Twenty-seven youth volunteers from The Zone, our church’s Youth Ministry, visited Cho-Lae School, Chiang Mai, Thailand, from 19 to 24 May 2013. The youths are part of GenRev, a youth group at The Zone which caters to single working adults, aged between 17 and 29. During their six-day stay, our volunteers shared the gospel through songs, Bible stories and skits with 173 children from Kindergarten One to Secondary Three.

Rainbow, by Hillsong Kids, was one of the many songs that our volunteers taught the children at Cho-Lae School. This particular piece that spoke of God’s unfailing promises was a top hit among the Upper Primary kids!

“When we sang with the kids in Thai, they kept requesting for an encore. Each time we sang, it got louder and louder like the walls were tumbling down. They just love to sing and declare that God’s promises are true! Knowing that they have been touched by God’s love for them made those moments precious to me,” shared Jonah Zhang, the worship leader of the team.

On the third day, the team went out to call on 12 needy students and their families to bless them with daily necessities. Touched by the generosity and love of God demonstrated by the volunteers, two households received Christ! Later, one of the students went up to the volunteers excitedly to share how God had answered her prayer for her family’s salvation within the same day!

Nearing the end of the trip, Tay Chao Zhong, the videographer on staff, felt prompted to put down his camera and join the volunteers to bless the children at Cho-Lae School. As he hit the stage, the unassuming videographer was immediately transformed into a funky dance master leading the whole school in an impromptu hip hop dance exercise! 

“My primary objective was to film and document the whole trip, and I didn’t expect that God would use my dance skills to minister to the kids!” shared an elated Chao Zhong.

In the last session, the team sang the song, Pra Pi Da (Thai for Daddy God), together with the children. As the volunteers went around laying hands and praying for the kids, the anointing of the Lord fell like morning dew. Overwhelmed by the sweet presence of God, the children who were ministered to broke down in tears. 

The touching scene melted the hearts of our volunteers. As Jonah aptly put it, “No language barrier or walls built up on the inside can stop His great love from reaching the hearts of the children. Many cried and I believe that they had experienced Daddy God’s love first hand!” 

When the team bade their final farewell to the children, two of the teachers received Jesus which was in addition to the 113 children saved during the fruitful six-day stay at Cho-Lae School! During the closing assembly, one of the newly born-again teachers told the school that Jesus had entered their hearts and encouraged them to fix their eyes on Him! 

Though reluctant to leave their newfound friends, our missions team left Cho-Lae School with joy and full assurance that God would continue His good work and many more hearts would be turned to the Lord in the days to come!

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From 19 to 21 March 2013, Jesse Loong, a polytechnic student from The Zone (Youth) Ministry Arrow group, was on a mission trip in Chiang Rai, Thailand with mixed feelings.

“I was quite flustered before the trip. I was going through several personal challenges and I just felt like pulling out,” recollected Jesse.

Having reached the end of his tether, Jesse decided to cast his cares unto the Lord. Together with 44 other fellow friends and leaders from the same ministry, Jesse left for Thailand as planned.

The moment the team arrived at Pa Lai Luang Village, the zealous volunteers started sharing the gospel with the 114 village children aged between five and 16.

To make Bible lessons more engaging for the children, our volunteers put up skits that spoke of God’s unending love. Out of the 45-member team, Jeremy Yuen, 19, was picked to play Jesus.

“I had to throw away my pride and trust Him completely. It was no easy task to act in front of 114 kids. I felt the least qualified to act as Jesus,” shared Jeremy.

Despite his insecurities, almost no eyes were left dry when Jeremy cried, “It is finished!” during the crucifixion scene. This story of God’s everlasting love was all it took to move 95 children to give their lives to Jesus!

The trip ended with an evangelistic night for all the villagers. The event was graced by the village’s Head Chief, who warmly welcomed the team with an opening speech. Bridget Kang, the mission team leader, took the opportunity to share the gospel with the locals and 14 souls were won for Jesus that night!

As the trip drew to an end, the team came together to give thanks and rejoice over the great harvest of souls and friendships that were forged over the three days. Those who arrived with a heart to give, left with a bagful of God’s blessings and testimonies of His marvellous works.

For Jesse, restful increase came right after his return. It was as if God was showing him that He works and turns situations around for good when we place our cares in His mighty hands.

“When I got back, my FYP was on track, my family wasn’t quarrelling anymore, both my grandmothers were discharged and I found a better-paying job! Going on this mission trip has taught me to keep my eyes on Jesus and rest in Him!”

Like rain on parched ground, the Word of God brought new life to thirsty hearts and souls gathered at a ballroom in Kepri Mall, Batam. 

Led by Pastor Reinhad Simanjuntak from City Blessing Church, 141 pastors and leaders from seven different churches in Batam, Indonesia, turned up for a two-day Grace Seminar from 22 to 23 May 2013 with Pastor Lawrence Lim as the guest speaker. 

In his own down-to-earth preaching style, Pastor Lawrence unveiled the heart of the Father and the perfection of the finished work of Jesus. The atmosphere was saturated with the presence of the Lord when Jesus’ overwhelming love swept across the ballroom.

“In the past, I was never sure of my salvation as I was confused by seemingly contradicting verses that I had read,” shared Susanna, a local church leader. “But while listening to Pastor Lawrence, my tears just flowed as I felt the exceeding love of God. Many veils were lifted and I can now read the Word of God with clarity.”

Many more wrote in to testify how they had been touched by the grace of God. Among them was Pieter Slieker, 50, a missionary to Indonesia, who received the gift of praying in tongues on the first night of the seminar in his hotel room. 

“I felt the presence of God. I cried suddenly and my mouth spoke in a new tongue. I felt the Lord stroking my head like a father stroking his son. I knew instantly that my God had never condemned me and I realised how great the grace of Jesus is in my life. I have a new revelation about the gospel of grace and I am going to preach it whenever I have the chance!” 

Like Pieter, preaching the gospel had become effortless to the many men and women of God after the seminar. Pastors and leaders left the meeting feeling refreshed and invigorated to put the “amazing” back to the grace of God in their next preaching assignment.

“I am awesome!” declared Wan Xuan, one of the beneficiaries of New Creation Church’s (NCC) Outreach Community Service Programme.

To some, this may sound like a presumptuous statement. But to the 11-year-old from Shuqun Primary School, this was what she had been told by the servers from Pastoral Services Ministry and she was determined to run with this truth. 

On Saturday, 6 July 2013, a group of 51 servers from NCC’s Pastoral Services Ministry brought 38 students under the financial aid scheme in Shuqun Primary School, to the S.E.A. Aquarium on Sentosa. Among the many servers present was Jessie Choo, 48, a Business Development Manager and first-time volunteer. 

“To me, the outing is really about opening my heart to love the children,” shared the amiable mother of two.

At 7.30am, Jessie and team arrived promptly at Shuqun Primary School. The children could barely contain their excitement. Jessie especially, couldn’t wait to introduce herself to Andi, the little buddy she was attached to for that day. When she finally met Andi, God’s love and compassion began to melt away every barrier.

“This love is supernatural. It is such an awesome feeling. When we are filled with the love of God, we will just love others, even a stranger,” Jessie recollected.

The duo hit off almost immediately and before long, Andi couldn’t stop sharing about his ambition to be a policeman with his newfound friend, while Jessie spoke affirming words over him. 

“These kids need to be encouraged and I pray that whatever little I said or did will be a blessing,” shared Jessie.

By the time the day came to an end, the children had learnt many interesting facts about marine life and also got to put their little hands at work preparing beautiful handicrafts inspired by the sea creatures.

As a wrap-up, the volunteers took snapshots with their young buddies outside S.E.A. Aquarium as a memento. Each server also took this opportunity to pen down their words of encouragement for the children and prayed that these words would see them through every season of their lives.

Thirty-eight university students from The Zone (Youth) Ministry visited Serbnathithaam School in Chiang Mai, Thailand from 7 to 12 July 2012. Ministering to 639 students from Kindergarten One to Secondary Three, our youths were awed by God’s mighty work as they witnessed a great harvest of 190 salvations and received praise reports of children being healed.

Our youths shared that they had gone on the trip wanting to be a blessing but they were blessed by the children’s responsiveness to Jesus instead! Their exuberant attitude made it easy to form strong bonds and our volunteers thoroughly enjoyed sharing about Jesus with them. They listened intently during lessons on themes like “Jesus Died To Set You Free”, “Receive Jesus’ Love And Reign In Life” and “Jesus Is Your Source Of All Provision”, and clamoured to answer questions.

In one of the lessons, the children were told to stick black tape that represented their sins, on a boy dressed up as Jesus. This clear visual experience helped them understand the significance of Jesus taking all their sins at the cross for their sake. In another activity, they made colourful rainbows with tassels to remember God’s promise that He will never be angry with them.

On the last day, our volunteers held a carnival for the children. The school field was abuzz with activity that day as the students enjoyed outdoor games, ice cream treats and gifts specially prepared for them!

At the end of the trip, our university student volunteers knew that they have grown tremendously from their experiences — many stepped out of their comfort zone and did things they have never done before. They spoke to large crowds, imparted truths about Jesus to classes, built bonds with children in spite of language barriers and prayed with boldness in Jesus’ name. Among some of the precious testimonies they witnessed: A Primary Two student was healed of a headache on the spot, and another child was healed of a stomachache right after prayers. Above all, our volunteers knew beyond doubt that seeds of God’s love were sowed and planted in tender young lives.

Over the years, our church has worked closely with the Community Chest to offer help to the underprivileged and to give back to the community.

In recognition of our contributions to the social service in 2014, the Community Chest appreciated our church with the Corporate Silver Award.

At the presentation ceremony held on Friday, 25 September 2015, our chairman Deacon Matthew Kang received the award on behalf of the church from Mr Phillip Tan, the chairman of the Community Chest.

On 7 December 2013, more than 100 volunteers and staff from Outreach and Worship Ministry befriended 143 elderly from Senior Activity Centres of Lions Befrienders Ghim Moh and Care Corner Queenstown. These centres provide a network of social services to the needy, and New Creation Church was blessed to host the 2013 Christmas Banquet with them.

The seniors were treated to a sumptuous lunch and volunteers from the Worship Ministry serenaded the seniors with songs. 

Daryl, a Secondary 3 student, appreciated the opportunity to eat a Chinese dish called Lou Hei (salad eaten during Chinese New Year) and had prayed to God for it.  He shared the testimony that at this banquet, his prayer was answered when he finally ate the dish in addition to the bountiful eight course meal.

The blessed seniors left the event with mementos and the reminder that in Jesus, they are not alone.

“Lord, the youths from New Creation Church are coming to our village! I am sure I will be healed in no time. No more pain.”

It had been four torturous months for Pii Farm’s mum. Her chest had been hurting that she could not work in the kitchen. When she first heard about the team’s visit to her hometown, she began to recover gradually and finally on a fateful night in December 2013, God’s love broke through and shed a shimmer of hope into her condition.

Headed by Deacon Jiow Hee Jhun, 178 servers and leaders from our youth ministry (The Zone) went on a missions trip to Khun Mae Bong Village in Chiang Rai, Thailand from 1 to 7 December 2013. One of the key highlights of the trip was an Evangelistic Night where our volunteers collaborated with local Thai students to put up a host of enthralling performances that pointed to Jesus and His selfless sacrifice.

That evening, Deacon Hee Jhun shared the wonderful gospel of grace to the villagers and among them were Pii Farm and her mother. During the time of ministering, Pii Farm’s mother went up to a youth who laid hands and prayed for her complete healing.

Immediately, all the pain left and she was completely whole. Then, after much persuasion, the usually shy 56 year-old, stood forward and boldly proclaimed the goodness of God.  

Pii Farm and her mum’s story is one of the many testimonies reported since the year 2010 when New Creation Church volunteers first sowed the seeds of grace in Chiang Rai. Down through the years, our people have been blessed to see their labour of love bearing fruits. Trip reporter Clarice Sim observed that students who were touched on previous trips are now gloriously saved and baptised in the Holy Spirit!

Pii Chris, the founder of Gateway Connection (one of New Creation Church’s local partners), remarked that the salvation of a student’s father left a deep impression on him.

“New Creation Church volunteers visited this father last year but he did not receive Christ. However, through a divine arrangement, the same group of youths reappeared at his doorsteps this year and immediately, he was overwhelmed by the love of God and gave his life to Jesus!”

During the trip, our volunteers not only shared the gospel through home visits and lessons, they also demonstrated the love of God in many practical ways. In just seven days, they built a wall and repainted the classrooms in two schools and even tilled the fields for the village farmers!

A total of 1517 people benefitted from the community involvement projects carried out by our volunteers and 203 souls were saved for Jesus!

Truly, this trip was a perfect demonstration of God caring for the precious souls in Thailand. As 15-year-old Josephine Lim finally realised, God’s amazing love indeed knows no barriers and end. “Regardless of what language you speak, there is basically nothing that can stop Him from loving the people.”

So to God be all the glory for the wonderful things He has done!

Home is where the heart is, and home is where fun and play is best experienced. 

With the tagline adopted from Isaiah 58:12 “Rebuilder of Walls, Restorer of Homes”, 200 blessed youths from The Zone (Youth) Ministry turned up at Macpherson Primary School at the wake of the dawn to prepare for a family carnival.  Held on 23 November 2013, the community event was meant to bless 250 children and their parents through fun and play.

Led by team leaders Ariel Lim and Jodie Koh, the youths prepared song items, game stations and free-and-easy activities such as Henna and face painting. 

Everyone was eager to participate in the games and showed good sportsmanship. Other highlights of the day included balloon giveaways and free pop-corn and candy floss.

These children were recipients of the school’s Financial Assistance Scheme and with most parents spending a large amount of time working to support the family, this rare occasion served as a treat to the busy lifestyle. 

“Not much time is spent with my family. This was a good opportunity to spend time as a family together,” shared Kris, a father who is a full-time Gurkha.

The youths stepped out of their weekend routines to be a blessing to others.  By the end of the event, many felt the love of God present throughout the day.  

Janna Sim, 19, one of the youths from Arrow ministry shared, “These families are not well to do.  Time with their kids was lost to working all day so that they could support their families. This whole event showed me the love that these parents have for their kids. From there, I was reminded of how our Father loves us.”

As for Axel Ng, 21, the National Service man enthused, “I enjoyed seeing my team members do stuff that seemed small but mattered to the kids.  They would purposely lose in the game so that the families could catch up!”

This event is indeed a testimony of God’s love in action through His beloved children. Mr. Chong Chin Hong, vice-principal of Macpherson Primary School even complimented on the sincerity and enthusiasm displayed by our youths. He said, “Seeing the youths giving up their time to contribute and love the community, gave me faith for our next generation! Your youths are simply different!”

23 December 2017

At our Gift Of Love event in Woodlands on 23 December 2017, church council member Deacon Matthew Kang and Mr Amrin Amin, Member of Parliament for Sembawang Group Representation Constituency, presented grocery vouchers to over 140 underprivileged residents.

