St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church

We will have a Special Service, Fundraising Concert and Prayer for Rev Peter Chin on Sunday evening 19 July, 2009 at St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, KL. It will start with a dinner at 6.00pm in the Fellowship Hall, follow by the special service, concert and prayer at 7.00 pm. It is scheduled to end at 8.45pm.

This is a combined effort of several GPM churches which includes St Andrew’s KL, Logos KL, Logos Puchong, CDPC, Beacon, Doulos, Taynton View, amongst others.

PROGRAM

6.00  Dinner

6.55  Prelude by CDPC Band
7.00  Welcome by Elder Steven Fung (St Andrew’s KL)
Opening Remark and Prayer by Rev Wong Fong Yang (CDPC)
7.05  CDPC Band

7.10  Remark by Rev Kong Chi Hai (Logos Puchong)
GPM Synod Moderator

7.15  LOGOS Choir/Taynton View

7.25  Rock Solid (St Andrew’s KL Youth Band)
7.35  Remark by Rev Caleb Soon (CDPC)
GPM ESP Vice-Moderator

7.40  Beacon/Doulos

7.50  SAN Ren Xin

8.00  Prayers for Rev Peter Chin, En Ren, Shawn & Chara by
Rev Keith Hooker (St Andrew’s KL), Rev Chua Hua Peng (Logos KL), Rev Johnson Chua (Beacon KL)

8.10  Collection for Rev Peter Chin
8.15  Word of Thanks & Prayer by En Ren, Shawn & Chara
8.20  GEPC Band

8.30  SAVE Team
8.40  Word of Thanks by Elder Steven Fung

Closing Remark and Prayer by Rev Wong Fong Yang
8.45  The End

Postlude by SAVE Team + the rest of the bands

Let your performance, to paraphrase Hudson Taylor, points toward the “illustrious Master” rather than “His humble servants”

Rev. Peter Chin, former GPM ESP Moderator, Senior Pastor and Founder of GEPC, has done so much for the Lord and His Church. Somebody described it as follows, “work is also in many chinese speaking young adults (his wife mentioned his strategy is wherever there is a Unitar mini campus, nearby, on the first floor of a shoplot – there would be a ministry – hence cells in Ipoh, Kampar, Kulai, Pontian, etc). Also assists in teaching within BM work in Muar, Johor, Pontian, Kluang, Senai, Skudai and Batu Pahat. The ministry also has co-planted 2 cells in (Baray, Koh Kong) Cambodia.”

Peter has suffered a massive stroke and undergone several operations. The fund raising is for his medical expenses which now stands at +RM100,000.00. Prayers are for his healing, family and the ministries that he has planted. The followings are the prayer requests for his family and that the ministries that he has started shall continue:

Pray for family Mrs Chin, Shawn (13), Chara (5) who would be adjusting as they relocate. They would be moving to Mrs Chin’s parents base, where her father is a elder and retired pastor with Klang Methodist this week or the next. Children would also be changing schools etc.

Rev Chin’s son – Shawn ,13, would be very keen to be involved even with the leg work. He is currently adjusting as the family would be moving to Klang.

They are praying that the work will continue, that the Lord would raise up people to lead various ministries planted. So far, leaders have been raised up and delegated for Ipoh and Kampar cells. 2 weeks ago, a week after the stroke, Pastor Diani took Rev Chins place to lead 1 team into Cambodia for the 2 cells, so the work is trying to continue as per normal as much as possible.

More details of his situation are on Gospel Esplosion Presbyterian Church’s website – http://gepckl.blogspot.com/ and Jacob Liaw’s Twitter – http://twitter.com/JacobLiaw

From what started as just a simple email on Sunday 31 May, 2009 about the possibility of a fund raising concert in respond to Andrew Siew’s email from Synod, Pastor Chua Hua Peng quickly gave us Logos KL’s support. Pastor Kong Chi Hai, GPM Synod Moderator, has also confirmed that he would be able to make it. Pastor Wong Fong Yang is helping us with the program. Pastor Richard Tok has also volunteered to help us out. The Logos Choir, Beacon Presbyterian Church, Doulos Presbyterian Church, San Ren Xin, SAVE (St Andrew’s band) and GEPC band (Peter Chin’s church) have all indicated their participations. St Andrew’s KL Youth band, Solid Rock will come back from Tapah for it. The Lord is gathering His people. We believe the Lord wouldn’t want it any other way. We’ve to do something. Even though it is a combined effort of several GPM churches who felt moved to do something for Peter, it is actually more than just for Peter – it could have been anyone of us, particularly for pastors like Peter who are in the “frontline”.