Missions Reporting

A CVC team first visited Bintan Island on 2-3 September. On the first day of that trip the team ministered to churches in Tanjong Pinang, a town in the south of the island. The team also ministered at a church, Gereja Kristian Khemah Daud (GKKD) in Tanjong Uban in the north-west of the island on Sunday. During this trip we linked up pastors from 19 churches in Tanjong Uban that were open to working with us. These churches are generally smaller churches, and it was agreed that CVC could be a blessing to them. Our focus on ministering in the power of the Holy Spirit, and that the teachings that we emphasise in our Spiritual Growth Seminars was very much needed in Bintan.

I am now sleeping again in my own bed and Praising God for His goodness. Left last Thursday, October 12th with a Ministry Team to do a Conference and a series of Evangelistic Rallies with the Gereja Bethel Indinesia Churches in Jakarta . The Covenant Vision Ministry Team consisted of Bro. Samuel & Sis. Rita Sim, Bro. Johnny & Sis. Liam Wee and their daughter, Sis. Regina , Bro. Eugene & Sis. Lana Lim, Bro. Simon & Sis. Susan Leung,as well as Sis. Jessica Lim and Sis. Jill Chay. We were also joined by one of our previous Ministry Partner, Pst. Bernard Chia, who is now a Missionary with World Outreach. 

I have been going regularly to Manado since 2004, and I have to date been there 16 times. Manado is in north Sulawesi , Indonesia and about 70% or more of the people there are Christian. However many of them are nominal and Christian by tradition only.

This is because the Minahasan people converted to Christianity in around the year 1830. However there has been a real move of God in reviving Christianity in Manado . The new charismatic churches in Jakarta have recently come and successfully planted new churches here that are thriving. However, God has been using us to revive the older traditional as well as the older Pentecostal churches, where the majority of the Christians are.

For the third time in three years, Bro Francis Khoo found himself leading a team of 14 people to Mauritius . The team consisted of Bro Francis himself, Sis Shirley, Pastor Henry, Bro Andrew, Bro Henson, Sis Trisha, Bro James, Sis Rachel, Sis Jill, Sis Susan, Bro Samuel, Sis Rita, Sis Vanessa as well as Pastor Martin from Malaysia . More than half of the team had been to Mauritius before but for the newbies (Susan, Samuel, Rita, Vanessa and Martin), this was an experience they were never going to forget.