We also partnered a local Telugu-speaking church to organise two Christmas parties on 16 and 17 December 2017 for migrant workers in Singapore, where they enjoyed games, dancing, singing and gift bags filled with daily essentials. Praise the Lord that many received Jesus as the good news was preached!

Throughout December 2017, our church also reached out to the underprivileged overseas through our Gift Of Love Global initiative, working with schools, local churches and outreach partners in the slums to throw Christmas parties for more than 4,500 children in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand, as well as 5,650 prison inmates in Cambodia and Myanmar. We blessed them with delicious meals, gift packs and the sharing of the gospel!

9 December 2017

Our Gift Of Love initiative continued in full swing as our pastors, leaders and volunteers spread out across Singapore to bring Christmas cheer and bless more than 5,000 people, distributing grocery vouchers as well as gift packs and trolleys filled with daily essentials to underprivileged families and the elderly in nursing homes and community hospitals.

2 December 2017

Our Gift Of Love activities continued on Saturday, 2 December with some 2,600 people blessed as our pastors and volunteers went out into the Singapore heartlands to distribute grocery vouchers and greeting cards with handwritten messages to the homes of the underprivileged elderly and families.

Residents from a community home also enjoyed Christmas carols from our team who brought their guitarists and singing voices along as well!

25 November 2017

It‘s such a special blessing for us to show God's love and care to the less privileged in the community during the Christmas season, regardless of race, language or religion.

At Christmas Gift Of Love @ North East on Saturday, 25 November 2017, the first Gift Of Love project this year, we joined hands with North East Community Development Council and other organisations in Singapore to present a multicultural lunch party to 120 underprivileged families in Aljunied, Hougang, Pasir Ris, Punggol and Tampines.

The Guest Of Honour, Mr Desmond Choo, Mayor of North East District and Adviser to Tampines Grassroots Organisations, together with church council member Deacon Matthew Kang and Pastor Lawrence Lim, went around to the tables to present the families with gift vouchers sponsored by the church.

As they enjoyed their lunch, the families were treated to a song and dance number, a medley of Malay community songs and Christmas carols presented by our creative team, as well as performances by other organisations. All the performers also got together to sing This Is Home for the event finale, showing our unity as Singaporeans, regardless of race, language or religion.

Gift Of Love @ North East marks the first time the church is collaborating with other religious organisations in Singapore for the Christmas Gift Of Love lunch parties. It is also the first of many Gift Of Love projects by New Creation Church to give a total of S$600,000 in practical help to over 9,000people this Christmas season. Working with other Group Representation Constituencies (GRCs) and voluntary welfare organisations, congregation members of New Creation Church will be involved in distributing grocery vouchers and gift packs to underprivileged families, and gift packs to nursing home residents and staff, ex-offenders and migrant workers in Singapore on 2 and 9 December 2017.

Overseas, our Gift Of Love Global initiatives this year will see us planning Christmas parties for about 4,500 children living in slums and orphanages in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Thailand. We will also be giving gift packs of daily essentials to 5,650 prison inmates in Cambodia and Myanmar.

In total, since our Gift Of Love initiative began in 2014, including this year, we would have given out grocery vouchers and gift packs of daily essentials worth over S$1.7 million to more than 48,000 people. This comprises some 27,000 in Singapore and, through our Gift Of Love Global initiative, another 21,000 children and prison inmates overseas.

Truly, we are blessed to be a blessing.

Our team of volunteers sprang into action on 21 July 2018 to clean the homes of 11 underprivileged elderly from NTUC Health (Lengkok Bahru) Senior Activity Centre. They also got to spend time with the elderly folks and enjoy lunch together.

There were smiles and laughter all around as 20 individuals with special needs from APSN Centre for Adults enjoyed a fun time bowling with our volunteers. After the game, they tucked into lunch and also brought home gift bags as well as prizes.

Over 240 leaders and their spouses had a fruitful time at a marriage seminar helmed by Pastor Mark Ng and Pastor Louis Teng in China. The seminar from 20 to 24 August 2018 was marked by fun, laughter and a heart-warming session where the couples renewed their marriage vows.

The local worship leaders were also blessed through practical training sessions conducted by Pastor Louis and volunteers from our Chinese Ministry’s worship team.

Nearly 500 souls saved. How precious is that! In December 2017, over two trips to two schools in Chiang Rai, Thailand, Secondary 3 students from our DARE youth group helped at Bible camps where they shared the gospel with the Thai students and organised games for them. Our volunteers also visited the homes of underprivileged kids to share the good news of Jesus and pray for their families.

Already friends through previous visits, our volunteers and the individuals with special needs from local charity AWWA enjoyed a pleasant morning on 20 January 2018 engaged in craft work, conversation and a nasi lemak (a local coconut rice dish) lunch together.

An eye infection healed, an incessant ringing in the ear stopped and wrist pain gone! Volunteers from Varsity, our youth group for university students, witnessed these miracles in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as they prayed for villagers in need of a healing touch from Jesus. The team also encouraged local youths in a sharing session, taught good hygiene tips to some 490 people and distributed personal hygiene kits to bless them. Through this mission trip in February 2018, 115 precious souls were won for Christ!

On 10 March 2018, our volunteers organised a party for the elderly at Lions Befrienders, Ghim Moh. Here is a glimpse of the wonderful time they had, and the smiles on their faces!

In April 2018, Pastor Mark Ng from our Chinese Ministry had the privilege of impacting over 200 Bible school students and church leaders in China. The participants are based in various cities and many of them are young people who are hungry to learn God’s truths. Praise God for the opportunity to sow into their lives! 

We’re thrilled to see a new generation of believers rising up in Europe—hungry for the things of God and the ways of His grace!

Preaching at Holy Spirit Night 2018 in Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal, Switzerland and Ukraine, Pastor Benjamin Lim ministered to over 14,000 young people over a span of 11 days from 26 September to 6 October 2018. He also joined other speakers at a panel session where they shared leadership principles with 200 pastors and leaders in Stuttgart, Germany.

Our free temporary clinic set up in Kampong Thom, Cambodia between 23 and 28 April 2018 saw many of the poor receive free medical and dental treatments.

In all, over 1,500 patients were treated and more than 1,000 people received Christ into their lives as the gospel was shared. Many experienced the Lord’s healing touch as well!

We are grateful that we get to be a blessing to those around us. At the U Care Charity Dinner on Wednesday, 4 October 2017, Pastor Lawrence Lim received a token of appreciation from Mr Chan Chun Sing, Minister in the Prime Minister‘s Office (PMO) and Secretary-General of the National Trades Union Congress (NTUC) for our gift of $50,000 to the NTUC-U Care Fund, an initiative which helps underprivileged families, children and the elderly.

To show our love for Singapore and support for racial and religious harmony, our volunteers gave out free ice cream and sang songs in different languages to bless residents at the Punggol North Racial and Religious Harmony Street Parade 2017 and Family Carnival on Sunday, 16 July 2017.

At the event, church council member Deacon Matthew Kang also received a token of appreciation on behalf of our church from Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), Coordinating Minister for National Security and Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency.

It is our privilege to be able to help our community. Our church donated $25,000 to support the North East Community Development Council‘s programmes for the underprivileged, elderly and people with special needs.

At the Community Give Back Golf and Appreciation Dinner 2017 on Tuesday, 23 May 2017, church council member Deacon Matthew Kang received a token of appreciation for our support from Mr Teo Ser Luck, Mayor of North East District and Minister of State for Manpower.

Updated on 31 Jan 2017

Over the Christmas and New Year period, we continued to collaborate with outreach partners in the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and Nepal to share our gifts of love with underprivileged children and inmates.

Christmas parties were organised for the children where they got to enjoy scrumptious meals, bring home goodie bags and learn about the true meaning of Christmas — Jesus. About 3,000 inmates from Cambodia and Myanmar also received our gifts packs of daily necessities — many of them also heard the good news preached to them.

In total, more than 8,000 people in Southeast Asia were blessed with practical presents of food, new clothing, groceries, toiletries, and more importantly, the gift of acceptance and friendship through our Gift Of Love GLOBAL!

On the home front, we partnered with two local churches to reach out to migrant workers from India and China — almost 500 people were touched, and close to 60 souls were saved!

Updated on 11 Dec 2016

Gift Of Love Singapore

Our Gift Of Love outreach initiative continued to bring the joy of the Christmas season to the local community on Saturday, 10 December 2016.

More than 400 volunteers from different ministries, including their family members and our pastors, participated in this meaningful event where they brought gifts of love such as supermarket vouchers and bags of daily necessities to bless nursing home residents, low-income families and ex-offenders. They also sang songs, gave out personally written greeting cards and helped serve food to the recipients.

Some of Singapore’s leaders also supported the event by joining our volunteers as they gave out supermarket vouchers to the underprivileged families in their constituencies.

Gift Of Love Global

For the second year running, our church is reaching out to bless the underprivileged children and inmates beyond Singapore through the Gift Of Love GLOBAL outreach initiative. With the help of local partners in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand, we will be bringing Christmas cheer to more than 8,000 children and inmates and blessing them with daily necessities and stationery.

The activities started in the first week of December 2016, where our outreach partners in Batam, Indonesia organised a Christmas party for local students and orphans, and distributed our gifts of love to them.

Updated on 4 Dec 2016

It is the month of December and our church’s Gift Of Love outreach effort is entering into full swing! More than 8,000 people including underprivileged families, single mothers, foreign workers and ex-offenders in our community will receive supermarket vouchers and gift packs of daily necessities from our church in the lead-up to Christmas.

On Saturday, 3 December 2016, our pastors and congregation members spread out across the island in the morning to deliver supermarket vouchers and Christmas cards with personally penned messages to recipients from various welfare organisations.

We also delivered gift packs of daily necessities to some 700 elderly nursing home residents, and sang Christmas carols at the homes to bring cheer to the elderly residents.

In the evening, we partnered a local Telugu-speaking church to organise a Christmas celebration for foreign workers at their dormitory. At the celebration, the workers enjoyed Christmas carols, a dance item as well as songs sung in English, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi. Our volunteers gave out some 900 gift packs to bless the workers at the end of the event.

Updated on 19 Nov 2016

On Saturday, 19 November 2016, together with Marsiling grassroots organisations, our church jointly organised Christmas Gift Of Love 2016, a lunch party for 150 underprivileged households from Marsiling complete with a sumptuous meal, performances, as well as $30,000 worth of supermarket vouchers and trolleys filled with daily essentials as gifts.

We were privileged to have Guest Of Honour Madam Halimah Yacob, Speaker of the Singapore Parliament, Adviser to Marsiling Grassroots Organisations and Member of Parliament for Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency, with us to distribute the vouchers and trolleys to the individuals and families at the party together with our chairman Deacon Matthew Kang and Pastor Lawrence Lim.

Our volunteers also staged an entertaining multicultural programme comprising a Malay medley, a song and dance item, and “This Is Home”, a finale song that reflects our love for the nation and the people of Singapore, regardless of race, language or religion. Our volunteers also took instant photographs for the residents to keep as mementoes of the occasion.

Two of the news reports on the event are available online:

• The Straits Times: Christmas Comes Early For Marsiling Needy
• Channel 8 News: 马西岭区150户弱势家庭提早庆祝圣诞节

Christmas Gift Of Love 2016 is the first of many Gift Of Love projects planned for the Christmas season. Over two more Saturdays, on 3 and 10 December 2016, our church members will fan out across Singapore to visit some 8,000 underprivileged people, ex-offenders, widows, foreign workers and elderly patients in nursing homes and community hospitals to bless them with supermarket vouchers or gift packs of daily essentials.

On the overseas front, under Gift Of Love Global, we will also be organising Christmas parties for 5,250 children who live in slums and orphanages in Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines and Thailand, and giving gift packs of daily essentials to 3,350 prisoners in Cambodia and Myanmar.

In total, from 2014 when Gift Of Love was first started to this year, we have helped more than 29,000 people comprising some 18,000 in Singapore and more than 11,000 overseas, with donations in the form of vouchers and gift packs amounting to around $1.1 million.

Christmas is a season of giving and a wonderful opportunity for us to be a blessing and a beacon of God’s love to our community.

In the month of December, we will be bringing Christmas cheer and practical gifts to more than 7,000 underprivileged people regardless of race, language or religion, through our Gift of Love events and activities held all over Singapore.

Our activities also extended overseas with Gift Of Love Global. We brought gifts and special meals to some 13,300 prison inmates and underprivileged children in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines.
 

30 December 2019

Everyone knows the universal language of kids—presents and yummy food! We’re so happy to bring the love of Jesus to some 5,500 children from villages, slums and children’s hospitals in Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines, as part of our Gift Of Love Global initiative. 
 

The love of God transcends geographical barriers. We partnered with local organisations to bring Christmas to some 7,800 prison inmates in Cambodia and Myanmar with gifts of Bible story booklets, blankets and a special meal of chicken curry.

Our partners also sang worship songs and shared the Word with them. Many of the inmates shed tears when they heard about how Jesus loves them and is able to give them hope!
 

22 December 2019

They may be far from home, but they’re definitely not alone! Fellowship and joy abounded at our Gift Of Love celebration dinner for 350 migrant workers. 

At the dinner were flavours of home, gifts, performances, as well as a time of praise and worship led by volunteers from our church’s Tamil fellowship group.

We also partnered with a local Telugu church to share the Word, and 23 brothers accepted Christ as their Saviour!
 

14 December 2019

At our Christmas Gift of Love event on Saturday, 14 December 2019, we partnered Marsiling Citizens’ Consultative Committee to bless 1,050 underprivileged families with supermarket vouchers.

Our council member Deacon Matthew Kang and Pastor Lawrence Lim, together with Mr Zaqy Mohamad, Minister of State for National Development and Manpower, presented each family with $100 worth of vouchers.

Meanwhile, more of our pastors and volunteers fanned out across Singapore to visit underprivileged elderly at their homes and senior activity centres to bless them with handwritten Christmas cards and shopping vouchers worth $100.
 

7 December 2019

Festive cheer was in the air as our pastors and volunteers visited nursing homes across Singapore as part of our Christmas Gift Of Love 2019 initiative. That morning, they distributed gift packs and handwritten cards to some 1,900 elderly residents and rang in the Christmas season with carolling, smiles and love.
 

7 December 2019, 7.30pm

At the Christmas Gift Of Love celebration held at Ci Yuan Community Club, some 120 underprivileged families from Ang Mo Kio-Hougang Constituency enjoyed a dinner party and received $100 each in supermarket vouchers sponsored by our church. 

The guest of honour, Mr Darryl David, Member of Parliament for Ang Mo Kio GRC, joined our church council member Deacon Matthew Kang in distributing the vouchers to each of the families present.
 

7 December 2019, 4pm

At our second Christmas Gift of Love event, about 300 low-income families from Boon Lay Constituency received $100 in supermarket vouchers from our church. We also got to visit some of the families in their homes.

