We are glad to see that Dr Andy Lim has been busy with the healing ministry in Malaysia and abroad. Wherever he goes, his FGB jacket is a trademark. In addition, Dr Kuan Kim Hock and his team went to the Northern Region chapters to encourage our brothers there. More of these outings by our members to other regions will certainly bring about a bonding and encouragement to one another in winning more people to the Kingdom. Let's hope to see more of the cross regional outings and airlifts undertaken by members. The reports were written as an encouragement for many others to take a similar step of faith to fulfill the Great Commission.

Mission Trip To Hong Kong
By Dr Andy Lim
At the invitation of our FGBMF Hong Kong brothers, I left for Hong Kong on 13 September. It was a very tight one-week trip but I enjoyed every moment of it.

There, the Holy Spirit came upon me and anointed me to serve, and serve I did with power and authority. The Gospel was preached, healing flowed and captives were set free. There were many signs and wonders that transpired during the meetings. The Lord imparted truths from His Words and the people's hearts were warmed and convicted. About 30 people accepted Jesus Christ with hundreds more who came for prayers for the healing of their sicknesses, financial problems etc. There was a tremendous outpouring of the fruits and abundant joy of the Holy Spirit at all the meetings. The harvest field is indeed plentiful and prayer to the Lord of the Harvest to send more labourers is constantly a much sought after commodity. I have been invited to return next year in 2003 to minister.  Praise the Lord.

A Time of Ministry Laying Hands on the Sick

Mission Trip To The North
By Dr Kuan Kim Hock (Deputy Director, Southern Region)
The invitation from Pastor Lee of Wesley Methodist Church in Alor Setar, for me to be the guest speaker at the church's 40th Anniversary on Saturday 17th August 2002, was a much-desired stimulus that prompted me to contact the FGBMF chapters in the North to coordinate and organise other dinner meetings, so that I could take along with me a team from Malacca to minister up north for a week.

Over the last nine years a group of brothers-and-sisters-in-Christ from different churches in Malacca had been gathering together every Saturday morning at the top of St John's Hill to intercede for the state and the nation. So bringing a team of ten (representative of six different churches, and including three FGBMF members and one ex-FGBMF member who is now serving fulltime for the Lord) was just an overflow and expression of the weekly fellowship … God prepares His people ahead of time and sets them where He wants them to be, for His kingdom purposes ! Even as the team of ten ministered in the north, there were others who were interceding for them back in Malacca. This article is written as an encouragement for many others to take a similar step of faith to fulfill the Great Commission.

We learnt again first hand what Romans 8 : 28 meant "and we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose" when one of the members of the team suddenly had a numbness in his legs. This numbness came on after the FGBMF dinner in Penang on the first night but the brother did not share this medical condition with the group until the evening of the second day. We were actually about to start dinner at a seafood restaurant (that our host had brought us to) when the brother requested to be taken to a pharmacy to obtain some medication. Our host and another brother took this sick brother to look for a pharmacy. After they left, although the food spread before us was sumptuous, none of us was in the mood to eat (in fact one of the team members confessed that attempting to have dinner, whilst waiting for the group to return from the pharmacy, was a difficult task because he was choking with every mouthful of food that he took . Such was our empathising with one another : truly when one member of the body suffers, the rest suffer too ! The brother's condition deteriorated on the morning of the third day and by the time it approached mid-morning, when the team was in the midst of sight-seeing, a decision was made to try to locate a hospital where the brother could seek medical advice. Although no one in the team knew Penang well enough to locate one, after driving around for a couple of minutes we found ourselves outside a hospital where the brother, who was suffering from the numbness in his legs, actually knew a friend who was the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) there. Talk about God's provision and providence!

This unexpected meeting with the CEO friend who is also a Christian. not only resolved the medical problem but also blessed the team tremendously. Needless to say the numbness in the brother's leg miraculously resolved itself .

It was humbling to be able to work with the Kangar FGBMF Chapter, who in spite of a membership of only three, organised a dinner meeting of twenty four tables, many of whom were Chinese-speaking non-believers (in Malacca it has been increasingly more and more difficult to get the English speaking non-believers to come for dinner meetings). The worship team for this dinner meeting was from the Baptist Church and it is wonderful to see how the churches here work together in order to extend the kingdom of God. 

Then there was this special lunch treat by an elderly brother from the Wesley Church in Alor Setar. The food was great and his testimony about how he and his family came to the Lord was such an encouragement to us. The fact that he was fasting for the NECF Forty Day United Fast and Prayer while we were feasting, speaks of his commitment. We had thought that we were going to be used "to preach good tidings to the poor… to heal the broken hearted… to proclaim liberty to the captives … to open prison doors" … but little did we know that " he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed " was going to be our portion that week.