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 />
Inauguration of<br />
Life B-P Church building on<br />
February 16, 1963<br />
(For a full-size picture, open<br />
the fold-out at the end of the<br />
magazine)<br />
Construction of Church building<br />
at 9 Gilstead Road, 1962<br />
We held our last service at Prinsep<br />
Street with mixed feelings on October 14,<br />
1962. We began worshipping at the FEBC<br />
Hall October 21, 1962 as the Church celebrated<br />
her 12 th anniversary.<br />
Our Church was inaugurated<br />
on February 16,<br />
1963 with Bishop D.A.<br />
Thompson of the International<br />
Council of Christian<br />
Churches officiating. The<br />
strength of our congregation<br />
was 2<strong>50</strong>. The time of<br />
worship was advanced to<br />
the morning at 10.00 a.m.<br />
with Sunday School at 8.45<br />
a.m.<br />
From 1963 to 1979,<br />
this was a long period of extending the<br />
Gospel on the home front as well as to<br />
Malaysia and Indonesia.<br />
Our next great development was the<br />
struggle to take Woodlands in September<br />
1979 and finish building New Life B-P<br />
Church in October 1983. We failed miserably<br />
in the first tender for Woodlands, but<br />
were given a second chance in 1980. This<br />
time we won against the<br />
Roman Catholic Church<br />
with a bid of $20. The land<br />
measuring 42,000 sq ft cost<br />
us $933,000 and the building<br />
$2 million with fixtures.<br />
Totalling $3 million, one<br />
tenth was paid by the New<br />
Life congregation which<br />
consisted of 60-70 Lifers<br />
transferred there. At this<br />
time Life Church congregation<br />
numbered 600.<br />
As the Lord blessed<br />
David greatly for his desire<br />
to build God a house, so He<br />
prospered Life Church for<br />
going to Woodlands by<br />
greatly increasing our congregation<br />
at Gilstead Road.<br />
The Church could not contain<br />
the crowd in one service,<br />
so a second service at<br />
8.00 a.m. was opened in<br />
1987. The original service<br />
was advanced to 10.30 a.m.<br />
But with increase in Sunday<br />
School and the starting of<br />
more Fellowships the<br />
Church must expand horizontally.<br />
At first we negotiated with Mr Reshti<br />
our Iranian neighbour of 6 Gilstead Road<br />
obliquely across the road. He agreed to sell<br />
his property of 23,000 sq ft at $110 per sq.<br />
New Life, 1983<br />
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