50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

Life
Bible-Presbyterian
Church
The MsF Committee
2000/2001, together with
past Session advisers of
the MsF
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Missionary
Fellowship
IN DECEMBER 1989, a proposal was
put forward by all the nine Fellowships
to form a Missionary Fellowship
to promote mission awareness among
Lifers. Six months later on 2 June 1990,
the Missionary Fellowship (MsF) was inaugurated.
The MsF’s motto, “Together
into Missions”, reflects our objectives,
which are to:
(1) promote mission awareness in the
church,
(2) pray for missionaries of the Church
and related foreign missions,
(3) challenge Lifers to missionary
service,
(4) co-labour with the Church in missionary
work,
(5) initiate and coordinate short-term
mission trips with specific objectives,
and
(6) carry out decisions of the Church
session with regard to missions.
The Antioch church – whose disciples
were first called Christians and which
sent forth the world’s first Christian missionaries
- becomes the model for our vision.
The strategy is for Lifers and likeminded
Christians to serve together. Not
only are personnel found within the Life
B-P Church but also the Far Eastern Bible
College (FEBC). Rev. Dr Timothy Tow,
senior pastor of Life B-P Church and principal
of FEBC, has been our ex-officio and
adviser the past ten years.
Some of those who have served
in past MsF committees included
Rev. Dr Patrick Tan (pastor of New
Life B-P Church), Preacher Colin
Wong and Missioner Charles Seet
(assistant pastors of Life B-P
Church), Mrs Nirand Tamee nee Jess
Lim (missionary to Thailand), Deacon
Jack Sin (pastor of Maranatha B-
P Church), Pauline Lee (church staff
worker), Ho Heng Sau (missionary
to Saipan), and Deacon Henry Tan,
Mark Chen and Quek Keng Khwang
(current FEBC students). Other men
and women included session advisers,
Elders Edmund Tay, George Tan and
Eric Mahadevan, as well as representatives
from the nine Fellowship groups.
Over the years, as God has blessed
Singapore, giving to missions by Lifers has
increased steadily. Mission-minded believers
also come together to watch, pray and
participate. They are prepared to stand in
the gap as in the days of Nehemiah, each
ensuring that the task ahead progresses with
haste. As the Antioch of South East Asia,
Life B-P Church in Singapore is likened
to a mission hub for ASEAN. The Missionary
Fellowship is grateful to individuals
and groups who have come forward to
meet the challenge of the mission stations.
The First Five Years
The main thrust of our activities included
the following.
(1) We established ties with mission stations
by sending mission teams to Indonesia,
North Thailand, West and East Malaysia,
the Philippines and Myanmar. Fellowship
groups were tasked to adopt some of