heart was opened to a whole new world of creativity within the body of Christ. After that, I spent a week in Singapore, speaking for Ps. Seow How, teaching his church how to creatively reach out to the people in their community. It was another very fruitful trip. I have also brought along our band to minister. I believe they will do a good job this weekend.
Of late, I have been encouraging all our leaders and members to be more involved in short-term mission work. This is very important because it opens our eyes to the actual needs of those around us and infuses in us a passion to continually run this race. The world is lost without Jesus. We cannot lie idle hoping someone will do the job. As a church, as a body of Christ, we need to rise up and answer the call of God. I want to challenge all of us that in the midst of your busyness and the many things that you want to do, please also take some time out to minister to these people. I believe it will energize your life and change your entire outlook about who we are and what we have. At the moment, we have already run 3 trips. And at this point of time, we have a team ministering in Medan. There will be more in the coming months. Next year, I am hoping to send at least 25 teams to different countries in Asia. I want to challenge you to be a part of it. I want to inspire you to live for a bigger vision.
So, church, let’s gear ourselves up for mission and expand the kingdom of God. Let’s do whatever we can to be a blessing to those around us. With this in mind, I am sure we will make our world a better place!
In Him,
KEV
Greetings from sunny Singapore!
For the past 2 weeks I have been travelling. Last week I was in Taipei, visiting Ps. Abraham Ku’s church (New Life Church) and also spent some very quality time with Ps. Kong. It was a very fruitful trip as my eyes and heart was opened to a whole new world of creativity within the body of Christ. After that, I spent a week in Singapore, speaking for Ps. Seow How, teaching his church how to creatively reach out to the people in their community. It was another very fruitful trip. I have also brought along our band to minister. I believe they will do a good job this weekend.
Of late, I have been encouraging all our leaders and members to be more involved in short-term mission work. This is very important because it opens our eyes to the actual needs of those around us and infuses in us a passion to continually run this race. The world is lost without Jesus. We cannot lie idle hoping someone will do the job. As a church, as a body of Christ, we need to rise up and answer the call of God. I want to challenge all of us that in the midst of your busyness and the many things that you want to do, please also take some time out to minister to these people. I believe it will energize your life and change your entire outlook about who we are and what we have. At the moment, we have already run 3 trips. And at this point of time, we have a team ministering in Medan. There will be more in the coming months. Next year, I am hoping to send at least 25 teams to different countries in Asia. I want to challenge you to be a part of it. I want to inspire you to live for a bigger vision.
So, church, let’s gear ourselves up for mission and expand the kingdom of God. Let’s do whatever we can to be a blessing to those around us. With this in mind, I am sure we will make our world a better place!
In Him,
KEV
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Dear Family and Friends,
Greetings in the blessed name of Jesus!
Welcome back to church once again! I trust that you have had a good week and thoroughly enjoyed last weekend’s musical, ‘Will You Marry Me?’ Firstly, I want to congratulate all those who have made a decision to follow Jesus. It is my prayer that you remain rooted in the church and continue to grow in the LORD. If you have yet to find yourself a cell group, please let us know. We will try to find a suitable one for you. Secondly, I want to thank all my cast and crew for their hard work and commitment. All of you guys have done stunningly well! It is simply amazing. I am so thankful to have you guys in my team and I am just so proud of you! *Clap* *Clap* With you guys being a part of this team, I honestly believe we will do far greater things for the LORD! By the way, make sure the rest of you buy the DVD and send it to all your family and friends! Thank you. Thirdly, I want to thank all of you for inviting so many friends to church last weekend. I heard there was one cell group who invited 75 friends to church! WOW! My heart leapt with joy when I heard that. And because of all your hard work and commitment, we broke yet another record attendance. I will have Keith to announce it to you during the service… ;) it is more than 3000 people, so be excited…
I remember many years ago, Ps. Kong told us that revival is spelt HARDWORK. And I am beginning to see it happening! ;) If we truly desire to see the kingdom of God enlarged and see many of our family and friends saved, we must be prepared to work. We need to continually pray for them, reach out to them, do Bible-study with them and disciple them into the image of God. This is not something that will happen overnight. It is a process, a journey that takes a lifetime. So church, I want to encourage and inspire you to commit yourself to do this and finish the race. Don’t just be a good starter! Be a strong finisher as well! If we can commit our lives to do this, I believe we will see our entire generation transformed for Jesus!
Excited about the future,
KEV
Greetings in the blessed name of Jesus!
Welcome back to church once again! I trust that you have had a good week and thoroughly enjoyed last weekend’s musical, ‘Will You Marry Me?’ Firstly, I want to congratulate all those who have made a decision to follow Jesus. It is my prayer that you remain rooted in the church and continue to grow in the LORD. If you have yet to find yourself a cell group, please let us know. We will try to find a suitable one for you. Secondly, I want to thank all my cast and crew for their hard work and commitment. All of you guys have done stunningly well! It is simply amazing. I am so thankful to have you guys in my team and I am just so proud of you! *Clap* *Clap* With you guys being a part of this team, I honestly believe we will do far greater things for the LORD! By the way, make sure the rest of you buy the DVD and send it to all your family and friends! Thank you. Thirdly, I want to thank all of you for inviting so many friends to church last weekend. I heard there was one cell group who invited 75 friends to church! WOW! My heart leapt with joy when I heard that. And because of all your hard work and commitment, we broke yet another record attendance. I will have Keith to announce it to you during the service… ;) it is more than 3000 people, so be excited…
I remember many years ago, Ps. Kong told us that revival is spelt HARDWORK. And I am beginning to see it happening! ;) If we truly desire to see the kingdom of God enlarged and see many of our family and friends saved, we must be prepared to work. We need to continually pray for them, reach out to them, do Bible-study with them and disciple them into the image of God. This is not something that will happen overnight. It is a process, a journey that takes a lifetime. So church, I want to encourage and inspire you to commit yourself to do this and finish the race. Don’t just be a good starter! Be a strong finisher as well! If we can commit our lives to do this, I believe we will see our entire generation transformed for Jesus!
Excited about the future,
KEV
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