Hi Church,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
How are you doing? I pray that this mail finds you blessed and well. As of this weekend, it will be the 4th weekend that I am not around. This is by far the longest that I have ever been away from our churc ever since we started 9 years ago.
Initially, I was not sure if I should be away for so long but due to the many changes to our new building and the need to re-plan and re-design our new worship facility, I decided to stay here a bit longer to think through things. I thought being away would help me think out-of-the-box and see things from a different perspective. And it has indeed helped me in that end. Being in New York and seeing a variety of structures, especially the ‘Rent’ style metal decking and fire escape stairs... I have quite a few new ideas for our church and of course, most importantly building it cheaper too. I will come back with lots of new ideas not just for our new building but also for our church as a whole. I believe it is going to be one very exciting season ahead of us. :)
Having said that, I want to thank you for your understanding in allowing me to be away for so long. I never had this opportunity to just be away and think through the works and the ministries of our church in the past. It has indeed refreshed me and helped me a lot. On top of that, I also have ample time to think through my Doctoral thesis, which will eventually help to implement a new integrated management system for our church.
I am very excited about the future. Next year, we will be celebrating our 10th anniversary. On top of that, we are going to embark on a lot of new life-changing and community-transforming ministries that we have never done before. As your pastor, I would like to ask you to pray with me and prepare ourselves for such great work ahead. I believe with all my heart, our work will leave behind a spiritual legacy for many generations to come!
Love you all heaps and miss you a lot too...
Your friend,
KEV
Sunday, July 18, 2010
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Hi Church,
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
First and foremost, I would like to warmly welcome Ps. Andrew Gray into our midst. He is the Senior Minister of Mount Annan CCC in Sydney, Australia. Over the years, Ps. Andrew and I have become great friends... and I am sure he is going to share a great Word with us this weekend. Hence, please make sure that you come to church prepared and ready to receive. I know the Word is going to transform your life.
At this point, let me just give you a little update about New York. Esther has been studying at NYU for about 2 weeks now. She has classes everyday and needs to attend plays in the evenings as well. I would join her at times. But not all the plays are like Phantom of the Opera. Some of them are really pretty challenging... if you get what I mean ;)
Apart from that, I spend my days praying, reading, and planning for the next phase of our church. We are entering a very crucial period in our church life where I have to make a lot of decisions regarding how to expand our ministry and increase the capacity that God has given to us as a church. Thus, I need this time away to pray and strategize. I will be away for quite a while (the longest I have ever been) this time round, hence I covet your prayers and your maturity in looking after the church. On top of that, I also trust that the leadership of our church which is spearheaded by Keith, David and the rest of the team will do a great job! After all, this church is built over the years through the love and sacrifice of a bunch of great people and not just one person... therefore, it shall continue that way!
In the meantime, continue to pray in order to build a strong inner-man. Nothing can help us build a closer relationship with God other than prayer, worship and His Word.
Love you guys and miss you heaps too,
KEV
Greetings in the wonderful name of Jesus!
First and foremost, I would like to warmly welcome Ps. Andrew Gray into our midst. He is the Senior Minister of Mount Annan CCC in Sydney, Australia. Over the years, Ps. Andrew and I have become great friends... and I am sure he is going to share a great Word with us this weekend. Hence, please make sure that you come to church prepared and ready to receive. I know the Word is going to transform your life.
At this point, let me just give you a little update about New York. Esther has been studying at NYU for about 2 weeks now. She has classes everyday and needs to attend plays in the evenings as well. I would join her at times. But not all the plays are like Phantom of the Opera. Some of them are really pretty challenging... if you get what I mean ;)
Apart from that, I spend my days praying, reading, and planning for the next phase of our church. We are entering a very crucial period in our church life where I have to make a lot of decisions regarding how to expand our ministry and increase the capacity that God has given to us as a church. Thus, I need this time away to pray and strategize. I will be away for quite a while (the longest I have ever been) this time round, hence I covet your prayers and your maturity in looking after the church. On top of that, I also trust that the leadership of our church which is spearheaded by Keith, David and the rest of the team will do a great job! After all, this church is built over the years through the love and sacrifice of a bunch of great people and not just one person... therefore, it shall continue that way!
In the meantime, continue to pray in order to build a strong inner-man. Nothing can help us build a closer relationship with God other than prayer, worship and His Word.
Love you guys and miss you heaps too,
KEV
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Hi Church,
Greetings from The Big Apple, New York City!
Hi! How are you doing? I pray that this week’s Pastor Writes finds you blessed and well. My family and I have been here for almost a week now and time really does fly. Last weekend, I went to speak for Ps. Robb Thompson at Tinley Park, Chicago. It was a good experience for me as I learnt how to minister to people from another nation. I have gained much experience as a result of it and learnt how to communicate with them. I shared with them how to discover our destiny in God. I am glad that the message spoke to them. It was fulfilling to see lives touched and changed by God. I spoke again on Sunday evening and this time to a larger crowd. It was the main service of Family Harvest Church. This time round, I shared with them the need to be servants in the house of God, of how we should serve willingly and cheerfully. I feel in my heart that this is the missing link in many of our churches today. A lot of people just go to church to perform a duty. To be able to serve God is a privilege and we ought to realize this. God does not owe us anything. We should serve out of gratitude. Amen?
After that, I came back to NY on Monday. The whole week was spent with my wife and David, talking about God, church, ministry and life. I have been praying and thinking a lot. When I come back, I will share with you from my heart, the many new things that God has put within me. It is going to be one new exciting season for all of us. I want us to grow as a church but not just numerically. I want our lives to be enriched and empowered so that we can truly add values into the lives of those we minister to. I will share with you some exciting thoughts that most of us would never think of. It will bless your heart and our community.
Church, let us strive to be a blessing and be an asset in the place that God has called us. Let us use our gifts and our talents to transform our world for the better.
Serving with you,
KEV
Greetings from The Big Apple, New York City!
Hi! How are you doing? I pray that this week’s Pastor Writes finds you blessed and well. My family and I have been here for almost a week now and time really does fly. Last weekend, I went to speak for Ps. Robb Thompson at Tinley Park, Chicago. It was a good experience for me as I learnt how to minister to people from another nation. I have gained much experience as a result of it and learnt how to communicate with them. I shared with them how to discover our destiny in God. I am glad that the message spoke to them. It was fulfilling to see lives touched and changed by God. I spoke again on Sunday evening and this time to a larger crowd. It was the main service of Family Harvest Church. This time round, I shared with them the need to be servants in the house of God, of how we should serve willingly and cheerfully. I feel in my heart that this is the missing link in many of our churches today. A lot of people just go to church to perform a duty. To be able to serve God is a privilege and we ought to realize this. God does not owe us anything. We should serve out of gratitude. Amen?
After that, I came back to NY on Monday. The whole week was spent with my wife and David, talking about God, church, ministry and life. I have been praying and thinking a lot. When I come back, I will share with you from my heart, the many new things that God has put within me. It is going to be one new exciting season for all of us. I want us to grow as a church but not just numerically. I want our lives to be enriched and empowered so that we can truly add values into the lives of those we minister to. I will share with you some exciting thoughts that most of us would never think of. It will bless your heart and our community.
Church, let us strive to be a blessing and be an asset in the place that God has called us. Let us use our gifts and our talents to transform our world for the better.
Serving with you,
KEV
Sunday, June 27, 2010
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
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 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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