B L O G P A S T O R

Benny Ong

April 16th, 2007

Had lunch at a Japanese restaurant with friend Paul Chan (left) and with Benny Ong(center), owner of a financial brokerage firm, an evangelist through and through. If Benny Ong bleeds, every drop of blood will cry, “Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.” Well I don’t believe an evangelist has to be Billy Graham or Benny Hinn or in “full-time Christian work.” Benny is a full-time evangelist because the one passion that drives his life is the seeking and saving of the lost. He has led scores of people to the kingdom of God, and though past 60 he is still at it. This time I heard how he and his wife Anne, on relocating to a new apartment opposite Parkway Parade, actually made special efforts to reach out to the grassroots HDB people, reaching out to them by buying and sharing breakfast and inviting them to church meetings. This may seem normal to you until you realize there is a big status and income gap between him and the HDB folks. Church members, he said with passion, need to come out of their status-based cliques, and reach out to people below their social strata. Benny is an engaging preacher and he has spoken in our church Sunday services on many occasions and preached in a memorable church camp in Kuala Lumpur. I like it when he infects our congregation with an enthusiasm for witness in the marketplace.

Another thing I noted: he excercises five days a week, brisk walking and stair-climbing, and he loves looking around for good local food, a kind of once a week indulgence. Well evangelists have to eat too!

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