Missions Convention 2010

This year's Mission Convention was a powerful and impactful one.

The theme was REACHING OUT WITH GREATER IMPACT.

Our speaker is Pastor Christine Phang who together with her husband Pastor Tony Phang went to Kenya as missionaries in 1992 when they were 28 years old. The Lord used them in a tremendous way to raise workers for churches through the Bible School that they started there in 1992. The Lord also use them to start an orphanage that began with 7 street children and now has 800 children. Then in 2000 they started a church with 20 members. Today the church has some 400 members. in 2009, after more than 16 years in Kenya, the Lord called them back to Klang, to lead the Glad Tidings church.

Amongst many wonderful stories and teachings shared I would like to share the following:-

1. God wants us to step out in faith. When we do that the signs and wonders will follow. If we don't step out the signs and wonders will be locked up. We don't need to pray for the signs and wonders. We just follow God and obey Him and the signs and wonders will follow us.


2. Obeying God is never a sacrifice. It is alwasy a blessing, a great blessing. On the other hand disobedience is costly. Disobedience will cost you all of God's richest blessings. Ps Christine shared how their obedience to God to go to Kenya brought great blessings. There was the blessings of children. They went there with no children and the Lord blessed them with 2 beautiful and godly girls. She discovered that she was not able to have children but through the love, support and prayers of the saints God blessed her with 2 miracle daughters, Kathryn and Vicky. Some friends shared their concern that they must sacrificed much for their children's future. But Ps Christine shared that their daughters received the best education in a Missionary school there. Their teachers are from US and gave them the best. Today they are mature, wise, loving and bold. Most of all they have an intimate relationship with the Lord. To add to that I see that God has really blessed Ps Christine and her husband with a great church of more than 1000 members in Klang as their senior pastor. Surely they experienced Matt 6:33 in their lives. Surely there are great rewards in heaven as well. Only eternity will tell the impact they made in obeying God to go to Kenya and served there.


3. We were greatly stirred by the compassion of Jesus flowing through Ps Christine in the way she gave her heart and all for the children in the orphanage. The Lord spoke to Ps Christine that she is to treat the children in the orphanage as her own children, and to do all that she would do for them as she would do for her own children.


4. They experienced miracles after miracles of divine providence, protection, power and great fruitfulness.


5. In their last assignment, God opened a door for Ps Tony to teach in a Christian university and that opened the door to minister to Pastors from all over Africa who came to study.

Many were challenged to rise up for Jesus and fulfill HIS GREAT COMMISSION!