Mr Patrick Tay, Member of Parliament for West Coast GRC, was the guest of honour at the event, where he distributed the vouchers together with Pastor Lawrence Lim. 
 

7 December 2019, 12pm

We kicked off our annual Gift Of Love initiative with a Christmas Gift Of Love event organised in partnership with North East Community Development Council to bring festive cheer to some 300 underprivileged families.

This year, our gift of love to each household comprises $100 worth of supermarket vouchers and $50 in meal vouchers. In addition, we also gave out trolleys to the families for their grocery shopping.

We were honoured to have Mr Heng Swee Keat, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, and Mr Masagos Zulkifli, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, and Mayor Desmond Choo join us at the event.

Our church council member Deacon Matthew Kang, Pastor Lawrence Lim and Pastor Joash Siow were also there to present the gifts to the families and join some of them to do grocery shopping with the supermarket vouchers. It was wonderful to see them load up the gift trolleys with items for their families!

It is that joyful season of Christmas when we seek to give to the community. Our volunteers fanned out all over the island as part of the Gift Of Love initiative, bringing Christmas cheer and practical help to the residents in various constituencies, social service organisations, and nursing homes. We showed God’s love to about 7,000 underprivileged people with about $470,000 in practical gifts. We will also be reaching out to over 11,000 people in Cambodia, Indonesia, India, Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines through our Gift Of Love Global programme.

Updated on 19 December 2018

We are thankful for the opportunity to reach out to over 5,000 prison inmates in Cambodia and Myanmar through our Gift Of Love Global initiative. Not only did they receive gift packs and delicious meals, many also received Jesus Christ as Saviour as the good news was preached!

Updated on 9 December 2018

At the third and final Christmas Gift Of Love event organised by our church with Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC Grassroots Organisations (GROs) on Saturday, 8 December 2018, Mr Lawrence Wong, Minister for National Development and Adviser to Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC GROs, who was the guest of honour at the lunch event, presented gift trolleys to 900 families together with Mr Zaqy Mohamad, Minister of State for National Development and Manpower, our church council member Deacon Matthew Kang, Pastor Lawrence Lim and Pastor Louis Teng.

On the same morning, our volunteer teams also visited nursing homes across Singapore bringing Christmas cheer to the elderly there with gifts of daily essentials, songs of joy, and bright, cheery smiles.

1 December 2018, 7pm

At the Christmas Gift Of Love dinner party, 150 families from Ang Mo Kio Group Representation Constituency (GRC) enjoyed a buffet dinner with Christmas carols as well as $100 in supermarket vouchers. 

The event was jointly organised by our church and Ci Yuan Community Club Management Committee, with Mr Darryl David, Member of Parliament for Ang Mo Kio GRC, as the guest of honour.
 

1 December 2018, 12pm

We kicked off this year’s Gift Of Love 2018 activities with a Christmas Gift Of Love lunch party for 300 underprivileged families in West Coast GRC and Pioneer Constituency where they were blessed with $60,000 in supermarket vouchers and gift trolleys filled with daily essentials.

Held on Saturday, 1 December 2018 at Boon Lay Community Centre, the lunch party was co-organised by our church with West Coast GRC and Pioneer Constituency Grassroots Organisations (GROs), and was the first of three Christmas Gift Of Love events held this year.

The guest of honour, Mr S Iswaran, Minister for Communications and Information, Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations, and Adviser for West Coast GRC GROs, together with our church council member Deacon Matthew Kang and Pastor Lawrence Lim, presented the supermarket vouchers sponsored by our church to the families at each table during the lunch party.

As the families tucked into lunch, our church’s creative team presented a multicultural programme featuring items like Singai Naadu, Ku Mohon, 小人物的心声, We Are Singapore, Christmas carols and a rendition of the popular national song, Home.

This morning, our pastors, leaders and volunteers also brought Christmas cheer to more than 2,000 underprivileged people as they visited families around Singapore. They gave each household $100 in supermarket vouchers.

This year, through the Gift Of Love events, New Creation Church will be giving about $470,000 worth of gifts including supermarket and retail vouchers, as well as gift trolleys filled with daily essentials to about 7,000 underprivileged people. Since 2014, our church has helped over 67,000 people in Singapore and the region through Gift Of Love with a total giving worth about $2 million.

The foundation for church leadership is Christ's finished work and His gift of righteousness! Pastor Benjamin Lim had the privilege of expounding on this truth to pastors and leaders at a leadership conference in the Netherlands in November 2018.

He also preached at a Sunday service at New Testament Church IJsselstein, where he led in a time of ministering with the church leaders in praying over the congregation! 

Following that, Pastor Benjamin travelled to Birmingham, the United Kingdom, where he and Pastor Alvin Kang got to share about Jesus and biblical truths on His grace and love with pastors, leaders and believers. This happened over two days at a conference organised by Five Grace Church.

We believe we are blessed to be a blessing. Besides our overseas mission work, we have been actively serving and showing love to our local community, particularly the underprivileged, in the course of 12 months from August 2016 to July 2017.

UNDERPRIVILEGED ELDERLY
 

We regularly visit the less privileged elderly in nursing homes, family service centres and senior activity centres, and bring them out for outings. During Mother’s Day and Father’s Day in 2017, we also celebrated with them and honoured them with gifts.

LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN
 

Children are precious to us. In August 2016, our church gave out educational bursaries to help students from low-income families, including those with special needs.

In July 2017, we also gave out new school shoes to some 950 students, many of them also with special needs, through our Happy Feet initiative.

FOREIGN WORKERS
 

We also reach out to migrant workers in our community who have contributed to Singapore.

Earlier this year, together with a local Telugu-speaking church, we organised an appreciation dinner for over 400 Indian foreign workers and shared the gospel with them in their own language. Praise the Lord that over 40 people received Jesus as their Saviour!

We also showed love and care to domestic workers from Humanitarian Organization for Migration Economics, or HOME, by organising a fun outing for them. HOME is a local charity which cares for migrant workers and victims of abuse human trafficking.

In all, over 2,900 volunteers from various ministries participated in more than 150 activities, blessing about 12,900 in our community.

…‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me.‘ (Matthew 25:40)

Updated on 5 December 2019

Since 2015, New Creation Church has been partnering with local partners in the region to set up overseas feeding programmes and provide nutritious meals for some 1,500 children living in slums in the Philippines, Cambodia and Myanmar. We have also been giving out bags of rice to 300 impoverished families in the Philippines.

Through this outreach initiative, we hope to show God‘s love to these vulnerable children and underprivileged families in a practical way and are thankful for the opportunity to be a blessing to them.

The Philippines
 

Number of children blessed: 940
Number of families blessed: 200

In June 2015, our church began a feeding programme for some 300 children of Happyland slum in Tondo, Manila and it now feeds 900 children every Saturday at a children‘s church. The children also get to hear the gospel as well!

There is also a separate programme where 40 of these children, who face particularly difficult circumstances, receive two meals a day on week days, and once on a Saturday.

With the help of a local church, we also give out bags of rice to 200 impoverished families there every week.

Cambodia
 

Number of children blessed: 480

In 2015, we started providing some 100 children in Phnom Penh‘s House Above The Waters Slums with three meals a week. The programme now feeds three groups of children in Phnom Penh and one in Sihanoukville, providing five meals every week to some 480 children.

Myanmar
 

Number of children blessed: 100

In Myanmar, our feeding programme was started in June 2016. Since then, we have been providing one meal five days a week for children from a slum in Yangon. On Saturdays, the meal is served at a local church where the gospel is also shared with them.

Building on the foundation that was laid by our Outreach teams over the past few years, our church was back in Chang Rai, Thailand in late 2016. This time round, some 160 participants comprising of Secondary 3 students, leaders and adult volunteers from our youth group DARE, visited Ban Mea Aeb village between 21 and 25 November, and Pai Lai Luang village from 28 November to 2 December.

During the trips, our youths stepped up to plan and run the programmes themselves, with guidance from their leaders. In spite of the language barrier, they conducted classroom lessons for students at the village schools, shared the gospel with the villagers during home visits, organised fun-filled carnivals and telematches to engage with the school children.

Sumiko shared her experience ministering to the children in Ban Mea Aeb School. “During the first lesson, we decided to sing the song O Daddy God in Thai. Initially, we were quite nervous but slowly, the presence of God filled the place. Though there was a language barrier, we prayed in the Spirit and the children started crying. We were later told that the children felt a sense of love in their hearts and we knew it was Jesus.”

On the mission trip, our youths also hosted two evangelistic nights to share the gospel with the villagers and minister healing to the sick.

At Ban Mea Aeb, a lady was healed from numbness in her hands and legs, and there were also reports of people who were set free from chronic headaches and knee pains. Indeed, our Lord Jesus is the Healer!

All in all, our leaders and volunteers reached out to more than 1,500 precious people, and 584 of them gave their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah!

Some 500 migrant workers had a little taste of home at a special lunch party organised by our volunteers on Tuesday, 29 May 2018, complete with games, dance, a skit and delicious Indian cuisine. Pastor K E Mathews also prayed for the sick and shared the gospel, leading nearly 40 souls to Jesus!

Our team of pastors and leaders were in China from 15 to 19 January 2018 where they conducted practical sessions on building church life. In attendance were pastors, church leaders, staff, volunteers and council members from across China and in Taiwan.

Pastor Mark Ng and Pastor Lawrence Lim encouraged the participants from the Word and, together with Pastor Christina Wee and Pastor Ronald Koh, shared biblical principles and practical handles for managing the youth and pastoral ministries among other things. In addition, members of our team held breakout sessions on worship.

Council Chairman Deacon Yong Chee Ram also took the time to lead dialogue sessions on the role of the church council in supporting the church.

We are thankful to be able to be part of building up the body of Christ in China and are privileged to witness the work that the Lord is doing there.

What a joy to be able to bless the elderly with ang paos (red packets with money) during the weeks leading up to Chinese New Year!

At a celebration dinner in Boon Lay on Saturday, 3 February 2018, Pastor Lawrence Lim represented our church to give out the ang paos together with Mr Patrick Tay, BBM, Adviser to Boon Lay Grassroots Organisations and Member of Parliament for West Coast Group Representation Constituency.

On Sunday, 11 February 2018, our council member, Deacon Matthew Kang, was at a celebration luncheon in Marsiling where he also gave out ang paos to the elderly residents with Mr Lawrence Wong, Minister for National Development, Second Minister for Finance and Adviser to the grassroots organisations of Marsiling-Yew Tee Group Representation Constituency.

Over the past few years, our church has partnered The New Charis Mission (TNCM), a local non-profit charity, to show grace and support to ex-offenders, ex-addicts and the underprivileged.

Besides our giving, our pastors have had the privilege to share the Word and minister to residents of TNCM’s rehabilitation programme. In addition, volunteers from our church showed practical love by delivering gift packs and handwritten notes to their families during the Christmas season last year. This year, our volunteers are also participating in TNCM’s community initiatives like Project Heart Of Love to help clean and refurbish the homes of elderly people who live alone.

On 4 September 2016, Chairman Deacon Matthew Kang represented our church at TNCM’s 10th anniversary celebration dinner where Dr Ng Eng Hen, Singapore’s Minister for Defence was the guest-of-honour.

On the evening of Thursday, 18 August 2016, a group of pastors, leaders and congregation members from our church were present at the National Day Thanksgiving Service to show love and support for Singapore, our home.

Held at St Andrew’s Cathedral, the service was organised by the National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) to pray for Singapore in celebration of her 51st year of independence and give thanks to God for our nation. President Tony Tan and his wife also graced the event.

Latest update on 21 September 2016

Our giving to support the work of Amity Foundation in providing relief supplies had helped 275 households comprising more than 1,120 people in flood-stricken Yunnan, China. In total, 13,750kg of rice were distributed to the flood victims.

26 July 2016

In early July 2016, torrential rains caused widespread flooding and related disasters in several provinces in China. In Yunnan’s Yanjin County alone, thousands have lost their homes and means of livelihood.

Our church has contributed $20,000 to support the work of Amity Foundation, a Chinese non-governmental organisation, to provide flood relief supplies in Yunnan.

On 28 May 2016, Pastor Louis Teng and volunteers from our church joined 58 residents and staff of The New Charis Mission (TNCM) for their morning devotion. TNCM operates a halfway house, providing a holistic rehabilitation programme for ex-drug offenders to help them to reintegrate into society.

The devotion began with a refreshing time of praise and worship. This was followed by a sermon preached in English by Pastor Louis, which was simultaneously translated into Mandarin by a volunteer from our Chinese Ministry. In his message, Pastor Louis shared about God’s restoration from the Bible and affirmed attendees of the Lord’s unconditional love for them. After his sharing, he ministered to them through two Hokkien songs before the Worship team presented a special song item.

At the end of the session, each resident received a book gift for their reading programme. Our church also contributed a collection of grace-based books and sermon DVDs to TNCM’s library to encourage residents in their walk with God.

Being a part of the outreach event has been a blessing to our volunteers as well. Tricia Chew, an administrator, shared how the meaningful session reminded her of God’s goodness in her own life. “It was a privilege to serve today. As I hear the precious testimonies shared, I am reminded of how the Lord delivered me from a delinquent lifestyle years ago — only the Lord is able to transform and restore us, and give us beauty for ashes!”

Some 30 migrant workers from the Humanitarian Organisation For Migration Economics (H.O.M.E), a charity in Singapore that cares for migrant workers and victims of human trafficking, were blessed at a Hort Park outing on 28 May 2016.

Organised by our volunteers, the event began bright and early at 8am, and was filled with fun activities to bring joy and cheer to the migrant workers. To give them an opportunity to build friendships, the workers were split into groups before they participated in games such as a treasure hunt.

An Indian worker was grateful for the outing as it gave her a break and took her mind off her problems, and in the process, she also got to know her friends better. Another worker from the Philippines shared that she had a lot of fun and enjoyed the team bonding games.

Lunch was arranged for the workers to enjoy a meal together near the park, and they went home with door gifts and the game prizes they had won.

From 13 to 17 August 2012, Pastor Lawrence Lim spent five fruitful days in Nepal preaching to 100 pastors and church leaders, and visiting the ministry that our church had sowed into.

For most of the pastors, this was the first time they were hearing the gospel of grace. Some had even travelled for days from neighbouring countries, Bhutan and India, just to hear the good news. Invited by Pastor Raju from Hosanna Church Ministry, Pastor Lawrence preached the powerful message of God’s grace and love at an intense two-day Grace Seminar.

In the Spirit-filled prayer session led by Pastor Lawrence, many were embraced by the Holy Spirit and others joyfully shared that the fresh revelation of God’s love inspired them to move forward to the next level in their ministry!

Pastor Raju shared that after he read Pastor Prince’s book, Destined To Reign in 2009, an amazing breakthrough took place in his ministry. With the revelation that the pulpit is a place to feed God’s love to His people, his congregation has grown so much that he now holds two services on Sundays for 1,000 adults and 400 children.

