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I am Kenny Chee, and I lead the pastoral team of a mid-sized Pentecostal church. I am husband of Jenny, and father of Joshua, Matthew and Elaine and my interests include blogging, trekking, tennis, Arsenal, and politics.
My parents, Andrew Chee and Ada Law, married in St Andrew’s Cathedral but were not 
churchgoers. However they allowed all their children to attend Sunday school at Bukit Timah Evangelical Free Church. My father was agnostic and my mum believed in God as I remember accompanying her to the popular Novena Roman Catholic church. Later though she regularly attended and was active at St Andrew’s Cathedral(Anglican) but now she suffers from dementia.
I have four siblings: brothers Colin, Julian, Victor, Beryl(formerly, Joyce) and I am fourth in birth order. I imagine that when I was born, my parents must have said, “Huh? another boy?”, and when my sister was born: “Hmm…..at last.” How my mother managed this brood I do not know, but managed well she did, bless her heart.
Several institutions moulded me. I studied in Swiss Cottage from Sec1 to PreU2; and then it was two and a half years of National Service; cadet teaching in National Institute of Education; and then Tung Ling Bible School and Trinity Theological College. Believe me, I was glad when my formal education ended. Gelat.
I was born again and raised in a revival that spread among students of YFC in the 1970’s. It started with Dunearn Tech students but like wild fire soon students from as far as Tanjong Katong were swept into the Spirit’s embrace. It was an intense, intimate, torrid spiritual whirlwind that I experienced and I ended up being apprehended as His love-slave. (I have since met many who are now Christian leaders who were also forged in revival fire of the 70’s.)
I married Jenny Poh in 1980. I first met her in the church home cell. What attracted me to her was a combination of her personality and the ease with which I could talk to her. These and much prayer and consultation led to a proposal, courtship and
marriage. (Yes, that was the order of things). We got along very well and while my dear system analyst wife brought the bacon home, I was occupied with theological studies and church work.
Those years passed rapidly and rather eventfully too, for my wife was pregnant with twins in the third year of my studies. However what was meant to be a joyous occasion turned to one of sorrow as my wife contracted an unidentifiable hepatitis late in her pregnancy. She was warded immediately into the Singapore General Hospital which at that time had no delivery facilities. So my wife delivered the twins in the ward(the first ever in SGH), and they were born blue, Joshua and Caleb, and by the time the incubators came, over five vital minutes had passed. So all three: my wife, and my newborn twins, were in intensive care units, wires and tubes and all, their life under threat, or the preferred understatement of 
the doctors, “very ill”! It was a highly stressful three weeks of living day by day, on the sixth day receiving news of Caleb’s death and having to bury him without my wife’s knowledge.
The church prayed and stood by us throughout the crisis and I am so grateful. The liver specialist said to my wife who could have died, “I am not a Christian, but it is your God”. Joshua survived, and nurses from church later told us the doctors told them it was better for both twins to go as their brains had been severely damaged from oxygen deprivation. Indeed Joshua had to be on phenobarbs for years due to fits; and regular check-ups, with the head of pediatrics, preparing us often, that our son would have to go to a special school. In the
end, we sort of stopped going, as we could see with our own eyes and hear with our own ears that Joshua could go to a normal school. Today he is in the university studying history, and was even on the dean’s list, and has graduated with second upper honours. Glory to God.
My second son Matthew was born in 1987, after a gap of five years as Joshua required
quite a bit of care. Elaine was born in1989 and then we closed the “factory”. God has been gracious as we are blessed with three children, now growing up too fast. When they were younger we were like, “When will they grow up?”. Now its like, “Why have they grown up so quickly?”
