Living Spring 活泉-Vol8-2016

God’s
hand in
GMAD
By Sze Kai
GMAD was the preaching point set up by GMSJ in September
2010. That was also the same time when I lost my job.
I was feeling terribly down that day. I had just lost my job.
I called Pastor David Boey and shared about my miserable
situation with him. I still remembered that he asked me to
join him for coffee at IKEA, Mutiara Damansara. We chatted
over the RM1.00 cups of coffee. As usual, Pastor David
joyously told me that this was a good opportunity. On that
fateful meeting, he revealed to me that GMSJ wanted to set
up a preaching point in Ara Damansara. He told me that I
could help GMSJ since I am staying around Ara Damansara.
Subsequent months later, GMAD was officially launched by
CAC Chairman Reverend Boh during the first GMAD worship
service on 4th Jan 2011.
The first evangelist of GMAD was Pastor Caleb Chang. GMAD
was his first posting after graduating from the Seminary
Theology of Malaysia. He was very motivated and he would
try to do everything to bring people to Christ. He would join
the local badminton games to know the local community.
He would walk under the sun to distribute flyers to invite
people for Christmas party in GMAD. At that time, we only
had around 10 members in our congregation. Some of the
worshippers were from GMSJ. They were “assigned” to
GMAD to help out. We had Bro Daniel Ling, Sis Ah Ling &
her son Bro Benjamin Tan, Bro Ngo and Dr Adriel Soh & his
family. Our flyers had successfully attracted some people
from the local community to visit GMAD. Among them were
Sis Liew, Bro Cheah, Sis Abby, Sis Anne and Sis Cynthia
& her two very young children. Pastor Caleb was Chinese
educated but wanted to preach in English, so he patiently
practised his preaching under the coaching of our dear Sis
Liew almost every week. Meanwhile, we were not able to
start any Sunday school class as we only had two children,
i.e. my two sons.
In our second year, GMAD had a lady pastor. Her name is
Pastor Lydia Ng. GMAD was also her first pastoral posting
after her graduation from STM. She was very energetic and
fun loving. During her term, we set up the first GMAD home
fellowship in my house. It was held every Friday evening. Bro
Ngo from GMSJ was very supportive and he attended the
home fellowship every week for the first three months. The
frequent attendees of the home fellowship were Bro Cheah,
Sis Sophia and her mum, plus my family and our maid.
In our third year, Pastor Raymond Choy was posted to GMAD.
He was still studying in STM then. He was well-known as
a “people-person”. Both the old and young in the church
liked him. During his pastoral period, many more newcomers
came to GMAD, including Sis Vivienne Yoong, Bro Ming Hun
& his wife Sis Swee Yen and Sis Elaine Wan. In order to
help in directing people to GMAD, we put up road signs
around Ara Damansara area. We were happy that the road
signs worked as many people came to GMAD after that.
During that period of time, we had around 30 worshippers
on Sunday worship. In the same year, we also started The
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