A God Blessed Week End 30/5/2010

I had a good day at Burmah Road Gospel Hall Chinese Assemnly,taking two meetings for the week end. When I returned to Nibong Tebal I had to get ready for the Vietnamese Wedding Service in NTGH English Hall.

A number of us represented the groom's side to bless the day. A few others represented the bride side to bless the day. It was such a memorial day---first Vietnamese Wedding in church.

I was asked to say the opneing prayer.

May God bless the couple.

Morib Trip Follow up

It was a great camp,well organised and active participation from members and church leaders.

Group discussion brought forth much benefit to the members. Even the younger ones are well occupied. They did a good handy work too.

Personally I believe a well plan One-day Camp can bring about the spiritual benefit to church members as much as a three-day camp. In fact, the busy schedule of church members would not allow time for a longer camp. Such a One-Day Camp is a alternative for them. I am sure church leaders can give a consideration to such posibility and to benefit church unity and church growth.

Morib One-Day Camp

I will be driving to Morib Impian Hotel to take up a camp organised by Janjarom Gospel Hall. It is held on 28/5 Wesak public holiday. I am expected to reach before 9am and the camp dismiss at 5pm. I hope to drive from 3am to reach at 8am. Pray for my safety on the road.

Knowing that I can never make it back to Nibong Tebal after break camp, I decided to put a night there and start my return journey well before lunch on 29/5. In fact Klang Gospel Hall would like to have me at their morning service on 30/5 but I have to speak at Penang Burmah Road Chinese Assembly on 30/5.

I will be taking a 3-day camp from 9-11/June organised by BRGH Chinese Assembly. Do uphold me in prayer. Thanks.

Kiwi

Thanks for your concern

Praise the Lord! A number of my supporters have been asking where is Kiwi? No news from him. Others are wondering what happened to Kiwi. Lately I have also received a card and a fellowship gift from Singapore Sewing Circle.

Once again many thanks for remembering me before God.

I am fine. However, having well past my 60th.birthday, it is time to slow down. More so after 33 years of fulltime ministry. It is time to get ready for my "old age".

Fruther more, my work is now in good hands....leaders are handling church administration, not me. Surely it is time to fall back to my "calling'....preaching ministry. Thus I am moving around with invitations to speak at various assemblies.

You may have heard that Kiwi has gone back to secular job. Not true.Kiwi has taken up tent making ministry. Some 10 years ago due to some misunderstanding, churches were led to believe that Kiwi has left the Assembly. All practical fellowship were cut. It was a tough time for me. It was a time that my children were growing up. Thus I had to fall back to do some small business to keep myself going.

Though badly hurt yet never give up. Thank God my children are all out of their universities,and had taken up jobs and actively involved themselves in church ministry. During this hard time, I had to see my wife to medical treatment for her SLE illness. It was tough time with almost everybody leaving me. Thank God for NTGH which backs me up all this while.

Nevertheless, I had not slack in anyway in the ministry. Thank God for the strength and the encouragement. And it was because of this "rejection" from the Assemblies, that I had decided to stop my KiwiNewsletters.

Do pray with me as I continue to serve the Lord in this last lapse of my life.

Kiwi

Impian Gospel Centre/Butterworth Gospel Hall YP

It is not easy to keep young people at our Youth Fellowship. You must have something interesting to hold them,otherwise, they will drop off from meeting.

If your number is too small to hold a meeting, how about combine with a nearby church? If you have man power problem, how about share your resources?

Butterworth has its YP combined with Impian Gospel Centre. Youth leaders made an effort to fetch the young people to meeting. The Youth leader at Impian Gospel Centre also made an effort to bring in their own YPs. They shared their resources, with leaders from both churches coming together to lead the YP Fellowship.

The objective is to keep the youths and help them to grow up in the knowledge of God. Sharing with them the gospel and winning them to Christ. What makes you so reluctant to combine your small youth congregation with that of a neighbouring church?

Thank God I was invited to speak to this group on 17/4 and I am glad to see so many of them. May God bless them.

A Trip To The South

I had my first trip to the south after serving fulltime for 33 years.

I was invited by Sedenak Gospel Hall to take two meetings on 10/4 and 11/4.

I thank God for the blessing of preaching His Word at this church. I am sure God has touched their lives. I also make an effort to visit Kulai Gospel Hall. Just wanted to know its whereabout. On the way back to Nibong Tebal, I made a special visit to Jasin Home for the Aged. I had the opportunity to encourage the sister who is serving fulltime at this Home.

