50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College
50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College
50 Years Building His Kingdom - Far Eastern Bible College
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Life<br />
<strong>Bible</strong>-Presbyterian<br />
Church<br />
Tanjung<br />
Uban<br />
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to FEBC and was soundly<br />
converted by studying<br />
Calvin’s Institutes. He returned<br />
home to spread the<br />
good news. This brought<br />
salvation to his father, an<br />
elder of the old Batak Batu Aji<br />
Church. He left his old<br />
church to become a <strong>Bible</strong>-<br />
Presbyterian. Eventually,<br />
for the shepherding of a B-<br />
P congregation in Medan,<br />
he was ordained. He was an<br />
ex-Government servant and<br />
very proficient in English.<br />
Blessings came upon<br />
two younger sons, Haposan and Agus, who<br />
were converted while attending Gospel<br />
rallies in Medan. These two also joined<br />
FEBC. After graduation they returned to<br />
bolster an infant B-P Church.<br />
SINGAPORE<br />
Galilee took over this ministry by<br />
buying a property which provided a house<br />
for the church services and rooms to run a<br />
school.<br />
When Haposan took over the church<br />
and school, there was a need for expansion.<br />
So Life Church bought the next door<br />
land for S$43,000 on which he has extended<br />
several classrooms. This has raised<br />
the enrolment to <strong>50</strong>0.<br />
Some years later, FEBC bought him<br />
another property, less than 100 yards from<br />
the established school, and there he added<br />
more classrooms. With earnings from these<br />
two schools, he became self-supporting.<br />
BATAM<br />
Tg Piayu<br />
Tg Uban<br />
BINTAN<br />
Tg Pinang<br />
Now he is able to run a <strong>Bible</strong> School on<br />
the strength of income from the two<br />
schools.<br />
In the course of these developments,<br />
Galilee Church decided to support Agus,<br />
the younger brother. Galilee Church bought<br />
a property at Belawan<br />
for Agus to develop a<br />
church. Up in the mountains<br />
at Kota Baru<br />
where Life Church had<br />
built a simple chapel,<br />
Agus succeeded to supervise<br />
it with Sister<br />
Mariana, another FEBC<br />
graduate, manning the<br />
station.<br />
Life Church’s<br />
third outreach to Indonesia<br />
is Tanjung Pinang<br />
in the Riau Islands. This began in 1973.<br />
The Pastor of Life Church went to help, at<br />
the retirement of Rev. Tan Peng Koon, as<br />
Moderator. We also helped them financially.<br />
Pastor Tow visited this Zion Presbyterian<br />
Church until the early nineties<br />
when he gave over the supervision to Revs.<br />
Bob Phee and Koa Keng Woo. We ordained<br />
preacher Joseph Liu so that the Church<br />
would have its own full-fledged shepherd.<br />
With Joseph Liu’s son, a graduate of an<br />
Indonesian Seminary, coming for further<br />
training at FEBC, the future of Tanjung<br />
Pinang is bright. They are self-supporting<br />
not only from us financially, but spiritually.
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