December 2012 ‘To know Christ To make Him known To help others do the same’ Looking Back Year End Reflections The Alumni ministry wrapped up the year with a time of reflection and celebrations during Thanksgiving. Traditionally celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, it is set aside to give thanks and acknowledge God's goodness and generosity in His rich provision for our daily needs and gracious providence in our lives. We did one for the Nav Alumni Ministry but on first Sat, 3 Nov at the Navigator office from 5-9PM. Celebrating with turkey specially prepared by a participant, 'moist' & flavorsome, pasta with rich ingredients, different kinds of salads, different cakes & desserts, we also partook of the stories of three men who shared of their journeys in reaching out to others. Hock Chuan, a retiring senior civil servant has for the past decades helped and groomed nurses from East Asia with the gospel and discipleship, having them become part of a new worship service in his own church. The secret of their effectiveness in reaching the unsaved is in his words - to just love them into the kingdom simply by serving these people and meeting their needs. Shige Mori, a Japanese married
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December 2012 ‘To know Christ To make Him known To help others do the same’
Looking Back Year End Reflections The Alumni ministry wrapped up the year with a time of reflection and celebrations during Thanksgiving. Traditionally celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, it is set aside to give thanks and acknowledge God's goodness and generosity in His rich provision for our daily needs and gracious providence in our lives. We did one for the Nav Alumni Ministry but on first Sat, 3 Nov at the Navigator office from 5-9PM. Celebrating with turkey specially prepared by a participant, 'moist' & flavorsome, pasta with rich ingredients, different kinds of salads, different cakes & desserts, we also partook of the stories of three men who shared of their journeys in reaching out to others. Hock Chuan, a retiring senior civil servant has for the past decades helped and groomed nurses from East Asia with the gospel and discipleship, having them become part of a new worship service in his own church.
The secret of their effectiveness in reaching the unsaved is in his words - to just love them into the kingdom simply by serving these people and meeting their needs. Shige Mori, a Japanese married
to a Singaporean, having raised two grown up children, shared of his journey from business success to life significance in reaching out to his fellow countrymen here in Singapore. Through the sufferings he experienced when he lost his business and his home, he was humbled, broken in spirit and became truly compassionate and sensitive to the needy and the lost around him.
Jit Meng found greater joy in helping an ex in-mate one on one than just attending to leadership matters in his church. Follow-up takes on new meaning when the person you are helping has less than primary school education but it is rewarding when his guy tells him ‘ I know you care for me’. One personal blessing at the meeting was to see our key man in the ministry Mok Chok Sun join us that same evening. There was excitement in the air when he and his wife Song Imm stepped into the room. When the doctor first
saw the brain tumor in Mok’s MRI, he exclaimed ‘ Jie Lat’ alluding to the extensive spread of cancer in his brain.
As a result for the last 3 months Mok went through chemotherapy for his lymphoma in the brain after suffering considerable memory loss. Many rallied round him and his wife and we prayed for a miracle. God heard our prayers. Now the tumor had disappeared. We continue to pray for the full recovery of his memory function. Three Churches on Alongsider, Mentoring, Disciplemaking Three different words but they carried with them the core value of one person investing time and energy into another person to know Christ and to grow in maturity. This year, I had the privilege of meeting up with our alumni in three churches and did workshops on the above. NP alumnus Chua Teck Chuan serves in Bartley Christian Church in the men’s ministry and have me introduce the concept of the Alongsider Ministry to encourage
the men in the ministry to do the same. After conducting a Sat workshop on Mentoring with Emmanuel EFC, alumnus John Chia with his Pastor wrote to me asking for help to launch a Mentoring program in their church in 2013. Likewise over at Bukit Panjang Gospel Chapel, SP alumnus Hock Thong got me to do a training with some of their key people on Disciplemaking and subsequently I was asked to be their church camp speaker in June. Their church leadership has now embarked with us on the IDC process ( Intentional Discipling Church) for the next 18-20 months with us. Our CDM team – Church Discipling Ministry will run both the Mentoring program and the IDC for both of these churches. Looking ahead 2013 By the end of this year, most of the AODO groups would have finished their refresher course. We are now switching gear and ready to put into practice the many lessons that we had re-learnt from this refresher course. We covet your prayers as we regroup and launch into a new phase of the Alumni ministry. You will hear more of this in the writeups in future NavNews.
From the new year 2013 onwards, updates of the Alumni ministry will be featured in our regular NavNews. If you want to receive a copy of the NavNews, kindly contact the Navigator office. As the year draws to a close, we thank the Lord for the many special opportunities to serve alongside you our alumni both at the personal level and in partnership with the respective churches that you are in.
Our desire is to see each of our alumni finish well in your faith journey with the Lord. Call on us if you want to know more of the ministry and how you can be a part of it or to team up with us on this venture. We are ready to meet up and help you in whatever way we can. Yap Kim Meng For the Alumni Ministry [email protected] Phone : 98415963