In fact, it is common that people just forget those who serve fulltime among the Brethren. More so if you work among special ministry, not standing fore front in the church congregation. This jasin Home is a caring ministry initiated and operated by the Brethren churches.

Though the journey was tiring, driving from NT to Sedenak and returned the next day after the morning service, it was worth it. May God bless the churches in Sedenak, Kulai and Jasin.Amen.

Fusukang---Online Assembly Chinese Magazine

Hi my beloved supporters and prayer partners:

Just to inform you that the latest issue (No.9) of Fusukang is ready for reading online. You are welcome to visit www.fusukang.net if you read Chinese. This issue we discussed on the importance of Preaching Ministry, and how church leaders should plan their pulpit ministry well.

Elders are not just to fill up speakers every Sunday, but to plan and seek the Lord for wisdom to build up the congregation through preaching ministry, teaching ministry etc.

I hope to complet the second term in this Literature ministry. However, the Chinese Assemblies need to have new people ready to take over. Pray with us that God will raise up such team in years ahead.

My term expire on the next Elders Conference in 2011.

KHOR KEE OOi

Prayer Request

Dearly beloved,

God willing pastor Kiwi will be going to Sedenak Gospel Hall this coming 10th. & 11th.April. He will be speaking at their 40th.Annivesary Thanksgiving Service and also teaching at their Sunday worship service.

This is the first time in 33 years of fulltime ministry that our brother is travelling down to Johor. Pray for his journey mercy and also seek the Lord's anointing as he prepares for the services.
Thanks

Kiwi

Happy Birthday to Hai Yen

Happy birthday to Hai Yen.

Simple,though, thank God for strength and good health.

She had a treat to xiu long pao in Penang.

God bless her in the years ahead.

Masking

Masking means pretending to be what you are not. You are not a kind person, but for the sake of a certain political objective you tried to be nice and helpful. You are not caring but because you are a leader in a community, when certain event too place you tried to be caring and concern, paying visits to homes and orphanages.

Bible has a term for it: hypocrites.

Christians are suppose to be sincere and truthful in all they say and do. However, many are learning to have masking too. Being a pretender, he can be sensitive to people's comment and talks. Feeling insecure, he can go all out to slander and to destroy his opponents.

Christian must not have masking----- be true and sincere before the Lord.
What is slandering? Telling half truth with the intention to destroy the creditibility of a person. It is usually done out of jealousy and the spirit of vengence.

Are you real? Truthful? or Are you also a pretender?

Lost Generation

"There was no king (clear leadership)...and every man did whatever he thought was right."( Judges 21:25)

I think this verse is best to describe the condition is many churches, and in many individual live. A kind of "lost" feeling. How did the church of the Almighty come this state of situation? How can a believer drop to that low spirit?

If I may say, I would rather say we are not obedience to the teaching of the Word. We are not humble enough to follow God's way. We wanted our own way.

Imagine I was taking a meeting in a place some one hour driving distance away from my home. As the meeting come to a close, I heard the Lord saying, do not take their fellowship gift. Give towards their church fund. I need to sponsor my travelling expenses and food, however, I obeyed.

I was preaching in a meeting and I had the prompting from the Lord to declared that the leadership was not willing to listen to God but wanting smooth talk from man. So The Lord declared that I will not preach in that Sunday service anymore. Woh! That was serious. But after much struggling I obeyed. From then on I have not accepted any invitation from them.

My surprise is that instead of humbly checking before the Lord, man resort to "killing the prophet".

How "lost" can we be if we refuse to abide to the rule of the Lord. So is this lost generation. Return to the Word, and submit to the Lord. Life will spring up again with joy and much blessing.

Moving Into 2010

Set to do great things for the Lord. Have clear visions and move on to fulfill the visions.....reachout to the lost to win them for Christ.

Be more caring as a leader, not as taskmasters of Egypt, but as shepherds to the people entrusted into your care.













The church is full of hungry souls, longing for the Word of life. Be ready to feed them.

Be practical and be an example to the congregation. Teach with your life and not just with your words
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Do more reading, equipping for ministry. Never take things for granted thinking that Church leaders' job is just to fill up the speakers list for each calander month.

NTGH English Christmas 2009

We had the simplest Christmas service this year. Simple in our dinner reception.We have it in the church itself. We have singspiration and a gospel message.

