pastor Gerald Khoo
October 20th, 2006
I was with Gerald in Bukit Timah EFC for a short while. Then he visited us and I met up with him when our church was experiencing revival and he was with the Tabernacle. Next it was in Trinity Theological College where we met and talked about his thesis on the tabernacle. While my family were in ICU he and pastor Bennett prayed for my wife and twins. He also spoke at our church prayer meeting.
Gerald was an Anglican priest who was very talented, intelligent and very focused. He had a heart for the Thai people and wanted to reach and disciple them. He was forthright and straigtforward, no beating around the bush, tell it like it is kind of guy. I respected him. And God used him wonderfully in Bangkok to establish an Anglican church in the heart of the city. I remember he had a son Joshua whom we once saw carrying a big Bible around as a little boy, and I heard when he grew up, he went to Bible school.
However, the Lord took Gerald home quite suddenly about two years ago, and I was shocked when I heard it, and felt a gaping hole has been left in the Thailand church, as he was gathering and uniting the churches in Bangkok to reach the Thais for Christ. That was a sad day as he was doing very well and was even appointed an archdeacon there. But the Lord is too wise to make a mistake and too good to intend evil. We do not understand why, but we just have to trust Him and His ways.
And we can celebrate a man of God who lived well and made an impact of eternal significance.
Recently, I have been thinking, of a way for full-time Christian workers who have gone home to Lord, like Gerald and my pastor Johney, to have some kind of memorial in cyberspace, so that though dead, their life can still inspire others, a kind of on-going Hebrews 11 on the internet, where loved ones can add in their heroes of faith, and people who know them can add their comments.
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