Today I left home at about 9am and reached Rembrandt Hotel in Bangkok at about 4.30pm. This was a whole day given to travelling by car, plane and train, and quite a bit of walking with luggage in tow. We were here to do some building work among the poor for Ruth Center in Bangkok. […]
Simeon Poh was a young man of 27, with a girlfriend, and a career in precision instruments with Timex. He was Spirit-filled and zealous for his Lord. On the way home from a mission trip to Simpang Rengam, Johor, where WRPF planted its first church, the car that Simeon Poh was in, crashed with a […]
I saw his obituary twice over the weekend. I have met and chatted with Kenny Gan a few times but a few of my colleagues in church knew him personally. They served with him in Operation Mobilisation (OM). Kenny is a trophy of God’s amazing grace. He was born into a Buddhist/Taoist family. His dad […]
We had a farewell lunch with Ron and Margery Perschsky at one of JCube’s Japanese restaurants. Ron Perschsky had retired from his regional position at WEC, a missionary organization. Our church had a long standing relationship with Ron, first as a guest speaker in our church services and church camps, and later as a church […]
Evangelist T.L. Osborn was one of my Pentecostal heroes in the early years of my Christian life. We young leaders in the church also looked up to him as someone we wanted to emulate for reasons right or wrong. We read his books and gave out tracts written by him on Saturdays as we walked […]
They said There was a spillover crowd of about sixty outside in the open air on a cool and damp Thursday night. At the front entrance, projected on the screen, was a portrait of Joanne Karen Chan. She was looking out pensively from inside a bus. We could hear the songs and what was going […]