50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College

Kelapa Sawit B-P
Church
AS YOUR FIRST daughter, Kelapa
Sawit, together with her offshoots
- Air Bemban and Bukit Batu B-P
Church - extends our heartfelt congratulations
to our Mother Church on her 50 th anniversary.
We praise God for the great
things He has done for you all these years.
Since January 1952 when Dr
Andrew Gih relinquished Kelapa
Sawit mission to the joint support
of the Evangelistic League (late
Leona Wu) and Life B-P Church
(Rev. Tow), Kelapa Sawit has
been blessed with much guidance
and financial support. To God be
the glory.
From a humble beginning of
10, its congregation has increased
to 100. Many have been baptised
and are now in other parts of Malaysia
and Singapore. Preacher Ng Sang
Chiew has been serving in Kelapa Sawit,
Air Bemban and Bukit Batu since 1982.
Mrs John Ling, lady preacher and cofounder
of Air Bemban and Bukit Batu,
also pioneered the work.
Special mention must be made of our
late beloved Rev. John Ling, advisory pastor
of Kelapa Sawit B-P Church. After the
first Mrs Ling passed away in 1985, he
enrolled for theological training at the Far
Eastern Bible College. After his ordination,
Rev. Ling served in Kelapa Sawit for a season
before moving up to Kemaman,
Trengganu in 1992. He started the English
Service there in July 1994 with Life B-P
Church’s help. In 1995, he acquired a handsome
property in Kuantan. Four years later,
Rev. and Mrs Ling resigned from
Kemaman Presbyterian Church to head this
new ministry in Kuantan. Owing to poor
health, Rev. Ling returned to Kelapa Sawit,
leaving the work to Rev. Kim Kah Teck.
In recent years, God has raised up Dr Wee
Tiong Soon to spearhead this work.
Rev. Ling had been serving faithfully
and quietly until being called home to glory
on 4 March 2000. But the work in Kelapa
Sawit, Air Bemban and Bukit Batu must
continue. Last year, Kelapa Sawit celebrated
its 47 th anniversary with Rev. Tow
as the speaker. The Church has grown from
strength to strength. The Sunday school
and the literature department have been
producing the church weekly to nurture the
members in the faith.
The church choir, through its music
ministry, has gone even as far as Kuala
Kangsa (Preacher Joshua Khoo’s Church)
to evangelise. In November 1999, it collaborated
with the choir of Kulai Besar B-
P Fellowship to hold an evangelistic musical
at Kelapa Sawit, Air Bemban, Bukit
Batu and Kulai Besar.
Since 1996, the Vocation Bible
School (VBS) has been propagating the
Gospel to kindergarten children of these
three churches. Organised by Life B-P
Church under Elder Sng and sister Ada,
their teams often comprised members from
Life Church fellowship groups. All this was
interspersed with revival meetings to meet
the spiritual needs of members. Prayer
meetings were also held in members’
homes in Malaysia and those living in Singapore.
Special mention must be made of
Rev. Colin Wong, Joshua Chua and Calvin
Loh of the Evangelistic Band. They have
been helping our three outreaches periodically.
Air Bemban
In 1976, the late Mrs John Ling and
another co-worker conducted Sunday
School in the Air Bemban Primary School
to reach out to this new village. Through
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