50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

FELLOWSHIPS & NBCs
The Men’s
Fellowship
“Except the Lord build the house, they
labour in vain that build it: except the
Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh
but in vain.” (Ps 127:1)
BY THE GRACE and mercy of the
Lord, the Men’s Fellowship (MF)
has reached its tenth year of existence.
All glory and praise be to the Lord
for giving the MF a part to play in the
Lord’s vineyard. We are grateful that He
has sustained and preserved
us all these years.
On the morning of the
Lord’s Day, 7 January
1990, a group of happy
Lifers, most of whom new
in the faith and eager to
have a taste of service for
the Lord, were ushered into
a memorable meeting. The
humble venue was the open
chapel next to the FEBC
Library. The MF was inaugurated.
Besides Preacher
J.P.David, others present
were brothers Francis Sng
Jin Seng, Chan Heng Leong, Henry Tan
Kiat Siong, Seow Kim Guan, John Hoe
Koo Cheng, Lee Foh Leong, Koh Hock
Heng and George Tan Kok Eng.
As the Lord burdened our hearts to
serve Him in the MF, He also spurred us
on with encouragement from His Word in
Philippians 2:4, which reads: “Look not
every man on his own things, but every
man also on the things of others.” This
verse was adopted as the MF’s motto. We
had a burning desire to put His Word into
practice.
The MF’s objectives are as follows:
• to serve God and His Church,
• to enable church members to know one
another,
• to use our spiritual gifts for His glory,
and
• to propagate the Word of God.
To pursue these objectives, the MF
has drawn up a programme of activities.
The most regular activity is Saturday visitation.
This is to visit a member’s home on
a Saturday evening for fellowship, exhortation
based on a reading of His Word, and
prayers.
This is how the Spirit of the Lord
works in us to do the Saturday visitation,
which is considered incomplete without the
leader sharing from His Word by way of
an exhortation or a testimony of His goodness.
Indeed, we used to tremble as visitation
leaders for we were not grounded in
the Word. Praise be to God for He never
failed to give us the grace to accomplish
each visitation for His glory. To help us,
Preacher J.P. David, the first MF’s Adviser,
directed that we study “The Cheque Book
of The Bank of Faith” by C.H. Spurgeon.
The visitation leader would choose a theme
and the related Bible portion from this book
and then model his exhortation after the
one given by Spurgeon. We thank God for
Preacher David who would painstakingly
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