Jul 2007

HAPPY MEN BANQUET MELBOURNE
By Dr. Wong Hong Meng

On Friday, Bro Mark Bennell, the President of the Waverley Chapter, Melbourne, had only 31 participants for the Malaysian style banquet to be held at the Chillipadi Restaurant in Melbourne. The organisers were a little concerned. However, on Monday night the place was packed to capacity with many non-believers. The Malaysian Happy Men team, with a few Australian brothers joining in, did their well-known singing and dancing presentation along the aisles and between the seats of the restaurant. The food was excellent but the highlight of the evening was the testimonies from four Malaysian brothers; Bros Lee Gee Koon, Tan Tek Seng, Joshua Ong and Wong Hong Meng. Bro Rod Winter, a member of the Australian FGBMFI Board and a regular participant at Malaysian FGBMF functions, declared that at least one new chapter would be formed in Melbourne, either a Mandarin or bi-lingual one. Praise the Lord for honouring the faith and blessing the fruit of one’s labour.

“Close formation dancing” Part of the Malaysian FGBMF team.

The banquet followed the Australian National Convention in Geelong which had ten brothers from Malaysia with three accompanying wives. On the very first night of the Convention the Malaysian team was asked to do their Happy Man Presentation. The participants were so caught up by it that by popular demand they had to do a repeat performance the following night. The whole congregation was able to follow their singing and dancing with the English words projected on the big screen.

The Malaysians were greatly blessed by the teaching of Bro Bill Subritzky, 81 years old and still on fire for the Lord. The evening session was by Bro Johnny Lee Clary, a former member of the KKK. A breakfast meeting was held with the Mayor of Geelong at the Geelong Football Club and another breakfast meeting at which an Australian football legend shared a very touching testimony on how the Lord saved him, restored his marriage and his family and set him on the road to minister to others. The Lord truly blessed all the members of the Malaysian team who went on this trip primarily to encourage and have fellowship with their Australian brothers.
 

Upon the invitation of the Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship (FGBMF), Pastor Lim Gee Tiong from Blessed Fellowship Church, Kuching, together with his entourage of 63 church members was in Peninsular Malaysia between 26th May and 3rd June 2007. The purpose of these evangelistic singing concerts is to reach out to the Chinese speaking non-believers with Pastor Lim’s testimonies and Chinese songs.

Many lives were touched by the Lord through the powerful testimonies and songs which were clearly brought across. The crowd was engrossed and when the altar calls were made, many non-believers responded by coming to the front to give their lives to Jesus. Pastor Lim led all of them through the sinner’s prayers and also prayed for them. The nine concerts were held at venues in Jinjang, Klang Glad Tidings, Klang Grace AOG, Cheras, Kepala Batas, Pangkor Island, Pantai Remis, Sitiawan and Ayer Tawar with a total attendance of about 13,800 and an estimated 974 people saved.

Through this event, we can see a lot of team work and sacrifices made by the brothers in the FGBMF chapters in terms of time and finance. Even though there were no collections of love offering in all the nine singing concerts, the Lord has provided more than sufficient resources to make the entire event a success. We are thankful to the Lord for using the FGBMF as a bridge to reach out to the lost souls to glorify the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ. All glory go to Him! Amen! Hallelujah!
 

The Central Region also organized a Chinese training session with Bro. Johnny Lee Clary, who now is an internationally acclaimed motivational speaker and evangelist at KL Tasik Selatan. The training session was translated into Chinese and it was well attended by all the Chinese chapter presidents, committee members and group coordinators.

NO MORE OCCULT MEANS! About five hundred people gathered at the Sg. Long Golf & Country Club, Chinese Restaurant on 21st April 2007 to praise and worship the living God. While tucking into a delectable meal they also had the opportunity to listen to the testimony of Bro. Anthony Wong, a former practitioner of ‘feng shui’.

Let’s praise the Lord.

He witnessed how he had been drawn into believing that all things that he desired could be gotten through occult means until the Lord intervened and delivered him from eternal damnation to eternal life in Jesus. His life has been transformed and today he lives to serve a loving, living God.

Later at the altar call, about 100 guests gave their lives to Jesus. The dinner was organized by the Cheras-Selatan FGBMF Chapter - a chapter yet to be officially chartered but the members were already so fervent for the Lord.
 

CHINA BMF LEADERS CONFERENCE
25-26 MAY 2007
A team of Malaysian FGBMF brothers: Bro. PK Ang (Sungai Petani), Bro. Philip Goh (Subang Jaya Chinese), Bro. Tee Piau Long (Seri Kembangan), Bro. David Chiang & Bro. Jackie Tan (Tasik Selatan), Bro. Tan Tek Seng and his wife, Sis. Tinkie (Taman Connaught) attended the 2nd China BMF Leadership Conference held at a resort hotel in Hangzhou from May 25-26.

There were more than 150 participants from nine major cities of China, Taiwan, Canada, USA and Malaysia. This was the 2nd national conference organised by FGBMFI HK and the speakers were Bro. Hugo Chan (HK) who shared on Charisma; Bro. Tan Tek Seng (Malaysia) on Commitment and Bro. Samuel Yuen (HK) on Character.

Hours before the commencement of the conference, it was told that Bro. Hugo Chan was at a very important meeting to iron out some problems.

The authorities had not given them the green light to host the conference. A few brothers got together to pray. After some hours Bro. Hugo Chan emerged from the room with a reversed decision. It was announced that a-two-half day session was possible. Praise the Lord! Prayers do work!

The group left Hangzhou for Shanghai on May 27. Bro. Tan Tek Seng was invited to share to about 50 business owners in a restaurant in Shanghai that evening. They had a wonderful time ministering and enjoying the fellowship with the Christian business people in China.