Dear Church,
Greetings in the blessed name of Jesus!
After many, many hours of flying and transits, we have finally landed in the Big Apple, New York City. I will be here for the next 2 weeks speaking for Dr. Robb Thompson and also for Ps. Daniel. Esther will be here for a bit longer as she has been accepted into an NYU summer program. She will be doing a course in drama and performing arts so that she can take our church productions to a new level. May I ask all of you to keep praying for us? One of the reasons why we embark on this as a church is because I want our church to relevantly connect with those around us. I want the message of our Lord to inspire and to transform lives. In the future, I hope we can send more people to take such courses. I am sure all of us would benefit from it. Attached in this week's Pastor Writes is one of my devotional on church relevance. Be blessed and continue to love and serve each other as our Lord has taught us.
Love you all heaps,
Kevin
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Hi Church,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the fathers a happy and blessed Father’s Day! I pray that the LORD will bless all your endeavors and grant you success in every area of your life. As fathers, you have always been a great role model and support for all of us. Today, we want to take this time to honor you and tell you that we love and respect you! We love you, dad! And to show you our appreciation, we have prepared a special service together with a drama and a song item together with a special father’s day gift!
City Harvest KL is rather young as a church. We are only in our ninth year and most of our leaders and members are in their 20’s. As such, the majority of us are still not married! Therefore, young as we are, and given this opportunity we need to learn as much as we can of how a godly father should be so that we can start a strong and healthy family in the future.
As Asians, we seldom talk about our fathers and we seldom appreciate them as we do our mothers. We tend to be less emotional and less expressive. We tend to hug less and we hardly share our feelings with them or about them. We have a preconceived idea about them that I think is not right. As a church, I want us to change that. And the best way to do that is by replacing the old mindsets. Begin to praise them and appreciate them. Show them that you respect them even if you do not agree with them. Honor them in front of others. Say good things about them. I believe this is how Jesus wants us to honor our fathers.
Church, let’s pioneer a new mindset in this generation where our fathers are respected and honored, where we are not ashamed of them and where we can freely share our feelings with them and about them.
Let the fathers lead. Let our fathers have their rightful place in history.
With prayers and blessings,
KEV
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
First and foremost, I would like to take this opportunity to wish all the fathers a happy and blessed Father’s Day! I pray that the LORD will bless all your endeavors and grant you success in every area of your life. As fathers, you have always been a great role model and support for all of us. Today, we want to take this time to honor you and tell you that we love and respect you! We love you, dad! And to show you our appreciation, we have prepared a special service together with a drama and a song item together with a special father’s day gift!
City Harvest KL is rather young as a church. We are only in our ninth year and most of our leaders and members are in their 20’s. As such, the majority of us are still not married! Therefore, young as we are, and given this opportunity we need to learn as much as we can of how a godly father should be so that we can start a strong and healthy family in the future.
As Asians, we seldom talk about our fathers and we seldom appreciate them as we do our mothers. We tend to be less emotional and less expressive. We tend to hug less and we hardly share our feelings with them or about them. We have a preconceived idea about them that I think is not right. As a church, I want us to change that. And the best way to do that is by replacing the old mindsets. Begin to praise them and appreciate them. Show them that you respect them even if you do not agree with them. Honor them in front of others. Say good things about them. I believe this is how Jesus wants us to honor our fathers.
Church, let’s pioneer a new mindset in this generation where our fathers are respected and honored, where we are not ashamed of them and where we can freely share our feelings with them and about them.
Let the fathers lead. Let our fathers have their rightful place in history.
With prayers and blessings,
KEV
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Hi Church,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
Welcome back to church once again! It is always good to see so many people coming to the house of God to worship Jesus!
This weekend I won’t be preaching as I am speaking at the Boys’ Brigade National Camp called ‘Pesta’ in Penang. A total of 1600 boys and girls had signed up for the camp and I will speaking on Sunday morning. Church, please pray for me so that I can lead as many as possible to the saving grace of our LORD. This is a golden opportunity for all these young people to hear of the gospel. And in order to support this work, I have also asked quite a number of our leaders to come along to help. I am believing God for a mighty harvest!
Actually, the last time I spoke at a BB Pesta was about 10 years ago. That time, I was still with my former church and we drove all the way to Setiawan on a Sunday afternoon. That camp saw more than 300 decisions for the LORD and out of that I met people like Kee Wee, Chu Ern, Poh Hin and a few others. The LORD works in miraculous ways. I pray that through this camp, there will be a lot more like-minded and same-spirited people, including those who are newly saved, who will come to be a part of our church family. Amen!
On the home front, our dear North Zone Supervisor David Oh will be preaching. He has always been a fantastic teacher and preacher and I am sure you will be blessed by the sermon that he has prepared for you this weekend.