God also used Pastor Raju’s ministry mightily and gave him the favour to set up the first church in an isolated village populated by the Badi caste. In just three years, 300 girls were rescued from prostitution and given free lodging and education at Badi Girls’ Home, also supported by New Creation Church.

Pastor Lawrence visited the girls’ home and ministered to the girls with prayers of restoration and healing. During the time spent, many testimonies were shared, giving glory to God’s work in Nepal!

Our church is blessed and privileged to be able to help the local community. In May 2016, we contributed S$25,000 to support North East Community Development Council’s (North East CDC) initiatives to help the underprivileged, elderly and those with special needs.

The money goes to programmes like Dedicated North East Ambulance which provides subsidised ambulance transport service to scheduled medical or dialysis appointments for the underprivileged residents who are wheelchair- or bed-bound, and North East School Meal Fund which helps provide meals for 1,800 disadvantaged students during school days.

In appreciation of our support for the North East CDC over the past year, New Creation Church was presented with the Community Give Back Awards 2016 on Wednesday, 25 May 2016. Chairman Deacon Matthew Kang represented our church at an appreciation event to receive the award from Mr Teo Ser Luck, Mayor of North East District.

In December 2010, widespread flooding hit Australia, primarily in the state of Queensland. The massive deluge devastated many communities as properties were inundated, and thousands of people were forced to evacuate their homes. Nearly three-quarters of Queensland was declared a disaster zone.

New Creation Church gave AUD $15,000 in the aftermath of the disaster in aid of the victims. Our funds were channelled through Generation Church CityCare Services, and the money will go towards the provision of flood relief packs for affected families.

13 May 2016

Our church is extending practical help by giving US$10,000 towards the relief efforts in Kumamoto, Japan where earthquakes in April 2016 caused significant destruction and displaced thousands of people.

We are working with Lifehouse Church in Japan and our giving will go towards the work of clearing housing rubble, buying ingredients for hot food, purchasing petrol for sending resources to the hardest hit area, and the distribution of resources and essential supplies to the evacuation centre for earthquake victims.

Let’s continue to keep the nation of Japan and its people in prayer.

New Creation Church supports children whose parents are members of the Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Limited (ISCOS), a social enterprise to help ex-offenders reintegrate into the society. Through a series of enrichment programmes titled Precious Gems, our church brought these children on learning journeys to places such as Hay Dairies goat farm, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve and Pulau Ubin in 2010.

At the opening of ISCOS’s new office on Friday, 21 January 2011, guest-of-honour for the event, Mr Masagos Zulkifli, Minister of State, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Home Affairs presented a token of appreciation to Deacon Matthew Kang for our church’s support.

It was a blast from the past for a group of 30 underprivileged elderly from NTUC SilverAce (Lengkok Bahru) when our volunteers brought them on a memorable outing to the National Museum.

Some 20 volunteers woke up bright and early on 7 May 2016 to spend the day with the elderly who were divided into six groups, with each group being accompanied by at least two volunteers. To kick-start the event, everyone gathered for a group photo at the entrance of the museum.

As the beneficiaries explored the exhibitions and galleries at the museum, they were delighted to recognise familiar sights from Singapore’s early years of independence. Some whipped out their mobile phones eagerly to snap photos of the exhibits.

A lady in her 60s said, “I enjoyed myself. I have not been to the museum for a long time. Happy to see things from my kampong days. Thank you for taking us to the museum.”

Our volunteers also took pictures for the elderly and presented the photos as gifts. After exploring the museum, the volunteers and beneficiaries headed to a mall for lunch. Even while serving food to the beneficiaries, the volunteers were joyful, bringing smiles to them.

Conversations and easy banter between our volunteers and the elderly continued to flow even on the bus journey back to Lengkok Bahru.

The elderly participants were not the only ones who were blessed. Dennis Ng, 41, one of our volunteers said, “It was a day well-spent, giving all of us a chance to get to know the elderly and to show love and care. All praise to Jesus who enables us to do all things.”

On Tuesday, 22 February 2011, a 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand, causing widespread destruction and affecting hundreds of lives across the city.

To help the victims of the earthquake, New Creation Church gave US$20,000 through ARISE Church, New Zealand. The church is actively involved in the relief efforts for the earthquake. The funds will be channelled towards providing basic necessities such as food, water, clothing and medical supplies to the victims.

Led by Pastor Lawrence Lim, our medical mission team comprising of volunteers such as medical doctors, pharmacists and nurses, were in Kampong Thom, Cambodia, from 18 to 23 April 2016.

On the first day, three of our volunteer doctors conducted medical education talks for medical students and healthcare staff from One-to-One Cambodia, a local non-profit organisation.

The following day, on 19 April 2016, the team were on site at Komru Primary School with One-to-One Cambodia to set up a free medical clinic for the poor. Each day, hundreds of villagers with different kinds of ailments would turn up at the makeshift clinic to receive free medical treatments.

The team also set up a Prayer And Healing Room at the clinic to share the gospel and minister to the people. There, the team was able to witness first-hand many miraculous healings after praying for the sick — an elderly lady who was lame, was able to walk again; a man who suffered poor vision after a head injury, could see clearly again; another man who had difficulty moving his left arm due to a stroke regained his movement.

Watch this man’s testimony of how Jesus touched and restored him:

And a little girl who was hearing impaired since birth, had her hearing restored instantly after hands were laid on her in prayer. Glory to Jesus! It is no wonder that the clinic is affectionately known among locals as the “Jesus Clinic”. Through this medical mission, more than 1,800 villagers were treated, and a total of 1,479 precious souls opened their hearts to receive Jesus!

New Creation Church contributed $20,000 in support of needy families and youths through the Tentera DiRaja Mosque Charity Golf Tournament.

The Tentera DiRaja Mosque has organised numerous activities in close collaboration with the Malay and Muslim community since 1961. The proceeds from the charity golf tournament will go towards improving their outreach programmes, such as Mudik Ke Hulu, which seeks to help juvenile delinquents who are undergoing rehabilitation.

At the post-event dinner held at the Raffles Country Club on Wednesday, 23 March 2011, guest-of-honour Mr S Iswaran, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Trade and Industry, and Ministry of Education presented to Deacon Matthew Kang a token of appreciation for our church’s contribution.

Between 21 and 26 March 2016, 32 volunteers from GenRev, our youth group for young working adults, partnered with a local church and a non-profit organisation, One-2-One Charitable Trust, to reach out to villagers and school children in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. They were accompanied by volunteer interpreters from the local church and One-2-One.

The team spent time at Smach Daeng Primary School with a total of 1,100 students aged from 4 to 13 years old, many of whom are from low-income families.

At the primary school, our volunteers played games with the students to break the ice before sharing Bible lessons centred on the heavenly Father’s love for them. After the Bible lessons each day, the volunteers would conduct a short health education session on good hygiene practices and help the children to clip their nails. The children in each class also received a gift pack containing toiletries and some food.

In addition, a games carnival was organised for the children on 24 March 2016 and they enjoyed outdoor games such as dodgeball and team races.

On Friday, 11 March 2011, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit the north-east coast of Japan, followed closely by a devastating tsunami that displaced thousands of families. Tremors could be felt in several parts of Japan, including Tokyo.

To help the victims of these two disasters, New Creation Church gave $10,000 through Tohoku Central Church in Miyagi, Japan, located 25km north of Sendai and 15km south of the worst-hit areas. The giving will go towards helping Tohoku Central Church members who are going through financial hardship due to the disasters, as well as the needs of the church.

In support of efforts to reach out to the local community, New Creation Church took part in the Orange Ribbon Celebrations to raise awareness on racial and religious harmony as well as contributed more than $98,000 worth of cash donations and sponsorship in kind to Central Singapore Community Development Council’s (CS CDC) Bright Homes programmes in 2010.

To recognise New Creation Church’s contribution, CS CDC nominated our church for the People’s Association Community Spirit (PACS) Awards under the category “Partners Of CDCs”. The award aims to acknowledge organisations which have supported the community outreach efforts of the People’s Association and its various organisations. The panel of judges, chaired by Mr Lim Boon Heng, Minister, Prime Minister’s Office and Deputy Chairman of the People’s Association, selected New Creation Church to receive the Excellence Award in that category.

On behalf of our church, Deacon Matthew Kang received the award at the awards ceremony held on Wednesday, 8 June 2011 at Fairmont Hotel at the Raffles City Convention Centre.

Over 20 children from Rock Kidz, joined their parents and church volunteers in a visit to elderly members of Peace Haven Nursing Home on 9 July 2011.

The Primary 3 and 4 children and adult volunteers played games, sang songs, served snacks, and chatted with the senior citizens. It was a wonderful opportunity to minister the love of Jesus.

“I was touched to see the Ah Kongs and Ah Mahs happily clapping and playing games with us,” said Ilysa Or, 10, from Rock Kidz. “I was also able to pray for them too!”

“When the children went forward to pray for the elderly, many of the old folks were visibly moved by their gesture,” said Huang Meijie, an executive with Rock Kidz. “There was such a sweet tangible presence of the Lord, and I believe every single one was touched by His love!”

New Creation Church commemorated racial and religious harmony in Singapore by supporting the nationwide Orange Ribbon Celebrations 2011.

Our church distributed orange-coloured ribbons to congregation members in attendance at our services on Sunday, 17 July 2011, and encouraged members to wear the ribbons throughout the month of July. The orange ribbon symbolises unity, respect, understanding and trust — values that establish and sustain racial and religious harmony. During our English services, members also embraced the diversity of Singapore’s multi-ethnic society by reciting the pledge on religious harmony together.

In March 2011, an underwater earthquake occurring off the Pacific coast of Japan’s Tohoku region (Northeast of Tokyo) caused a tsunami that destroyed thousands of homes in the country.

New Creation Church gave US$20,000 towards disaster relief efforts in Japan. Our funds were channelled through Samaritan’s Purse, a non-denominational evangelical Christian organisation that provides spiritual and physical aid to hurting people around the world. Since 1970, Samaritan's Purse has helped meet needs of people who are victims of war, poverty, natural disasters, disease, and famine with the purpose of sharing God's love through His Son, Jesus Christ.

The money will be used to buy essential supplies from local Japanese companies to help the victims of the tsunami. It will also help fund the post-disaster clean-up and rebuilding process which involves removing debris and repairing damaged homes.

Click here to read more about Samaritan’s Purse.

The Zone youths, should know what to expect from church concerts by now, but Hillsong’s God Is Able show on 30 August 2011 still managed to give close to 2,800 concert-goers the blessed goosebumps.

Held over two afternoon sessions at the Rock Auditorium, the rousing concert was helmed by Pastor Reuben Morgan and the Australian Hillsong LIVE team.

“The special stage set-up and praise and worship experience was just like a rock concert!” Sebastian Rodriguez, 26, said. “Best of all, the presence of God was there and we just soaked it up!”

For The Zone executive Tan Yuan Han, the youth concert was simply a divine coincidence.

“We were planning to organise an extended praise and worship session for our youths when Hillsong contacted us,” Yuan Han explained. “They happened to be on their way to Europe and said they would be passing by Singapore. It was a divine opportunity!”

Pastor Daniel Chong also shared a powerful exhortation during the event. Tickets for the concert were given out at The Zone services on a first come, first serve basis.

Saturday, 3 September 2011 marked a special day for more than 900 church members between the ages of eight and 92. They turned up with family, friends and celebratory placards to be baptised in East Coast Park.

“We wanted everyone to have a close encounter with Jesus and to experience and celebrate church life together. We all had fun!” said Deacon Gideon Lim, ministry leader of NCC’s Pastoral Services Department.

Later, youths from The Zone, NCC’s youth ministry, stayed on for a game of Frisbee, captain’s ball, and sandcastle sculpturing. Sun and surf antics aside, everyone who participated in the water baptism went home with candy floss and popcorn.

The pastors involved in the baptism included Pastors Daniel Chong, Joash Siow, Keith Monteiro, Lawrence Lim, KE Mathews and Joseph Purcell.

Smiles broke out as the Chinese Ministry held its first Saturday service at the newly renovated Shine Auditorium (formerly Prince Theatre) on 1 October 2011. Conveniently located at Shaw Tower along Beach Road, Shine Auditorium is close to Suntec City’s amenities, has ample parking and more than 1,600 seats.

“Everyone just felt so at home in our new venue,” said Denise Toh, Senior Executive of the Chinese Department.

Mdm Yip has been attending the Chinese Ministry for over five years and was excited about the new service venue. “I left my house earlier than usual as I wanted to check the place out,” Mdm Yip said. “The auditorium is very beautiful!”

The congregation also partook of the Holy Communion together and waved light sticks around to symbolise a “wave offering” to Jesus for the new venue.

Over two nights on 19 and 20 February 2016, representatives from our church joined thousands at the annual street procession Chingay that was held at the Marina Bay area to celebrate the diverse cultures of Singapore.

Even the downpour on the first night could not dampen the spirit of unity at the parade which was attended by Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Performers were all smiles and gamely donned ponchos over their outfits. President Tony Tan Keng Yam was the Guest-of-Honour at the parade on 20 February 2016.

On both nights, our church's chairman, Deacon Matthew Kang, together with other representatives from Singapore’s Inter-Religious Organisation (IRO) presented a multilingual song which talks about the preciousness of harmonious relationships. Volunteers from our Chinese Ministry were part of the IRO contingent’s tambourine segment and cheerfully waved banners in support of unity among communities in Singapore.

In line with the Chingay theme “Lights of Legacy, Brighter Singapore”, we also expressed our love for Singapore through colourful light bulb-shaped “sky lanterns” that were hand-drawn by members of our various ministries.

The parade will be broadcast on television in 24 territories, and is expected to reach more than 30 million viewers across Asia.

Food rations and angpows brought festive cheer and financial assistance to over 200 low income families and elderly living in the Holland, Ghim Moh, Dover and Tanglin Halt estates.

The Outreach Ministry put God’s love into action by organizing a “Love Thy Neighbour” project on 18 January and 9 February 2012. The team worked closely with Northwest Community Development Council (CDC), Southwest CDC, Fei Yue Community Services and Care Corner Family Service Centre, to identify beneficiaries and bring much-needed aid to the needy in the districts.

On 30 January 2016, volunteers from our church joined in a chapel service for elderly residents of the All Saints Home, a voluntary welfare organisation that provides eldercare services in Yishun.

Some 47 wheelchair-bound residents joined in the service. Our volunteers shared the gospel using the parable of the lost sheep from the Bible and also led praise and worship. Following that, three residents came forward to receive Jesus as their Lord and Saviour. Hallelujah!

After the chapel service, our volunteers visited bedridden residents in their wards, singing festive songs and presenting Mandarin oranges to them to ring in the Chinese New Year. Some 80 caregivers at the home were also invited to a lunch reception where they enjoyed fellowship with our volunteers.

