Dear Church,

Greetings in the blessed name of Jesus!

WOW! I am sure all of us have had an awesome week, especially last weekend with Bro. John Avanzini. He is indeed a prophet. He taught the Word of God so clearly and at the end of his sermon, the power of God was just so strong that all of us have had an increased measure of faith. I was challenged. I increased my pledge many times more. But I believe as we learn to stretch our faith, God will see to it that our lives continue to grow from strength to strength and from glory to glory. As your pastor, I am so proud of you. I am so inspired by your sacrifice and your commitment. Let’s pray that God will continue to increase us as we strive to build His house and do His work here on earth.

This week, I would like to share with you a little update on our church building. In about 3 months’ time, our new church building will be completed. Let’s pray for the safety and efficiency of all the workers as they are doing a great work unto the LORD. After that, we will need another month or so to test and commission all the equipment. This will take some time as we make sure that everything is working properly. At this point of time, we are hoping to have our first service at the end of July! WOO HOO! It will be a celebration of God’s goodness and faithfulness after 7 years of Arise and Build since we moved to our current building. The journey has been one challenging one, but faith-filled nonetheless. Amen!

I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your unceasing support and love for the house of God. Many of you have given your savings, postponed your holidays, chose to live with less and a lot more... but I pray that God will continue to increase and multiply you. I pray that He will continually use us as a vessel to bring forth His glory and His saving grace.

Thank you so much from the bottom of my heart,

KEV

Dear Church,

Greetings in the blessed name of Jesus!

How are you doing? I pray that this mail finds you blessed and well. It has been a while since I last wrote in this column. Of late, I have had my wife to share what is in her heart and my some of staff have also decided to take turns to write, giving our weekly church bulletin a breath of fresh air. And I think it is great!

I love CHANGE! Change is important in our lives because it motivates, or rather, forces us to adapt to new environments so that we may move on to the next level. The challenge is that sometimes we are so comfortable where we are at that we are not willing to move. Friends, I want to encourage you to keep going, to keep moving. If we allow the mundane things in life to run our lives, we may lose the passion to live this life to the fullest. It will kill off whatever zeal that is on the inside of us. Don’t stay where you are at. Take a little step today and move on!

And since I am on this note, I want to encourage all of us to prepare ourselves for the BIG MOVE! WOO HOO! I want to thank God for allowing us to use this place for the last 6 years. From a small group of only about 150 people, we are now a family of almost 1800 people! Hallelujah! We have grown! As such, I want to ask all of us to keep praying as we prepare ourselves to move. Prepare yourself physically to serve as there will be tons of new things to do. Prepare yourself spiritually as we need a bigger spiritual capacity to saturate the place with the presence of God. Prepare yourself mentally as we will need to make a lot of decisions as we expand each of our ministries.

I believe God is going to bring about a new wave of growth to our church. But for now, strengthen all the relationships that we have with one another so that when new family and friends come to our church, we have the capacity to minister to them!

I am excited,

KEV