Church, once again, I want to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to build strong, meaningful relationships with one another. As our church is growing and getting larger, sometimes, we may miss out on what is more precious and meaningful. Do not let the devil come in between our relationships with one another and with the LORD, Amen?
Serving with you,
KEV
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
Welcome back to church once again! It is always good to see so many people coming to the house of God to worship Jesus!
This weekend I won’t be preaching as I am speaking at the Boys’ Brigade National Camp called ‘Pesta’ in Penang. A total of 1600 boys and girls had signed up for the camp and I will speaking on Sunday morning. Church, please pray for me so that I can lead as many as possible to the saving grace of our LORD. This is a golden opportunity for all these young people to hear of the gospel. And in order to support this work, I have also asked quite a number of our leaders to come along to help. I am believing God for a mighty harvest!
Actually, the last time I spoke at a BB Pesta was about 10 years ago. That time, I was still with my former church and we drove all the way to Setiawan on a Sunday afternoon. That camp saw more than 300 decisions for the LORD and out of that I met people like Kee Wee, Chu Ern, Poh Hin and a few others. The LORD works in miraculous ways. I pray that through this camp, there will be a lot more like-minded and same-spirited people, including those who are newly saved, who will come to be a part of our church family. Amen!
On the home front, our dear North Zone Supervisor David Oh will be preaching. He has always been a fantastic teacher and preacher and I am sure you will be blessed by the sermon that he has prepared for you this weekend.
Church, once again, I want to take this opportunity to encourage all of you to build strong, meaningful relationships with one another. As our church is growing and getting larger, sometimes, we may miss out on what is more precious and meaningful. Do not let the devil come in between our relationships with one another and with the LORD, Amen?
Serving with you,
KEV
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Hi Church,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
WOW! What a week we have had in Singapore! I am sure all of us have truly enjoyed and been blessed by Asia Conference. Throughout the week, I received so many praise reports and testimonies of how God had blessed them and enlarged their spiritual capacities. I am excited. But at the same time, I also know that it requires much physical stamina and strength to keep waking up early every morning, queuing up for every service and some of us even signed up for being seat-fillers. As your pastor, I want to express my gratitude for your flexibility and understanding. I know not everything could be arranged perfectly. Sometimes there were quite a bit of last minute changes and adjustments. I want to apologize for all that and hope you allow us to improve ourselves in the coming year. Having said all these, I want to say a SUPER BIG THANK YOU to our ASIA CONFERENCE admin team spearheaded by Shirley Boon. They have truly done an amazing job of planning, arranging, booking, communicating and making sure everything is taken care of. I know they have spent many sleepless nights of looking into every bit of detail. Without them, we would have never been able to enjoy the conference as much as we did. So, after the service this weekend, please make sure that you thank the team and appreciate them.
Apart from this, I also want to take this opportunity to congratulate our POS team led by Sarah Ho and all our performers! CHCKL has won! WOW! What an achievement! All of you have done us proud as we showcase our God-given talent to the world!
Church, I pray, in our pursuit of excellence, let us not forget to build a healthy and strong relationship with God and one another. Take time to understand one another, pray for another and carry each other’s burden. This is what a spiritual family is all about, AMEN?
Serving you,
KEV
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
WOW! What a week we have had in Singapore! I am sure all of us have truly enjoyed and been blessed by Asia Conference. Throughout the week, I received so many praise reports and testimonies of how God had blessed them and enlarged their spiritual capacities. I am excited. But at the same time, I also know that it requires much physical stamina and strength to keep waking up early every morning, queuing up for every service and some of us even signed up for being seat-fillers. As your pastor, I want to express my gratitude for your flexibility and understanding. I know not everything could be arranged perfectly. Sometimes there were quite a bit of last minute changes and adjustments. I want to apologize for all that and hope you allow us to improve ourselves in the coming year. Having said all these, I want to say a SUPER BIG THANK YOU to our ASIA CONFERENCE admin team spearheaded by Shirley Boon. They have truly done an amazing job of planning, arranging, booking, communicating and making sure everything is taken care of. I know they have spent many sleepless nights of looking into every bit of detail. Without them, we would have never been able to enjoy the conference as much as we did. So, after the service this weekend, please make sure that you thank the team and appreciate them.
Apart from this, I also want to take this opportunity to congratulate our POS team led by Sarah Ho and all our performers! CHCKL has won! WOW! What an achievement! All of you have done us proud as we showcase our God-given talent to the world!
Church, I pray, in our pursuit of excellence, let us not forget to build a healthy and strong relationship with God and one another. Take time to understand one another, pray for another and carry each other’s burden. This is what a spiritual family is all about, AMEN?
Serving you,
KEV
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