Sunday, June 19, 2011

Dear Church,

Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!

First and foremost, I would like to wish all our grandfathers and fathers, HAPPY FATHER’s DAY!

As your pastor, I would like to tell you how much we love and appreciate you. You are very special. You are the leader of the family and also the priest of the household. On top of that, you are also the provider of the family. Very often, you sacrifice a lot of your desires to meet the needs of the family. I guess we never appreciate you enough. Most of the time, people say it is your responsibility after all and all these are expected of you. I don’t think that is right. Therefore, this week, I want to tell all our fathers that you are truly our heroes.

Thank you for giving so much into our lives. Thank you for all your love and your sacrifices. Thank you for all the hard work that you have put in. Without you, we won’t be able to enjoy what we have today. Sometimes when you do not express yourself, we blame you for not being emotional. I think that is not very fair to say that of you. I have to learn to express my gratitude. Dad, I want to tell you that you will always have the #1 place in my life. I am sorry when I hurt you and said all those nasty things to you. You don’t deserve them yet you never stopped loving me. Dad, you are amazing.

I pray that God will continue to bless you with good health and fulfillment in life, be it at home, in church or at work. I pray that you will enjoy all the fruits of your labor. I pray that God will cause His face to shine upon you. I pray that you will be happy all the days of your life. I pray... that the peace of God will be with you – always.

Dad, I love you.


Your sons and daughters,

All of us at City Harvest.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Dear Church,

Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!

Hi! How are you doing? I pray that you have had a good week. I have had a superbly, crazily busy week. After our memorable Church Wide Prayer Meeting on May 31, I left for Auckland to speak at Encounter Christian Centre’s Breakthrough Conference. It was very good because the presence of God was just so strong. On the first night, I preached on how to usher in the presence of God into our lives and our meetings. The young people responded very positively to the message and right after that, we saw 70 of them responded to the altar call! Hallelujah! The next couple of days I taught them how to be relevant in their universities and their workplace. On the final night, I shared with them the journey of our new church building. They were so excited to see what God is doing in our midst. The conference was amazing but the trip home was not. It took 11 hours and 30 minutes to reach! I never realize the journey could be so long. I slept and ate and slept and ate... :(

I came home on Tuesday night and went straight to inspect the site. Things are coming up really fast. I really need all of us to pray for the punctual completion of our new church. We are just 51 days away from moving into our new HOME! Hallelujah!

June is the month for all of us to recalibrate ourselves in the LORD. It is a month for us to strengthen ourselves and tie up all the loose ends. A time to work on our core strength.

Come July, all our CHCKL engines must get cranking again. I want to ask all of us to go all out to reach out to our family and friends, do follow-ups, invite them to church and disciple them. The past 9 months we have grown deeper... and now, it is time for us to enlarge our spiritual capacity to grow stronger and larger.
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines!

KEV

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Dear Church,

Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!

Hi! How are you doing? I pray that you are blessed and well as you come to worship God with us this weekend. It is just so good to have you here with us. If you do need anything, please feel free to speak to any of our staff and leaders.

This weekend, I am not around as I will be speaking at Breakthrough Youth and Young Adults Conference in Auckland, New Zealand. This is a conference organized by Encounter Christian Centre and Ps. Brent Douglas is the Senior Pastor here. I came here last year to speak at their church and was greatly inspired by the move of God in this place. Ps. Brent is a man very sensitive to the move of the Holy Spirit. I always find myself recharged sitting under his ministry. I’ll be back in Kuala Lumpur next Wednesday, June 8. The following day, I will be off to Sibu to speak at another youth conference organized by Ps. David Ngu. This is their Emerge. Please pray for me as I have to travel quite a fair bit and pray that God will move in the hearts of all these young people. I will be back on Saturday, just in time for our service. I know it is going to be great and I can’t wait to be with all of you again.

On another note, apart from being really busy with the construction of our new church building, I have been spending many sleepless nights writing our church’s 10th anniversary commemorative book. It is very demanding but therapeutic at the same time as I recall all of God’s mighty works in our midst. The last decade has been amazing. Every day is filled with the grace and the goodness of God. I pray that as you flip open the book and read the stories of all our leaders and members, you will be inspired, you will be touched and you will be encouraged to run and keep on running for the LORD. It will be ready soon. So, make sure you grab copies for yourself, your family and your friends. It is going to bless your life.

Love you,

KEV