Rev Francis Khoo

Born into a family of pastors, Rev Francis Khoo was a lawyer and a successful businessman but also a backslidden Christian. He walked away from God and was involved in fortune-telling, idolatry and the occult. With a personal encounter with God in 1991, his life was transformed. Filled with the Holy Spirit, Bro Francis began ministering the Word of God through the power of the Holy Spirit.

It was in May 1998, when he was given the Word that he was disobedient. As he sought the Lord, it was revealed to him that although he had been busy for God, busy in church leadership and church ministries for over the past 6 years, he had been disobedient. He had not responded to the Word that God had given him on the night of 11 March 1992. A Word God that had been confirmed by prophetic words spoken by more than 10 different men and women of God over his wife, Shirley, and himself. The Word released was to serve God in full-time ministry with the promise that “If you will be obedient and faithful, your voice will be heard on radio, your face will be seen on television, you will preach not to tens, but to hundreds, thousands, ten s of thousands, a hundred thousand even. If you will be faithful and obedient.”

A revelation and a deep conviction led him into a time of repentance and an intense seeking for God through times of prayer and fasting. Out of this birthed the Covenant Vision Ministry and saw the establishing of Covenant Vision Centre. As the desire to understand the fullness of the calling God intended for his life and the ministry intensified, God began to reveal to him a multifaceted role for his calling, in that he was to be:

1. A Preaching-Evangelist: to preach Christ crucified and the gospel of the kingdom, with the assurance of Mark 16:20 that God will work with him to confirm the preaching of the Word with signs following.

2. A Teaching-Evangelist: with the challenge in Ephesians 4:12 to equip the saints for the work of the ministry, through Word-based, Spirit-led and Faith-filled Christian teaching and training.

3. A Reviving-Evangelist: with the vision to bring the passion of lost souls to the Church of Jesus Christ, mindful of the need for spiritual growth to the saints that would establish individual renewal in order to sustain the revival that God wants to work through the Church in the final days of these end times.

4. A Prophetic-Evangelist: to mobilise prophetic proclamations, declarations, intercession and directions so as to establish the victory in the finished work of the crucified Christ in this world as a prophetic people from a position of victory.

5. A Mission-Evangelist: to extend the challenge in Acts 1:8, to be a witness for Jesus “…unto the uttermost parts of the earth.” To also establish bastions that will extend the inroads made and to support ongoing Christian work that would facilitate the work of the Kingdom of God.

It was then, in 1998, that Rev Francis made a commitment to serve God full-time. God proved faithful! Since then, Rev Francis and Sis Shirley have been ministering as a husband and wife team, emphasising the importance of building a godly and positive family environment as a foundation for God’s blessings. Thousands have been healed and transformed by the Holy Spirit even as they challenge them to believe, trust and have faith in our Lord Jesus.