Pray that God will touch the lives of those who come seeking to know the Lord.

Missions Workers Needed

Talking about missions? Have a desire to send out missionaries overseas? How about meeting some local needs!

Thousands have been spent to send missionaries abroad.Some even alocated some fund and send to some foreign missions ventures. How about caring for the need back in our home yards?

Kuala Kangsar Gospel Hall needs a team of missionaries to volunteer coming over to help them. Sister Ai Ling is doing all she can to help getting people interested in the gospel. Mr.Lee the father is doing what he can to preach and teach the Word in this small congregation. Mr.Tan is also helping up in managing the church affairs. Others are trying to work among the children.

Why start new work overseas and neglect the work locally?

Why spend hundreds over a meal when you can easily finance some works and meet some needs in a small church.

Pray that God will speak to some and touch lives to come forward to help in KKGH.

See Who is back

Jenny Saw Kim Hong is back for a short visit to have a reunion with family members and friends. She had joined the missions ----YWAM New Zealand some few years back. She had completed a number of training courses and is also actively participating in ministry in New Zealand.

Wit the help of Lye Imm and Richard, she joined NTGH at our Hospital carolling. We had a good fellowship at the dinner in our elder Fong's house.

In the picture we have our elder fong and sister Kooi Lee, Sister Su Yin and Richard and Lye yin. Seated is Kee Ooi & Hai yen.

Praise God for blessing Jenny's ministry.

Hospital Carolling 2009

Thank God for another year of visit to the hospitals during Christmas season. It has been the culture of NTGH to share this Christmas joy with hospital inmates and hospital staff over the past 40 years!

We have the opportunity of giving away some fruit package to the inmates. We have also the opportunity to explain our faith the our friends. We shared with them "Kurnia Tuhan pada manusia" (Gift of God to mankind),"Harapan dalam hidup"(Hope in life), and also reminded a couple about children are the gift of God to the parents etc.

We ended up with a dinner at our Elder Fong's house. A time of fellowship and singing. Praise the Lord.

Visit to Seremban Gospel Hall

What is so special about the trip?

It is Kiwi's first trip to Seremban Gospel Hall in his 33 years of fulltime ministry.

It is a trip to take a series of three services: Christmas Special ,Sunday Morning ministry and a CF meeting on Sunday afternoon.

The Christmas Special was presided by four teen members and the various tiems revealed to us that Seremban Gospel Hall has the potential to win the young ones to the Lord.

Let us uphold the fulltime worker: Pastor Pang Xing Qiang and his team of leadership in prayer.

Visit to Jireh Home 2009

Every year NTGH would pay a visit to the Home and cooked and share with them a meal. At the same tome we would give a gift to support their fund and have a fellowship gift with the pastor.

We made the trip on 13th.December 2009.

We prepared the dinner for the inmates, and also served them. We had a also a simple Christmas message and singing, sharing with the inmates the Christmas joy.

The pastor shaed with us that they need some RM70,000/= to pay up the bank loand for the building. (A shoplot.)

Pray and support them,asking God to raise up supporters for Jireh Home.

Share Your hearts Out

Speak up or you will not have a chance to improve our churches. Do you love your church? Must Brethren Churches in Malaysia stay weak and ineffective?

1.Are you happy with what it is at this present moment?
2.Do you have any personal experiences and wanted to share as how the church can be improved!
3.What is your suggestion as how we can improve our churches? What changes must take place ?
4.If things go on as it is what can you expect of the Brethren churches?

Be caring, loving, and truthfully, give your constructive comments..... while it is still time to improve our churches.

Plan for 2010

Hi,
Time to plan for 2010.
You cannot leave it to the last moment of 2009 otherwise your 2010 will not be a fulfilling year. You will know what you want as you sit down to plan ahead.

I have almost got my itinenary planned out for 2010.
This coming January is my 60th. birthday. It is my 33rd anniversay of fulltime ministry.

Though I am on my semi-retiring schedule (because no more doing pastoral ministry), I returned to my itinenary preaching ministry.

However, I am giving most of my time to the Chinese Assemblies, that is where the need is.
Nevertheless, I hope to pay visits to Melaka, Klang Valley, Johor Sedenak etc. ( Places I miss out in my fulltime ministry.)

Do continue to uphold me in prayer, asking God for an effective and powerful ministry.

KHOR KEE OOi