1. Briefly describe you works in the past one
year.
The main ministry for Great Joy Learning Centre
is to serve as a bridge to reach out through teaching Chinese. We also reach
out for students/parents through some outreach activities such as movie playing
and Children’s Happy Time. This year, we also held workshops, BBQ party, tuition
classes and teachers’ training with the aid of mission trip team.
We often had opportunities to do individual
evangelism, through shopping, breakfast, to reach out to local people. When
time allows, we also play badminton with students and sometimes invite students
for meals to build deeper friendships. Thank God that 6 students accepted Jesus
this year.
2. What will be your focus or new direction for
2012?
We hope that within 3 years we will make Great
Joy a multiple-function centre. Besides teaching Chinese, all other activities
may draw people of different age groups to our centre.
Our direction is Island missionary; our
strategy is to plant churches and to train, and finally we will send. We
believe in holistic evangelism; therefore we wish to do community care and help
needy people. We wish to share our Riau Island visions to more local churches,
seek corporation and fulfill our mission. We also wish that we could assist
local churches to establish Chinese congregations, or assist in training/equipping
local coworkers/believers.
3. In what way can we support your ministry? Remember
missionaries/families/ministries in your prayers
Send mission team to assist in
teaching/workshops etc.
Individual/family participation to stay
with missionaries for several weeks.
Financial support.
4. Who is the contact person while you are
overseas?
Through Ps. Chan – our mission pastor
Brother Alan Phua –Assistant Executive
Director/Mission Director Baptist Convention; or Sister Ruth Ngoh, Coordinator
for overseas mission
Once again I want to thank God for all of you.
You opened my life into ministry. You cared for me when I was with you and you
continued to care for me even when I left you for Chengdu. May God bless all of
you.
1. Briefly describe you works in the past one
year.
2011 has been a challenging and exciting year
for me. I started doing more mission support work. I visited missionaries whom
we supported at their bases. I supported their ministry through giving training
to their members. I also began to have dialogue with various church leaders,
encouraging them to start supporting missionaries.
Besides missionary support, I also did more
training for church leaders and pastors in counseling, Bible lesson and in
preaching. A few church leaders of different churches began to keep in close
contact with me, consulting me on various topics.
2. What will be your focus or new direction for
2012?
§ I wish to make my course “Biblical View on Marriage” into a common
lesson for every young Christian.
§ I will continue my Mission support ministry – doing visitation,
encouraging more local support and mentor the Missionaries.
§ I have drawn up a training program for the missionaries. For the next 3
years, I will conduct 3 training camps per year.
§ I will continue to help churches in their pulpit ministries.
§ One new area for the coming year - I am going to set up a program to
encourage Christians in Chengdu to study the Bible seriously. I will run more
Bible appreciation classes. (Basically, whether in the city or far off
villages, people generally do not read Bible – including Church leaders and
preachers.)
§ I will help International Christian Fellowship to set up more
ministries and evangelistic works.
3. In what way can we support your ministry?
Prayer, I need people seriously praying for me.
Not just because I believe that prayer will help in my ministry but I also
believe through prayer God will tell you how you can help. Do not give me money
or do anything until you are called to do so.
4. Who is the
contact person for more information?
1. Briefly describe your works in the past one
year.
Since early Jan to May, I was assisting the
Kumming MSI-PS team in the student scholarship project. My role is to support
the team to provide member care for the students… home visits, coordinate programme
etc. Apart from the role, I was involved in other administration and doing
logistic for volunteers who support the work of MSIP-PS. As I got to know that
I may return in June 2011 because of my working visa. After discussion with
MSIPS and TRBC, both suggested that it would be good to return for the time
being and as I seek for my next step. Hence, both showed their concerned and
supported the decision to return to do a year of theological studies that will
build me up both in the spiritual and ministry aspects. Since I returned in
June, I have completed my 1st semester with BTS ( Baptist Theological Seminary) doing a advance
diploma in Christians Studies. And will start the next semester from Jan to May
2012.
2. What will be your focus or new direction for
2012?
I hope to complete my 1st half of the year on
the studies and in the mean time to seek God’s will be done if there’s an
opening to return to the field. If not, I will remain in Singapore..may opt for
further studies for personal growth that will prepare me for future ministry or
to work to gain more exposures for other opportunities.
3. In what way can we support your ministry?
Pray for clarify that the Lord will direct the
way that I should go. Pray for God guidance and to trust in Him.
1. Briefly describe you works in the past one
year.
Set up societies: Yayasan Islands Network
(await for approval) and “Society of Islands Network” (April 2011).
Missionary Training: Conduct NT survey (Book of
Gospels and Epistles) and personal evangelism. 3 members could already share
the Gospel. Completed the refurbishment of the Riau Islands Mission Boat
“Gospel”.
Brother John from Jakarta joined the Riau
Islands ministry (July).
Micro-enterprise: Started growing “South
African Leaf”, a plant proven to be anti-cancer.
Tanjong Pinang Church: Chinese congregation was
formed in Jun 2011. Indonesian Language worship started in April. Currently,
the Chinese congregation has 30 people, half being young adults. Youth Sunday
School was added in August, with 10 students & 2 teachers. Adult Sunday
School has 4 students and a teacher. Attendance for prayer meeting hover around
5 to 8 people.
