50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

Dining and accommodation at Telok Paku
ble camp of 1960, which was held at Bedok
Boys’ School, the number of campers grew
to 120. At the consecration night, the camp
master, Joshua Lim, reported that “22
young people dedicated their lives unto
God for the first time and 11 made a rededication”.
In the 1960’s, Lifers scaled new
heights in search of campsites. In 1965 the
Church was planning to hold a Family Bible
Camp on Cameron Highlands during
the Easter holidays. The theme was “With
Christ On the Mount”. The speakers were
our Pastor and Rev. John Grauley, missionary
from IBPFM. Deacon Joshua Lim was
the camp master. There were 50 campers.
As the convoy of cars was heading towards
the foothill town of Bidor, an accident took
place. Pastor recalled, “By a whirlwind, in
a lightning flash … Mrs Tow Keng Chuan,
Mrs Nancy Tow and Le Anne were taken
… Paul Tsao at the wheel suffered internal
injury … Lily had a broken thigh and head
injury.”
In a testimony to his students at the
FEBC, Pastor noted that the message of
the Highlands camp of 1965 was “not spoken
by the living but by the
dead. Hearts were melted,
washed by tears of sorrow,
mingled with love and repentance
… the Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken
away; blessed be the name
of the Lord … though He
slay me, yet will I trust in
Him”. During the combined
funeral service on 22
April 1965, the mountain
theme song, “Is Not This
The Land of Beulah”, was
sung by the fifty campers
to “the sympathizing tears
of the thousand mourners”.
One young soul received
Christ up the mountain on
the night of the accident.
Back in Singapore, another
soul who was spending a
night at Deacon Joshua
Lim’s home was called to
serve the Lord full-time.
Many more lives were
changed and consecrated to the Lord. Mr
& Mrs Charles Tsao, parents of the driver
of the fateful car, gave themselves to the
Life Church Chinese Service, which was
founded after the accident.
The period from 1970 to 1999 saw
the Session seeking for
better resorts and campsites
in West Malaysia
and Indonesia. Some of
the campsites included
Port Dickson (Golden
Sand Beach),
Mersing’s Rest House,
Shah’s Resort, Fraser’s
Hill, Awana Genting
Highlands, Genting Resorts,
Kuantan, Rivera,
Waterfront Resort, etc.
In the 1990’s, Calvary and Life B-P
Churches had several combined camps.
These combined efforts brought about
mutual help and fellowship among likeminded
B-P churches. Each year, the organizing
committee, headed by a Session
member, put in much time and effort into
Rev. Dan Ebert III
speaking at Shah’s Beach
Resort, Malacca, 1988
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