Elaine Pek, our volunteer who led the chapel service, said, “Mdm Lim had given me the cold shoulder when I tried to connect with her before the chapel service. So I was amazed when the pastor at the home told me later that Mdm Lim has severe difficulties hearing and speaking. Yet she clearly said ‘Amen’ at the end of the salvation prayer and everyone heard it. God touched her with His amazing love!” All glory to God!

It was the first time to the zoo for some of these precious elderly folks from Care Corner Senior Activity Centre, Toa Payoh! They enjoyed the tram ride and animal show, as well as lunch, during the outing organised by our volunteers in May 2018.

New Creation Church participated in the Chingay parade for the first time! In the lead-up to the parade, our church transformed a winning entry from a children’s art competition into a resplendent float, complete with a dazzling display of unique costumes. Titled “My Dream Realised”, the float was a highlight of our church’s participation in Chingay 2012.

Held on 3 and 4 February 2012, Chingay 2012 was the 40th anniversary of the annual street and floats parade that showcases cultures from Singapore and around the world. Over 150,000 spectators, including President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, watched the parade live at the Pit Building near the Singapore Flyer. The event was also broadcast to millions of people around the world.

On both nights, our 250-strong contingent staged a colourful and energetic item themed “Dream Realised” choreographed to our own original music! The performers danced their way along the night streets with brightly lit neon balls, and literally made a splash as they entered the 360-metre long waterway. Chingay 2012 culminated in a finale featuring our 80-metre rainbow balloon arch that signifies hope.

As part of the festivities, the People’s Association (PA), the key organiser of Chingay, gave out awards to honour participating groups for outstanding displays and performances.

Our church was presented with three awards for: Best Audience Contingent, Most Popular Float (determined by online voting), and Outstanding Contingent Display (for less than 300 performers)! Deacon Matthew Kang and some of our Chingay Committee members, were on hand at the special Presentation Ceremony hosted by the PA on 28 February 2012, to receive the awards on behalf of our church. We give all glory to Jesus for His goodness and unmerited favour!

With the Chinese New Year just round the corner, we partnered AWWA, a local non-profit organisation, to bring beneficiaries with multiple disabilities such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy and movement disorders, and their caregivers on an outing to experience the festive season at a mall on 30 January 2016.

As it is difficult for this group of beneficiaries to go out, their caregivers often provide round-the-clock care for them at home. Organising an outing for the beneficiaries was not only a treat for them but also gave their caregivers a much-needed break.

During the day out, the group enjoyed festive activities and a performance, visited a supermarket and had lunch together.

Joo Lian, a homemaker who volunteered at the event said that she was filled with compassion for the beneficiaries at first sight as all of them were wheelchair bound and some did not have the ability to communicate. She was glad to befriend a widowed mother who shared her delight at seeing her 18-year-old son having a good time with the group. This mother was also grateful for the opportunity to relax and do some shopping in the supermarket, knowing that her son was well taken care of by our volunteers.

The beneficiaries went home with their hearts full, blessed with fun, food and festive goody bags ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations.

There were high-fives all around as some 80 Indian foreign workers enjoyed a friendly bowling competition, food and fellowship at an outing we organised with a local Telugu-speaking church in May 2018. Six participants also received Christ during a time of sharing!

New Creation Church has donated $50,000 to NTUC’s U Care Fund through a charity golf tournament. The event was organised by NTUC and held on 7 April 2011. The U Care Fund is the charity arm of NTUC which provides assistance to their low-income members and families. These are people who have been hardest hit by the rising cost of living and the Fund has set aside $11.7 million this year to help these households, especially with daily necessities and children’s education.

Deacon Matthew Kang was on hand to receive a token of appreciation during the U Care Charity Dinner on 14 July 2011 at the Grand Hyatt Singapore.

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Latest update on 7 Jan 2016

Father to the fatherless, defender of widows — this is God, whose dwelling is holy.
(Psalm 68:5, NLT)

During the first two weeks of December, our volunteers and their children from the postnatal support group demonstrated God’s love in a practical way by delivering gift packs of daily essentials to a group of widows to their doorsteps. This is the second year of partnership between our church and the local organisation WiCare to bring a glimmer of hope to the widows and to remind them that they are not forgotten by God and the society.

On Saturday, 12 December 2015, our Chinese Ministry servers joined a group of ex-offenders residing in a Christian halfway home at their morning devotion. Pastor Christina Wee was invited to share a short message on God’s grace and pray with the residents.

After the event, our volunteers also helped to deliver gift packs and letters written by the residents to their loved ones.

12 Dec 2015

At around 9.30am on Saturday, 12 December 2015, some 800 care group members and ministry volunteers were out in force to deliver gift packs of essential items to low-income families and the underprivileged elderly in various parts of Singapore.

This marked the second week of our Gift Of Love distribution where more than 5,000 gift packs were given out to bless Singaporeans across society.

Some of our nation’s leaders also joined our volunteers to hand out gift packs to the needy in their respective constituencies.

5 Dec 2015

Christmas is just around the corner and what better way to share God’s love than to bless those in our community during this season of giving!

On Saturday, 5 December 2015, some 750 church members participated in our church’s Gift Of Love community outreach effort. They spread out across Singapore to deliver gift packs of daily necessities such as canned food and supermarket vouchers to underprivileged families.

“We just feel that we want to help,” shared Alawn Koh, a father of two. “And we want to show our children that with their two hands and their hearts, they can help anybody.”

Our pastors and their families also pitched in to help.

Some of Singapore’s leaders also joined us to distribute gift packs to the less fortunate.

More than 2,000 gift packs were given out to the less fortunate from Care Corner, AWWA, Lion Befrienders, NTUC Eldercare, Sarah Seniors Activity Centre and Fei Yue Community Services.

We want to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed to this event and we look forward to another wonderful time of blessing the community as our care group members and ministry servers continue to bring our gifts of love to the underprivileged families and foreign workers over the next two weeks. Stay tuned for more updates!

Senior Pastor Joseph Prince was at Hillsong Conference USA in Los Angeles from 2 to 4 November 2017. Praise the Lord for the many lives that were impacted as he preached the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ.

Salvation has come to a home for the elderly in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Over three days from 17 to 19 April 2018, almost all the residents received Christ as our outreach team shared the good news of Jesus Christ with them and prayed for them. Our volunteers also organised a food carnival and games for the elderly, and spring-cleaned the home!

If you can’t bring the elderly to the kopitiam, bring the kopitiam to them! A group of 69 Outreach servers transformed Peacehaven Nursing Home into an “old school” coffee shop for the residents, complete with kaya toast and hot beverages. Church volunteers invested much effort into the event held on 23 February 2012. They decorated the walls with posters, prepared the kaya bread and tea, and played Mandarin oldies to get the elderly in the nostalgic mood and spirit. Several NCC volunteers even learnt the traditional way of making kopi by brewing coffee through a cotton “sock” filter!

Our Gift Of Love community outreach project has gone global! The newly launched initiative — Gift Of Love GLOBAL (which stands for Giving Little Ones Blessings And Love) — began on 5 December 2015 where Christmas parties were thrown for some 1,750 children, many of whom live in slums and orphanages.

This month-long outreach project was a partnership between our church and local partners in Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines. Its aim was to bring festive cheer to underprivileged children and to share the true meaning of Christmas with them.

Beneficiaries of this project included:
 

• 262 students from Phan Ton and Ban San Saai Schools in Thailand,
• 150 orphans and children in slums in Batam, Indonesia,
• 600 children from Railway, Somrong Meanchey, Baku and House Above Water slums in Cambodia and
• 800 children in slums in the Philippines.

In addition, our church also blessed 1,000 prisoners from Kompong Cham Prison in Cambodia with gift packs of daily necessities and the Gospel of John.

Senior Pastor Joseph Prince was in Houston, Texas on 28 and 29 October 2017 preaching at three services in Lakewood Church, one of the largest churches in the United States led by Senior Pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen.

Over the three sessions, Pastor Prince encouraged all present to believe the Lord for His restoration in their lives, to cast all their cares upon Jesus who loves them, and to rest in His finished work on the cross! During the third session, he also spent time ministering the Lord‘s healing and restoration to the congregation.

More than 50 pastors and leaders learnt biblical principles of provision and healing from Pastor Vegard Oremo at a grace seminar in Kompong Thom, Cambodia, on 25 and 26 April 2018.

Individuals were also touched as Pastor Vegard shared and ministered to them. A pastor of three churches who came looking despondent and ready to give up his ministry, returned home joyful and encouraged to press on.

All glory to Jesus!

Over 50 Care Groups and serving ministries from The Zone participated in A Box Full Of Love — a collaboration between Outreach Ministry and the youth ministry, The Zone. The initiative encouraged youths to “adopt” a child to bless, and for each to prepare a box full of toys, books and small gifts. The love boxes will bless 63 underprivileged children from Gracehaven home and Industrial & Services Co-operative Society Ltd (ISCOS).

“The response was overwhelming. In less than eight days, well before the closing date, all the boxes were snapped up!” said The Zone Executive, I Reen Lim. “Over the weeks, the youths even met up to pack and decorate their gift boxes,” she added.

The Christmas love boxes were later collected and participants prayed over them during The Zone’s Christmas service on 17 December 2011.

“I felt a warm sense of love and unity as we prayed over the boxes,” Guan Mei Ling, a youth server, said. “I am so humbled to be part of this as it’s a tangible way of showing God’s love to others.” The love boxes were later hand delivered by staff from the Outreach Ministry to the home, just in time for Christmas!

Senior Pastor Joseph Prince was one of the keynote speakers at the Holy Spirit Night conference in Stuttgart, Germany on 29 and 30 September 2017. He preached at three sessions, impacting more than 10,000 people there, and many more around the world who watched the sessions via live streaming.

This event was particularly significant as it coincides with the 500th year of the Reformation where the Lord, through Martin Luther, brought back the revelation that “the just shall live by faith” (ref: Romans 1:17) to the Church. It was also the start of Yom Kippur (the Jewish Day of Atonement) when the shofar (ram‘s horn) is blown, trumpeting Christ‘s victory over sin and death. And during one of the sessions, Pastor Prince led the congregation to declare freedom over their lives and lay hold of God‘s promises of Jubilee.

At the event, Pastor Prince had the opportunity to connect with over 600 pastors and leaders and shared leadership principles with them. He also ministered in the Spirit and wrapped up the conference with a powerful sharing on letting God care for us, and encouraged the people to be the Martin Luthers of this generation and to be conduits of God‘s grace to the world.

Watch the sessions online:
 

• Session 1 — https://youtu.be/qBw9MkyMGXI
• Session 2 — https://youtu.be/I6fqUgPbuJw
• Session 3 — https://youtu.be/al9Ya5HFgOY

Watch the highlights of these sessions and testimonies of those who have been touched by the gospel of Jesus Christ!

While he was there, Pastor Prince continued to share the gospel to many more through an interview with GOD TV, an international Christian media network. You can watch the interview online here.

Over three days from 13 to 15 June 2018, Pastor Edwin Lim was in Chiang Rai, Thailand where he conducted a seminar for some 110 pastors and church leaders.

Praise the Lord for the many who came forward to testify of how they had been blessed by the five sharing sessions! The sessions also saw the participants taking copious notes, hungry for the Word. We believe that the Word sown will bear fruit in their churches.

From 29 July to 3 August 2012, 26 volunteers from The Zone (Youth) Ministry were privileged to minister at Chi Hoi Dong Phu Church, located in the small town of Vinh Long in South Vietnam. While most of the 100 young adults participating in the camp were either leaders or core members of various churches in the region, they were unfamiliar with the grace message. But by the end of the camp, they were experiencing the Holy Spirit’s strong presence and raising hands in spontaneous worship.

Testimonies poured in from participants sharing how they were delivered and healed during the camp. Ngoc, a Vietnamese worship leader, was one of the many who experienced Jesus’ loving touch. Since young, Ngoc had suffered from chronic migraine due to a damaged nerve condition. When our volunteers laid hands to pray for her, she felt the pain slowly disappearing and it has not returned since! Not only that, before camp ended, she was among the many who received the Holy Spirit and broke out in tongues.

During ministering sessions, the Lord gave words of knowledge through our volunteers to assure individuals of His unchanging love for them. One participant, Thu Trinh, confided that she felt more confident to come before the Father with a fuller knowledge of Jesus’ complete forgiveness of her sins. Even after the trip, email testimonies declaring His good work kept coming in!

Our volunteers from The Zone also received personal revelations of Jesus from their mission involvement. For volunteer Kevin Raphael, one of his key takeaways from the trip was simply to depend on God’s unforced rhythms of grace in all that he puts his hands to. A full-time staff in a private bank, Kevin used to be anxious when doing client trades. But since his return from the mission trip, he was so filled with God’s peace that his work assignments have become effortless. Jillian Ong, another volunteer, felt Jesus’ undeserved favour acutely when the Lord used her when she was least expecting it, to pray for and be a blessing to two fellow sisters.

In all, our youth ministry camp coordinator, Trinh An Dien is excited about the doors of opportunities arising from this trip. To him, this is just the beginning of more avenues to sow into Vietnam!

Over the course of two weeks in June 2018, Pastor Mark Ng was in China where he imparted leadership principles and expounded on the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ to some 120 pastors and leaders there.

The pastors and leaders are based in various cities in China. We pray that they will shine as light in their cities (ref.: Matthew 5:14–15) and bless many more through their ministries.

Chinese New Year in Singapore is never complete without tossing the prosperity salad, commonly known as yu sheng. On Saturday, 23 February 2013, 56 servers from New Creation Church’s Outreach and Chinese Ministries treated a group of 82 elderly residents from Lion Befrienders, Ghim Moh Seniors Activity Centre (SAC) to a scrumptious eight-course lunch and yu sheng.

Auspicious words and words of blessings were spoken when the yu sheng was tossed to usher in the New Year. The fun factor went up a notch for the elderly as they playfully competed with each other to toss the salad as high as possible. They were also entertained by volunteers from our Chinese Ministry who shared the festive cheer by singing familiar Chinese songs.

One of the beneficiaries, 77-year-old Mdm Jing Xiu Ki, was very touched by the generosity of the church and the volunteers. She explained that it was the first time she has eaten a sea bass and she felt extremely blessed. She later joined Deacon Matthew Kang, our Church Council Chairman and several elderly residents on stage for an impromptu song performance of Little Umbrella.

Many of our volunteers who served at the event felt privileged to be part of this meaningful activity where they could be the hands and feet of Jesus, bringing gifts, laughter and His love to the elderly. 

For Aaron, 31, an usher from Royal Service Ministry, it was his first time volunteering at an event organised by our Outreach ministry. Though he was not fluent in the Chinese language, he chose to take the step of faith, trusting that God would use him to reach out to the elderly. Towards the end of the day, Aaron was pleasantly surprised when an elderly gentleman who did not respond to him during lunch, finally spoke to him and asked for his name.  