2. What will be your focus or new direction for
2012?
Strengthen & expand seminary for the
missionaries, build Riau Islands Retreat Campsite, continue to promote
internship for students undergoing missionary training. Strengthen & expand
existing church, develop micro-enterprise mission work. Hopefully, to set up a
church in Sekuning and an orphanage cum children’s home too.
3. In what way can we support your ministry?
Pray for me; financial support; visit to Green
Pastures to understand the Riau Islands ministry or be a short-term volunteer
worker at Green Pasture; be a partner to the ministry or a shareholder of the
micro-enterprise mission work.
4. Who is the contact person while you are
overseas?
Tony Campolo tells the story of a friend who discovered
his true calling in life. He had been a
college English teacher, but suddenly quit his position – to become a
mailman. After hearing the man’s reasons
for resignation from teaching to become a mailman, Campolo tried to encourage
him with the old Protestant ethic: “Charlie, if you’re going to be mailman,
then be the best mailman in the world!”
To which his friend replied, “I’m a lousy mailman, Tony. I’m the last one to get back to the post
office every day, and besides, I can’t sleep at night.” When he asked for an explanation, here is
what Campolo heard: “There are so many lonely people on my route who never had
anyone visit them until I became their mailman.
Have you ever tried to sleep after drinking fifteen cups of coffee in
one day?” (Hughes, stories, pp.
337-339). Tony Campolo reached an
important conclusion about his friend Charlie: “He was alive with the excitement
that comes to a person doing something meaningful with his life.”
This is thought provoking as I think about my purpose in
life, my purpose in TRBC, my purpose in Sunset Service. What is stirring in my soul to cause me
sleepless night? Whose life am I
affecting today? What spiritual thing
excites me each day? I am still seeking,
and ‘work in progress’, but I hope you will also start thinking and feel for
your own ‘mailman’ ministries that can help to mend souls around us.
Jeremy Lim
Chairman, Sunset
council
我的反省
Tony Campolo 讲述一位朋友的呼召。他原本是位大学讲师，但突然辞去职位去当一名邮差。听了他朋友的理由后，Campolo
尝试鼓励他的朋友说:“查理，既然你要当邮差，那就当这个世界上最好的邮差。”对此他朋友回答说：“我是个没用的邮差，每天我都是最后回到邮政局，并且晚上也难以入眠。”当询问原因时，Campolo
听到的解释如下：“在我邮递的路线上住着很多孤独的老人家，一直都没有人探望他们直到我当了他们的邮差。你曾否在一天之内喝了十五杯咖啡后尝试睡觉？”Tony
Campolo对他的朋友有这样的一个结论：“他就像是一个用生命作有意义的事的人那样兴奋的活着。”
For the past two years, we have gone through the phase
of emphasizing on a worshipping lifestyle, and building of family altars. Christian living cannot be just a Sunday
business but should be connected to God with every breath we take.
Our next phase of emphasis is Discipleship. Jesus had commissioned us to make disciples
of all nations. We are all called to be
a disciple of Christ (to be Christ-like) and are thus, called Christ-ian. Discipleship is important and essential to
our Christian living. It is a process of sanctification, which we are
transformed by the Holy Spirit to bear more and more resemblance to Christ. That process starts from the heart, to get
connected to God, and works outwardly to connect to fellow Christians and to
reach out to the unsaved. Discipleship
is Christian living with accountability to God and man. We hope that every
Sunset Service member will make a commitment to God to grow spiritually and be
accountable to each other in his/her spiritual walk.
I hope that every member will take accountability in
discipleship in the following areas:
1. To
sharpen our sword through the Word of God.
To take personal discipline in maintaining consistent quiet time with
God, to memorize scriptures, to explore God’s Word collectively through CG
bible studies and to shape our vision through pulpit messages and Christian
Education.
2. To
strengthen our shields through worshipping God, and having fellowship with
brothers and sisters. To shower our
cares and love for one another in CG and ministries.
3. To
fortify our positions with prayers. We
hope to enhance our praying experiences of God through prayer meeting every
Thursday, corporate prayers during Sunday worships and prayer for each other in
CG.
4. To
multiply our strength through one-to-one discipleship. The one-to-one discipleship means that we
must be responsible for our efforts to be Christ-like and eventually, everyone
should take responsibility for someone else’s spiritual status and help them in
their spiritual struggles.
5. To
expand our influence through Evangelism and Mission. Individually and CG, we need to encourage
each other to be witnesses for God in our lifestyles and testify for God’s work
in our lives. Back in church, the
befrienders will be our frontline to engage new friends and our CG to build
bonds with them until they become a part of our congregation. Though the befrienders may be performed by a
group of members, it is our collective responsibility to take care of new
friends. Out in the mission fields, we
want to continue our support and encourage our missionaries in the various
countries to expand God’s kingdom.
To measure all these, we need to be plentiful in bearing
spiritual fruits. So let us work
together to bear more fruits for Christ; for very soon, one day, Jesus may
appear next to our trees and is looking for our fruits.