“He finally talked to me!” exclaimed Aaron. “When he bade goodbye, I sensed genuine gratefulness in his eyes. I felt so blessed!”

The afternoon ended on a festive note in line with the season’s spirit of giving as our volunteers handed each elderly resident a goody bag containing items such as a table gift, an ang pao and a Polaroid photograph bearing sweet memories of the joyous event .

Our Senior Pastor Joseph Prince was one of the speakers at MegaFest 2017, a major four-day family festival in Dallas, Texas in the United States (US) from 28 June to 1 July 2017.

Founded by Bishop T D Jakes, this festival consists of various conferences, praise and worship, sessions on entrepreneurship, technology, education and healthcare, the International Faith & Family Film Festival, and more. More than 100,000 people from all over the world were expected at the 2017 event.

Pastor Prince ministered at MegaFest’s ManPower conference for men as well as the Woman Thou Art Loosed conference for women.

Watch the highlights of these sessions and testimonies of people whose lives have been transformed by the gospel of Jesus Christ!

Daystar Television Network Programmes

On this trip, Pastor Prince also shared from Psalm 91 and and God‘s promise of protection as a guest on two programmes via Daystar Television Network:

• “Marcus & Joni” was hosted by Marcus and Joni Lamb, and the session was broadcast live via satellite across the US and around the world on 29 June 2017. Click here to watch this video in the Daystar archives.
• “Joni Table Talk” — a talk show hosted by Joni Lamb, will air on 
  (Singapore times) Tuesday, 25 July 2017 at 7pm, and on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 8.30am and 2pm, or 
  (US Central times) Tuesday, 25 July 2017 at 6am and 7.30pm, and on Wednesday, 26 July 2017 at 1am. You can watch it online here.

Gracehaven, is a resident home managed by The Salvation Army of Singapore. It houses a group of 160 children who needed mentoring and guidance during their growing years. In the year 2012, New Creation Church’s Outreach Ministry organised various events to shower God’s love upon this group of precious children.

Amazing Marang Trail: Enjoy Nature God Created

The first outing of the year took place on Saturday, 26 May 2012. A group of 50 servers from our Outreach Ministry brought 30 children from Gracehaven for a walk along Marang Trail. On the trail, named, Nature God Created, the children gathered into groups to explore the nature reserve through a mini Amazing Race that required them to solve puzzles at designated games stations. The children were thrilled and started solving the puzzles feverishly, hoping to be the first to finish the race.

Though the sun was scorching, it did little to wane the enthusiasm of the children. They had lots of fun working together and carrying out tasks assigned by the servers at each game station. Through the activities, the children learnt about mutual respect and to appreciate each other as unique individuals who are part of the glorious body of Christ.

At the end of the day, everyone was treated to a hearty meal of pizza and the servers also took time to pray for the children, thanking God for making them special.

Build Dreams On Solid Rock

In a span of less than two months, servers from our Outreach Ministry geared up again on Saturday, 7 July 2013, to prepare for another trip to Changi Beach with the children from Gracehaven. This time round, they wanted to show these young ones that Christ is the solid rock, on which they can build their dreams and lives.

Before setting off, the servers came together to pray for good weather. Their prayer was answered as the sun shone radiantly over the island throughout the day.

To kick off the day, the children were asked to describe their dream sandcastles. The children shared with much enthusiasm and before long, everyone was busy building their sandcastles.  

During the next part of the programme, the volunteers threw water-filled balloons at the sandcastles, wiping out everything that was built in one fell swoop! Many of the children were crestfallen as they saw all their efforts going down the drain within seconds.

The servers took time to share the heart of the activity with every child. They explained that the “water bombs” represented the bad breaks or trials they may encounter in the pursuit of their dreams while the sand represented the foundation on which they built their dreams: When they built their dreams on a shaky foundation, they would not be able stand strong in the face of challenges. However, if they built their dreams on Christ, the rock of their salvation, the Lord would always be there to help them get back on their feet again to realise their dreams.

The message hit home quickly and the children realised that they were assured of a hope in Christ. Many walked away that day, conscious of God’s love for them, knowing that He who promised is faithful to give them a bright future regardless of the situations they were in.  

Getting To The Heart Of Worship

On Saturday, 8 September 2012, our Outreach Ministry volunteers got together again to organise a Praise and Worship session titled, Heart of Worship. This session was held at Rock (Level 4) and its aim is to help the children understand that worship is an intimate prayer to God and it can be expressed in various creative ways such as, playing an instrument, singing or even dancing.

At the event, the children were delighted to meet other servers from our Worship Ministry. The children got to speak to them personally and share their thoughts on worship.

After the sharing, the children were taught how to create musical instruments from scrap materials. The day ended on a high note with the children playing music to the Lord with their newly-made instruments!

Christmas Party — The Heart Of Christmas

As the year drew to a close, our volunteers planned a Christmas bash specially for the kids on Saturday, 15 December 2012.

Other than celebrating Christmas with the children and giving them presents, our servers wanted to give the children an opportunity to reflect on God’s goodness and thank Him for the blessings He had showered upon them throughout the year.

The Christmas party was attended by 23 children from Gracehaven and a Thanksgiving Room was set up at Rock (Level 4) for them to come and thank Jesus for all the things He had blessed them with. The children also wrote cards of encouragement to remind each other of God’s promises.  

Pastor Lawrence Lim came in to close the session by sharing a powerful message on the heart of Christmas and why Jesus is the reason for the season. After hearing about God giving His precious Son, Jesus, to mankind, the word “gift” took on a whole new meaning for the children.

The last session of the year ended with spontaneous praise and worship overflowing from a heart of gratitude to the Lord. Every child was also given a box packed with little gifts which spoke of a year filled with untold blessings from their heavenly Father.

New Creation Church has donated $50,000 to Singapore Police Force’s Annual Charity Drive on Wednesday, 8 September 2011, and another $35,000 on Friday, 19 October 2011, to ComChest TrueHearts. Both contributions go towards bringing hope and help to the underprivileged in our community through social service programmes.

In recognition of New Creation Church’s contributions in FY2011/2012, Community Chest has accorded our church the Corporate Bronze Award. On behalf of our church, Deacon Matthew Kang received the award at the presentation ceremony held on Wednesday, 26 September 2012, at Marina Mandarin Singapore.

We have been blessed because of God’s unconditional love and redemptive grace in our lives. In turn, we are glad to support a community initiative which aims to help ex-offenders reintegrate into society and be a support for their families.

Since 2008, we have provided sponsorships and donations totaling about $270,000 towards the Yellow Ribbon Project (YRP) and Yellow Ribbon Fund (YRF). They include giving to fundraising initiatives such as the Formation Of The Giant Yellow Ribbon, Yellow Ribbon Prison Run Selfie Challenge, and the Yellow Ribbon Corporate Challenge.

Our church first supported the Yellow Ribbon awareness exhibition, Crossroad, held at Marina Square, which attracted a crowd of 5,000. We also participated in the Wear-A-Yellow Ribbon (WAYR) Activity, where church members were encouraged to wear the yellow ribbons as part of their support for giving inmates and ex-offenders second chances.

In appreciation of this continuous support, we were presented with the Second Chances award from the Community Action For The Rehabilitation Of Ex-Offenders (CARE) Network, a group of major community and government organisations responsible for the rehabilitation of ex-offenders.

Our Chairman, Deacon Matthew Kang, received the award from Mr Amrin Amin, Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry Of Home Affairs at a presentation ceremony on Saturday, 14 November 2015 at the Home Team Festival 2015 held at the Singapore Expo.

Latest update on 31 August 2015

Last week, our church volunteers not only distributed emergency relief packs to some 140 households at Kalar Kyun Village in the Irrawaddy region, they also taught the villagers to use water purification tablets to get clean drinking water.

20 August 2015

Our church has given US$10,000 towards relief efforts in Myanmar, where thousands have been displaced and had their livelihoods affected by widespread flooding across the country.

We are working with local partners to bring medical supplies and essential necessities like rice, canned food, salt, sugar and tents to the flood victims in the affected areas.

Let’s continue to keep the nation and its people in prayer.

We are so privileged that we get to be a part of what the Lord is doing in China! Our Chinese Ministry pastors and leaders were invited to teach at two Bible school programmes in July 2018 to some 250 attendees, mostly local pastors and leaders.

Nearly 200 more pastors, leaders and believers joined in some of the sessions where Pastor Mark Ng shared leadership principles from the Word.

Her child did so well in school that he topped his level, and Waty, a single mum, carried a desire in her heart to reward her son with a special outing. Her prayer was answered on Saturday, 30 March 2013, when Waty and her son participated in a free excursion to S.E.A. Aquarium, the latest attraction at Resorts World Sentosa.

The excursion is part of a support group programme for single mothers by Care Corner Family Service Centre (Queenstown) and organised jointly with New Creation Church’s Outreach Ministry. The support group aims to provide a platform for single mothers to come together to develop their own support networks and be empowered in their role as the main caregiver of their families.

In addition to a tour of the oceanarium, a lunch picnic, polaroid taking sessions and icebreaker games were thoughtfully weaved into the day’s programme so the group of 14 mothers and 22 children could have ample opportunities to bond and spend quality time together.

“I can’t afford an outing like this for my son due to financial constraints, and I’m so grateful and happy that we could join in,” Waty said. For Waty, and other single mothers like her, the excursion also offered a much welcome respite from the daily grind.

“They shared that even if they could afford the entrance fees, meeting other more pressing needs such as daily necessities for their families would take precedence over expenses for family activities,” said Cheah Tse Boon, an executive with Outreach Ministry. “We’re happy that we made their day special. I also found out that one family was so touched by the love of God that they’ve started to attend our church to receive from Him!”

Commonly known as the “Day of Reunion”, the Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most celebrated occasions amongst the Chinese people around the world. Many Chinese would return home to celebrate it with their family, loved ones and friends.

To be a blessing to the Chinese migrant workers in our community, our Chinese Ministry partnered with the Agape Christian Centre (ACC) China Fellowship to sponsor an authentic Chinese buffet and mooncakes during ACC’s annual Mid-Autumn Evangelistic Service on Sunday, 27 September 2015. ACC has a congregation of about 100 construction workers from mainland China and its annual Mid-Autumn Evangelistic Service is a wonderful opportunity for members to invite their co-workers to church.

The 2015 service was attended by 184 migrant workers, including 45 newcomers and 27 new believers. To share the love of Christ with all present, our Chinese Ministry leaders and volunteers fellowshipped with the attendees during the event and gave out mooncake gift bags.

Pastor Prince's Hillsong Conference Sessions Online
 

• 30 June 2015 – Hillsong Conference Sydney (video)
• 3 July 2015 – Hillsong Conference Sydney (video)
• 26 July 2015 – Hillsong Church London (podcast)

Hillsong Conference Sydney

Senior Pastor Joseph Prince shared the gospel of grace to precious people at Hillsong Conference Sydney which was held from 29 June to 3 July 2015. Some 1,800 of our church members were also there at the conference!

During his first session in the evening of 30 June 2015, Pastor Prince encouraged all present to know that they are always righteous in Christ and to continually receive God’s abundant grace. Watch it online at www.daystar.com.

Pastor Prince preached again on 3 July 2015 and he exhorted everyone to grow in grace by always depending on our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Catch the second session here.

Hillsong Conference Europe

At Hillsong Conference Europe in London, Senior Pastor Joseph Prince preached an awesome sermon on Thursday, 23 July 2015, encouraging leaders and believers to lay hold of their righteousness in Christ.

Pastor Prince preached the gospel again on Friday, 24 July 2015, the last day of the conference. On Sunday, 26 July 2015, he continued to minister the Word in London, this time at Dominion Theatre to the congregation of Hillsong Church London. The podcast of this message is now available online here.

Singapore celebrates Racial Harmony Day on 21 July annually, and New Creation Church is glad to play our part to support racial and religious harmony.

On Sunday, 21 July 2013, we recited the Declaration of Religious Harmony as a church at all our English services. We also gave $3,000 towards the Punggol North Racial & Religious Harmony Street Parade Cum Carnival 2013, and hosted a booth there. Into its ninth year, this event promotes neighbourliness, racial and religious harmony and allows residents to be exposed to different ethnic and religious groups.

The Guest-of-Honour for the event, Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM), Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs, Grassroots Adviser to Pasir Ris-Punggol GROs and MP for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC, presented awards in appreciation of sponsors and supporters.

Our booth at the event’s Mini Religious Fair represented the Christian community. Staff and volunteers from The Zone, our youth ministry, shared the ministry’s Community Involvement Projects (CIP) with the residents. Our church not only provides a platform for our youths to give back to local and overseas communities, but also fosters strong family relationships through special parent-child activities. In addition, regular seminars equip our youths with practical skills and encourage them to rise up and grow into the destiny God has laid out for them.

Our youths shared that they were privileged to serve and connect with residents at the booth. For Alicia Fun, who celebrated her birthday that day, the occasion was made all the more meaningful as she was able to share God’s love through practical and tangible means — by distributing free ‘potong’ ice cream to the residents!

Apart from enjoying the icy treat, residents also took the opportunity to find out more about our church. Another volunteer, Jolene Kang, shared, “A lady began asking questions about our youth ministry and was impressed by our CIP efforts. Before she left, she asked how she could get to our Mandarin services! I was touched that God’s love reached out to people even in a fair!”

Alicia added after the event, “I’m so thankful that God placed me in Singapore. We are a blessed nation and I’m filled with a greater desire to show His love beyond our church through our community projects on the ground!”

Latest update on 17 Jun 2015

Pastor Lawrence Lim and Pastor Joash Siow led a team from New Creation Church to Nepal to aid in the distribution of food and essential items to those impacted by the earthquake. On Tuesday, 16 June 2015, they helped to distribute rice, lentils, cooking oil, cooking pots, sugar and mosquito nets to about 100 families in Saku, a village 25km away from Nepal’s capital city of Kathmandu.

17 May 2015

Pastor Raju Sundas of the Lighthouse Foundation and volunteers from his church, Hosanna Church Ministries, have reached another 1,600 people with supplies of rice, noodles and lentils. Many of these volunteers gladly stepped up to help the villagers despite having had their own houses destroyed by the earthquake.

15 May 2015

Our church will be giving another US$5,000 towards the Nepal relief efforts, this time to Magani Church Ministries in Nepal to buy and distribute essential necessities like food, water, blankets and tents for the people affected by the earthquake.

12 May 2015

Church, let's continue to uphold Nepal and its precious people in prayer. Another earthquake of magnitude 7.4 hit Nepal, near Mount Everest. We are reaching out to our partners in Nepal to find out more and assess how we can help.

5 May 2015

Over the weekend, our partner in Nepal continued to distribute food, tents and other relief supplies to some 5,600 people who have lost their homes. To date, they have reached about 10,000 families displaced by the earthquake.

2 May 2015, 8pm

The supplies of tents, rice and lentils distributed by the Lighthouse Foundation will provide shelter and feed some of those whose homes have been destroyed.

2 May 2015, 1pm

Pastor Raju packing food and relief items for the earthquake victims with the volunteers from his church. Dr Raymond helped them during his rest time there. Our initial giving of US$10,000 goes to this work.

1 May 2015

We will be giving S$10,000 to the Singapore Red Cross in aid of the victims of the earthquake. A doctor from our church, Dr Raymond Lim, has also set off for Nepal with the Red Cross medical team from Singapore.

26 & 28 April 2015

The nation of Nepal is a beautiful country of sprawling mountains and remote villages with some 30 million inhabitants. When a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck it on Saturday, 25 April 2015, it destroyed not just buildings but livelihoods and homes, and claimed thousands of lives.

The United Nations estimated on 27 April that 8 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance. The death toll has since risen to over 4,000 and is projected to hit 10,000.

Loving the people of Nepal

To help in the most immediate and practical way, our church is working with a long-time partner to procure and distribute food and essential necessities to the Nepalese.

To this end, we will be giving an initial amount of US$10,000 (about S$13,200) to the Lighthouse Foundation in Nepal, a Nepali state-approved foundation dedicated to feeding programmes, education and healthcare to poor and orphan children.

Since 2010, our church has contributed over S$180,000 to the foundation’s work to rescue abandoned babies and save girls from sexual slavery and abuse. Small girls and young women in parts of Nepal are often tricked and coerced into prostitution. Some are gang-raped and beaten up to make them compliable despite the horrific conditions they endure. Many become pregnant or are afflicted by sexually-transmitted diseases. Without help, these girls have no hope and no future, and may finally die of their sickness.

The foundation works to provide a loving and safe home for these girls and equip them with life skills. Through our giving, we are helping to save these girls from deprivation and exploitation, and create a new life for them.

In 2012, Pastor Lawrence Lim also visited the home and ministered to the girls with prayers of restoration and healing. Click here to read more.

Lifting them up in prayer

Church, let us continue to uphold Nepal and its precious people in prayer. Let us pray that God will strengthen and comfort them, and give the rescue teams wisdom and supernatural insight to save those who need help.

We will continue to work closely with our partners in Nepal to render effective and practical help. More details will be shared in the days ahead.

In September 2015, a medical missions team of 10 volunteers comprising six medically trained professionals partnered with a non-governmental organisation, One-2-One Cambodia, to help the sick and needy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

As part of the ground preparation, our team worked with local volunteers to transport medical supplies to a local church where the free clinic would be available for three days, from 8am to 5pm daily. On the first day, a smooth operation flow was planned out and bulky medical supplies were quickly categorised and divided into smaller packs for easy dispensation.

Between 22 and 24 September 2015, the team not only attended to the medical needs of the villagers who made their way to the free clinic, but also ministered to and shared the gospel with these precious people. In addition, a prayer and healing corner was set up, and praise and worship sessions were available to the villagers. Patients who visited the free clinic received more than just medical treatment, some also received physical healing from the Lord!

A lady who was in pain and walked with the aid of crutches, was able to walk away with no pain after receiving prayers. Another patient who was completely deaf in her left ear testified of hearing a crackling sound in the ear after she was prayed for. She was overjoyed when she started to hear slightly. Our volunteer encouraged her to continue looking to Jesus for the full manifestation of her healing. Another villager with blurred vision in one eye received her sight after hands were laid on her in prayer. Glory to Jesus!

Channat, a young believer and One-2-One Cambodia staff shared, “This mission trip was amazing, I witnessed many wonderful things that the Lord had done over the past three days. I had the opportunity to pray for many sick patients. The Lord demonstrated to us His power and willingness to heal.”

On 25 September 2015, the last day of the mission, a doctor on our volunteer medical team also delivered a lecture for local healthcare students to impart and share practical medical knowledge with them. The team then adjourned to visit children from a school in the slum.

In all, the team reached out to around 700 patients from villages and slums in the vicinity through the sharing of the gospel and providing free basic medical care and medicine.

Our Senior Pastor Joseph Prince ministered in three cities — Houston at Lakewood Church, Dallas and New York City — across America in November 2015.

Through this tour, thousands were reached with the gospel of grace at each session, while millions more were impacted as Pastor Prince shared about Jesus and His unmerited favour on Trinity Broadcasting Network’s (TBN) Praise The Lord programme together with other guests.

All glory to Jesus for the precious lives that are transformed in America and around the world!

Weekend services at Lakewood Church

Located in Houston, Texas, Lakewood Church is led by Pastors Joel and Victoria Osteen, and has the largest congregation in America. There, Pastor Prince preached the gospel of grace at three weekend services on 7 November and 8 November 2015.

You can watch one of the sessions on Trinity Broadcasting Network’s (TBN) Praise The Lord programme here.

Dallas Event

On 15 November 2015, the Grace Revolution Tour continued with a session at American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. The evening began with the New Creation Worship team leading the participants in an anointed time of praise and worship, before Pastor Prince took the stage and preached a powerful message on Jesus being the measure of our righteousness.

During the session, Pastor Prince also ministered to the thousands gathered and prayed Psalm 91 over them. Many were seen waving to testify of God’s healing power in their bodies. Praise the Lord!

Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Special

On 19 November 2015, Pastor Prince along with Carl Lentz, pastor of Hillsong Church New York City, and Rich Wilkerson Jr, lead pastor of Vous Church in downtown Miami, were guests on a TBN special hosted by Matt and Laurie Crouch. They shared about Jesus and His grace during the session, which was broadcast live to TBN’s worldwide audience from New York City.

Click here to watch this video in the iTBN archives now!

New York City Event

The last session of the Grace Revolution Tour was held at Barclays Center in New York City on 21 November 2015.

At this session, the New Creation Worship team led everyone in a powerful time of praise and worship, magnifying the name of Jesus through Christ-centred songs. In his message that night, Pastor Prince pointed people to the cross where God has imputed our sins and encouraged them to look to His finished work for their much-more restoration.

We showed support for racial and religious harmony in Singapore by giving out ice cream and singing songs in different languages at the Punggol North Racial And Religious Harmony Street Parade. Held on Sunday, 15 July 2018, the heartland parade promotes neighbourliness and inter-faith understanding among the residents.

Council member Deacon Matthew Kang also received a token of appreciation on our behalf at the event from the guest of honour, Mr Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for National Security.

Between 20 and 25 September 2015, more than 230 children from Cho Lae School in Chiang Mai, Thailand, experienced the love of Christ through a games carnival, skits, arts and crafts, Bible lessons and worship songs brought by 22 volunteers from our church! 

Most of these children live in nearby villages and some are from very poor families. So in addition to Christ-centred activities for the children in school, the team also visited the homes of the underprivileged students and brought the gospel to them. Through this mission, 70 students and 15 families received Christ.

This was our church’s second mission trip to Cho Lae School. Volunteers from GenRev, our youth ministry for single working adults aged 17 to 29, first visited the school in 2013. A few of the youth volunteers from that first trip returned to serve in the school again. Suleen Law, the team leader of the 2013 mission trip, also led the team this time. 

“Many of them [the children] remembered us from the mission trip two years ago. During the home visits, one of the girls mentioned to the team that she received Christ two years ago when I was there with the GenRev team. I was touched and amazed. We left two years ago, but Jesus is always with them and they are conscious of His presence,” she said.

Pan, a secondary student at Cho Lae School, was deeply touched by some of the classroom activities. “I have learnt a lot from the Bible drama skit stories. My favourite song is ‘Every Move I Make’ and I like all the games we played. I know Jesus loves me, and because God first loved me, I can love everyone.” 

Another 15-year-old student, Poly shared, “I have learnt from the Bible lessons every day. I like the games and everything taught to me. And I know Jesus loves me very much.”

Caryn See, 46, was thankful to be a part of this fruitful mission trip. “There was almost 100 per cent salvation in our upper primary class, and 100 per cent salvation in the six households we visited. Even our driver accepted Christ!”

Senior Pastor Joseph Prince preached the Word of God in Israel at the Grace 2016 Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Israel Tour from 22 February to 2 March 2016.

The Southern Steps

On 24 February 2016, Pastor Prince and New Creation Worship were at the Southern Steps in Jerusalem, where our Lord Jesus taught and where about 3,000 were saved after the apostle Peter preached on the Day of Pentecost, for the first session of the tour hosted by TBN Chairman Matt Crouch and his wife Laurie.

After a time of praise and worship, Pastor Prince ministered in the Spirit and shared about Jesus’ amazing love and grace for us as revealed in the Gospels.

You can watch this session in the iTBN archives here.

Tzemach Beach

The second event of the tour was held on 26 February 2016 at Tzemach Beach by the shores of the Sea of Galilee where Jesus walked 2,000 years ago. Pastor Prince shared about the many miracles that Jesus performed on the Sea of Galilee – He walked on water, calmed the storm and gave the disciples a miracle catch of fish – and preached on the Lord’s deep love for us. He also encouraged us to practise Jesus’ love for us in our daily lives, just as the apostle John did.

You can watch this session in the iTBN archives here.

Caesarea Maritima

The final session of the Grace 2016 Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) Israel tour took place at Caesarea Maritima on 28 February 2016, where the first Gentiles, the centurion Cornelius and his household, were saved (ref: Acts 10).

After a powerful time of praise and worship and ministering, Pastor Prince taught from the high priest's garments about how much God loves us and sees us as righteous in Christ, the great High Priest who is our eternal and perfect representative before God. He encouraged us to see ourselves as beloved, held close to His heart, and to rest in His finished work on the cross.

You can watch this session in the iTBN archives here.

We believe that lives that have been impacted and transformed as the gospel of grace went forth in the land where Jesus walked!

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September 2015 marked our Outreach Ministry’s third mission in Wat Lan Tong School, located some 30km from the city centre in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our team of 25 volunteers embarked on the mission trip on 13 September 2015 and spent four days reaching out to the students, teachers and villagers there.

Through fun Christ-centred lesson plans and activities prepared by our volunteers, more than 150 students got to know Jesus and learnt how much He loves them. At the end of every Bible story, an altar call was given so children who have yet received Christ as their Saviour had an opportunity to respond to Him. On this mission, a total of 82 children received Jesus into their hearts for the first time. Praise God!

Besides going to the school, the volunteers also visited the Khon Muang, a group of indigenous northern Thais, over three days. With help from local translators, they reached out to these underprivileged villagers by sharing the gospel and God’s great love for them in their homes and praying specifically for their needs. Through these home visits, 22 villagers received Jesus for the first time.

Fionn Chua, a 37-year-old volunteer, shared how she had the blessed opportunity to pray for a helpless father of two and witness his salvation.

“His heart was crying for help and he did not know what to do and who to turn to. He could only do some part-time work ever since the accident and he also had to take care of his two boys after his wife left him… When he finally accepted Jesus, I was so happy! I believe that he will be blessed and his family will be in good hands now that he is a son of God. I know that the Lord will also fill up the void in his heart with His abundant love!”

Small acts of kindness go a long way. We thank God that we can be a blessing to the community in Singapore, and show love and care to the less privileged.

Over the last 12 months from August 2017 to July 2018, more than 13,700 precious lives were touched as some 4,000 volunteers went out to be a blessing through our local outreach programmes. Glory to God!

UNDERPRIVILEGED ELDERLY

As they advance in years, many elderly find it difficult to travel alone or even do housekeeping. To remind them that they are cared for and loved, our volunteers organise various outings to places of interest and clean their homes regularly. We also frequently visit senior activity centres and nursing homes, and are glad that many precious friendships have been forged in the process!

LESS PRIVILEGED CHILDREN

Children are a gift from God and they are precious to us! In 2017, we gave out some 300 educational bursary awards to students from low-income families including those with special needs. We also organised fun outings for the children. During the Christmas season for instance, our volunteers brought a group of underprivileged children to pick gifts for themselves and their loved ones.

EX-OFFENDERS

We have also been visiting ex-offenders at halfway homes, sharing with them about the good news of Jesus and God’s unconditional love.

MIGRANT WORKERS

Another group of people whom we have been actively reaching out to are the migrant workers in Singapore. To appreciate them for contributing to Singapore, we bring them out on excursions, and organise sports activities and lunch parties for them. We have also been partnering with a local Telugu-speaking church to share the gospel with them, and at a lunch party in May 2018, nearly 40 souls were won for Jesus! Read more about the event here.

On Friday, 8 November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan swept through the central islands of the Philippines. The super typhoon caused major destruction in the province of Leyte and its capital, Tacloban, was the worst-hit. According to United Nations' estimates, millions of people have been affected and hundreds of thousands have been made homeless.

To help the victims of the typhoon, New Creation Church is working closely with some local churches in the Philippines to bring them much-needed food, water and basic necessities. A total of 13,000 tonnes of goods and medicine have been sent to Catbalogan, Samar on Saturday, 16 November 2013. Another four generators and a utility van have been purchased by our local partners to set up a fully operational relief centre in the affected towns.

New Creation Church has exercised due diligence to ensure that the local churches we are working with are ministries that are bona fide, trustworthy and of integrity.

We have also contributed financially to the Red Cross Haiyan Relief fundraising appeal that the Singapore Red Cross has launched.

Beloveds, as God's covenant people, we believe there is power in our words. Let's continue to pray for the people in the Philippines and declare the Lord's peace, comfort and restoration upon the land.

  
Every day, Jeff Evans and his family of five would gather at their living room to watch Senior Pastor Joseph Prince on his TV broadcast, Destined To Reign. When news of the Power Of Right Believing USA Tour broke, the Evans decided that they would be there to receive from this man of God.

On 6 November 2013, the Evans made their way down to Long Beach Arena, in Los Angeles, California, where they finally got to hear Pastor Prince preach live in person. "Pastor Prince is like family to us," said Jeff, "To see him standing right before our eyes is a tremendous gift from God. My family and I are so excited about the good things that God has in store for our nation and the whole world through the gospel of grace!"

A whopping 60,000 participants turned up to hear the powerful message of right believing preached in the United States from 1 to 13 November 2013. On this tour, Pastor Prince boldly proclaimed the unadulterated gospel of grace to capacity crowds in the states of New Jersey, California and Texas. He also led his audience in a time of Holy Communion, declaring health and wholeness to their bodies.

Rose, a 78-year-old arthritis patient, was among the thousands who attended service at Long Beach Arena. According to her daughter, Sylvia Cardoza, her mother could not sit or stand for long periods of time. However, her mother's legs did not bother her that day and she even did something she has never done before - praising God during the worship and lifting her hands!

Millions more were impacted as Pastor Prince unveiled Jesus as their righteousness on Trinity Broadcasting Network's (TBN) Praise The Lord programme on 30 October. Being America's largest Christian television network, TBN had a global reach of more than millions of homes across America and the world.

To Brenda Kimble-Johnson, who travelled over 1,000km from Atlanta to Dallas, the event was nothing but incredible. "Thank you for coming and bringing the good news of His grace in such a powerful way!" she said.

All glory to Jesus for the lives that have been impacted in America!

We are thankful that we get to give and be a blessing to our community! We gave $30,000 towards support and employment initiatives for low-income and underprivileged residents and families in the North East district of Singapore.

At the North East Community Give Back Golf & Appreciation Dinner 2018 on 31 July 2018, church council member Deacon Matthew Kang received a token from Mr Desmond Choo, Mayor of North East District and Member of Parliament for Tampines Group Representation Constituency.

To celebrate Singapore’s 50 years of independence, our Outreach Ministry organised a special SG50 celebration party for the pioneer generation and underprivileged elderly at a Care Corner Seniors Activity Centre (SAC) in Toa Payoh on 1 August 2015.

At the party, our volunteers got everyone moving with fun games and the Great Singapore Workout (a simple mass aerobic routine). As a practical gesture of love, supermarket gift vouchers were also given out to the elderly. 

In the month of August, we will be reaching out to a total of 1,080 underprivileged elderly to distribute more than $100,000 worth of supermarket gift vouchers to help them with the cost of essential groceries.

In every sense of the word, Senior Pastor Joseph Prince's first live speaking engagement in the United States was a historic event marked clearly by God's favour.

On 29 and 30 October 2011, Pastor Prince unveiled the loveliness and glory of Jesus and His finished work at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. Pastored by Joel Osteen, and his wife, Victoria, Lakewood Church is the largest church in America.

Over 40,000 people attended the three services, with many coming from all over the US, and Canada, some having driven over 18 hours to get to Houston. From California to Minnesota and Florida, from British Columbia to Montreal, thousands came eagerly to hear Pastor preach the message of God's grace in person at this much-awaited event.

Israel Houghton, Grammy-award gospel singer-songwriter, led the people at each service into exuberant, faith-filled worship, and Trinity Broadcasting Network, the world’s largest Christian television network, was onsite to cover the event.

As Pastor Prince preached under a powerful anointing, people who had come feeling condemned and fearful were set free as they simply listened and received the message of no condemnation because of the cross of Christ.

"It was one of the best times I’ve ever had," said Melissa Torgersen, who had flown all the way from Florida. "Thank you, Pastor Prince, you've helped me reach a greater understanding of the Word and develop a deeper relationship with Jesus! I can’t wait for you to come back to the US!"

From 29 July to 1 August 2015, 29 volunteers our church visited Sekolah Esther Aletheia (or Esther School), in Batam, Indonesia to demonstrate the love of God through games, Bible stories and craft activities. 

At the Christian school with 180 students aged between six and 12, our volunteers engaged the students in a time of worship, corporate prayer and games. The team also shared the parable of the lost sheep with the help of props and role-play. This much-loved Bible story was well-received and brought much joy to the students!

This love outreach also extended beyond the school to local homes in its vicinity as well as Sembilang Mayang, a fishing tribe. Accompanied by a local pastor and translator, our volunteers made home visits armed with gift bags and a willing heart to reach out to the families. Besides sharing the gospel, the volunteers also expounded on the significance of the anointing oil, prayed over the villagers and blessed each household with a bottle of anointing oil. 

Ruth, our volunteer, shared how she was profoundly touched by her encounter with a family the team visited. 

“The head of the house was so full of faith that he not only received our prayers, but prayed for all of us too!” Ruth shared. “I was reminded that a man’s true riches lie in his inner man (or heart), rather than his outward circumstances,” said Ruth.

Policarpus, a fisherman from Sembilang Mayang, shared a powerful testimony about the anointing oil. “I was in a motorcycle accident before and hurt my arm,” Policarpus shared. “After applying the anointing oil on my arm, it was completely healed!”

Even with the little that these villagers have, God’s light radiated through their love and laughter — an observation echoed by all the volunteers. Indeed, he who waters, will also be watered himself. (ref: Proverbs 11:25) The labour of love sown by our volunteers during this mission trip has surely given them so much more in return.

In September and October 2017, Pastor Benjamin preached from the Word to over 1,500 people in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. He also connected with pastors and leaders in Europe who have been impacted by Senior Pastor Joseph Prince‘s ministry.

His first stop was New Testament Church IJsselstein on Friday, 22 September 2017 where he met up with over 80 pastors, leaders and influencers from 35 churches in Europe, sharing ways of building Christ-centred churches by drawing from the Word of God as well as the experiences of our church.

On Sunday, 24 September 2017, Pastor Benjamin Lim ministered at DoorBrekers Church, encouraging believers to receive the gift of God‘s righteousness and speak forth the identity they have in Christ. The good news of Jesus Christ reached over 1,500 people at the church‘s various campuses, and many more via online streaming.

Two weeks later, on Saturday, 7 October 2017, Pastor Benjamin visited Five Grace Church in Birmingham, the United Kingdom and shared grace-based principles for church growth over two sessions with over 20 pastors, key leaders and church board members.

Five Grace Church organised a conference on Sunday, 8 October 2017 and Pastor Benjamin was the guest speaker. Besides preaching the gospel over two sessions, he also shared powerful testimonies of people who have been set free from bondages, and encouraged believers to look to Jesus to lead abundant and victorious lives. Praise God for the opportunity to share the gospel in Europe!

From 13 to 18 July 2015, a group of 30 volunteers from our church were in Cambodia to conduct a three-day Bible camp, conduct health education lessons and make home visits.

Our team of volunteers joined local partner One-2-One Cambodia to minister to the children in Bak Trang Primary School, sharing about God's love and sowing seeds of His Word into their hearts. During their time at the school, the volunteers also gave some of the children a hair wash to get rid of the head lice in their hair, and taught the children the importance of good hygiene.

One volunteer recounted his experience at the primary school: "On the first day, we called for a prayer for those children who are not feeling well. Three boys went to the front and mentioned that they have very bad headaches, so I stood in faith with them and proclaimed healing over them. Not long after the prayer, they told me that they were feeling much better! Their headaches had subsided significantly. Praise Jesus!" 

In Sihanoukville on 16 July, our volunteers visited a community of poor factory workers and farmers, and blessed each of the 100 children with a lunchbox containing rice, meat and vegetables. Each child was delighted to receive a pair of new shoes. There, the team also brought joy and fun to the little ones by teaching them some Christian songs.

The following day, our team visited a dumpsite to distribute 100 packets of food and 100 pairs of shoes to the slum children there. The volunteers shared with them the story from the Bible about how Jesus fed the 5,000. Many of the children received Jesus into their hearts that day. 

In addition, the NCC team visited homes in two slums in Phnom Penh. They brought along apples and dental hygiene kits for the children as a way of encouraging them to brush their teeth.

Over the six days, a total of 641 precious souls were led to Christ. All glory to God!

It‘s truly a privilege to be part of what the Lord is doing in China! Pastor Mark Ng from our Chinese Ministry was there from 4 to 15 September 2017, where he unveiled the person of Jesus through the Word to some 420 pastors and leaders in about 20 sessions.

Pastor Mark also preached the gospel and the finished work of Christ at a church service attended by about 350 people.

Also on this trip were Pastor Louis Teng and a team from our church, who shared biblical principles and practical techniques on worship across 20 sessions with volunteers serving in worship teams.

On 18 April 2015, New Creation Church brought 16 beneficiaries from Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH). The purpose of the outreach was to be a blessing to the community as well as to give SAVH members an opportunity to interact with one another in an outdoor environment. Without an acute sense of sight, the beneficiaries relied on other senses to “see” the world around them. Volunteers from our Outreach Ministry came to serve with their hearts, hands and essentially, their eyes. 

Right from the start of the event, our volunteers paired up with the beneficiaries and their presence were always felt. Hand holding and the verbal communication were means to help them bond and create trust within the group. 

Then they played games, experienced a tour that covered both land and sea on a remodeled amphibious war craft and got to know each other over lunch. During the tour, the tour guide’s lively running commentary of the sites was not only entertaining, but also gave the participants a better understanding and appreciation of Singapore’s history.

The experience taught precious lessons. “One of us greeted a beneficiary, Mdm Sim, with a common phrase, “It’s so nice to see you here today,” but Mdm Sim replied that she can’t see,” shared Serene Seng. 

Mdm Sim also did not like to have her photos taken as she could not view the pictures. The short exchanges gave Serene a stark realisation that sight is often taken for granted. 

“I decided to put my phone away and stop taking photographs out of respect for her,” related Serene. But as the day progressed, Serene noticed a marked difference in Mdm Sim’s countenance.

“She was reserved compared to the others, but warmed up as we chatted. By the time I drove her home, she had started chatting with my other passenger, and even teased her about enjoying the tour so much she didn't want to leave!”

Wrapping up the day, our volunteers presented a talking clock gift to the beneficiaries to help them tell the time easily. The gift was not only practical, but also timely.

“God's timing is perfect. Mdm Sim told me that her clock had just stopped working a few days ago. It was as if He had prepared the gift just for her!” Serene noted.

For volunteer Caleb Yong, the event could be summed up as a love gift from the Lord. “It is not about what we can do, but God is able to gift-wrap all that we do with the love of Jesus. I feel blessed to be a blessing.”

On 4 July 2015, our Outreach team visited a group of 25 elderly residents at Bright Hill Evergreen home for the first time. Some 80 per cent of the residents at the voluntary welfare home are destitute. 

Together with a team leader, our volunteers led the elderly in an exciting session of games with a sumptuous dim sum spread for tea break.

Mdm Seh, one of the elderly residents, was pleasantly surprised to meet someone who could converse in her Chinese dialect, and was grateful to the volunteer for patiently teaching her bingo in a language she is comfortable in.

In addition to bingo, the elderly also participated in a game called “Walking Down Memory Lane”, which had them guessing old photos of Singapore while sharing their past experiences. “We were richly blessed by their sharing of the past during the game,” said Jasmine Lim, a volunteer.

Besides the fun games, the dim sum brought by the volunteers was a well-received treat for the elderly as some of them had not had dim sum for 30 years!

Even though it was a short session, every resident left smiling as our volunteers wheeled them back to their rooms. Germaine, one of the volunteers, believed that the seed of God’s love were sowed into their hearts during the event.

Between 8 and 10 September 2017, Pastor Henry Yeo was the guest speaker at Excel Point Community Church (EPCC) in Penang, Malaysia, where he spoke at two healing sessions and at their Sunday morning service.

On Saturday morning, 9 September 2017, Pastor Henry ministered at a healing seminar to some 100 people at EPCC and also answered questions during a Q&A session. That evening, Pastor Henry ministered at another healing session attended by some 150 people. He expounded on the truths from the Bible and encouraged them to depend on the Lord for their breakthrough. At the end of the session, Pastor Henry prayed for those who needed God‘s healing.

In the last session on Sunday, 10 September 2017, Pastor Henry shared the gospel and ministered to the congregation at EPCC‘s morning service.

Imagine life without household essentials, how uncomfortable it would be. Our Outreach team visited 68 needy households on 11 July and 25 July 2015 to deliver gift vouchers for essential household appliances and furniture. 

To reach out to disadvantaged families, the team had partnered with Care Corner Family Service Corner in Queenstown. During the home visits, our volunteers also took time to encourage or minister to individuals who requested to be prayed for.

At one home, a widow was visibly touched to receive the gift voucher and shared how she much she loved the Gift Of Love (a gift pack containing essentials like soaps, toothbrushes and milk) she had received from our church last year. 

At another flat, a team of volunteers not only helped an elderly man with walking difficulties source for the household appliances he needed, but also took the initiative to clean up his bedroom so he can enjoy a good night's sleep!

About 400 pastors and leaders in China were impacted during Pastor Mark Ng’s trip there from 11 to 21 July 2017. Many were moved by how Pastor Mark brought out the loveliness of the person of Jesus in real and relevant ways through his sharing.

On Sunday, 16 July 2017, he also preached to more than 800 believers at a church service that was broadcast online.

In total, Pastor Mark spoke at some 20 sessions, touching on topics such as how true transformation and repentance come from knowing the goodness of God (ref: Romans 2:4).

Domestic helpers are an integral part of our society today. In the homes that domestic helpers work in, they take on household chores and care for young children or the elderly. On 20 June 2015, we organised a Banquet of Honour at The Star Vista to appreciate and celebrate Filipino domestic helpers in Singapore.

After Pastor Lawrence Lim had welcomed the participants and said grace over the meal, 199 Filipino participants were treated to delicious Pinoy cuisine and a fun-filled programme packed with exciting games and performances. Our volunteers also brought out birthday cakes to surprise four participants whose birthday fell on that day.

Filipino Grace Limauco said with appreciation, “My friends and I enjoyed it to the fullest! I also thank my employer for signing me up for it. I am truly blessed to be surrounded by people with a generous heart. All I can say is, ‘Thank you so much’ for making this a memorable day! God bless you all!”

Many of the volunteers felt privileged to be part of this meaningful occasion where they could bring joy, laughter and Daddy God’s love to the domestic helpers. 

Said Serene Mai, 30, who went about to capture polaroid pictures for the participants. “They were so excited to have their pictures taken! There were gifts, prizes and décor which they could bring home too. I feel so blessed to see them blessed.”

In May 2017, we had the privilege to connect with more than 200 Chinese-speaking pastors and leaders from China, Taiwan and Malaysia who had been impacted by Senior Pastor Joseph Prince‘s ministry.

Over five days, they were introduced to various teams in church and learnt how grace-based principles are applied in our ministries. Pastor Prince also met up with them in person to minister to them and answer their questions from the Bible.

At the tail end of the trip, the pastors and leaders visited our English and Mandarin services where they had a glimpse of what goes on at our Sunday services. And with the help of special headsets at our English service, they were able to overcome the language barrier as they tuned into a Mandarin translation of the service.

From 10 to 13 June 2015, 31 volunteers in our Outreach Ministry stayed in Batam, Indonesia, conducting daily Bible lessons, games and spending quality time with 180 students in Sehati School, ministering to them and their teachers.

Working with three local pastors, our team of volunteers scheduled 20 home visits to families who live in the squatters and slums of Batam. They also took time to encourage and strengthen the faith of believers in the village.

“During one of the home visits, we met a family going through a dire financial situation,” shared Jeremy, recalling a home visit his team made. “They were very worried and fearful, and cried as they spoke.”

The head of the house had quit his job six months earlier to start a pig farm but business had been bad, and he could not bring home enough money to feed his wife and four daughters.

“We shared with them about the anointing oil, and asked if they would like to receive the gift of tongues. They said yes! The whole family received the gift! We also asked the father to pray over the family as the head of the household, which he did, in Bahasa Indonesia. The family was very touched and everyone was crying uncontrollably. We really felt the presence of God in that house,” Jeremy said.

The team also reached out to 30 orphans from two orphanages, inviting them out for a day of fun. Starting in the morning with games and Bible action songs, they entertained the children with a humorous skit of the prodigal son parable, and taught them about the love and acceptance of God the Father.

The children were also taken out for lunch at a fast-food restaurant and were delightedly surprised with the opportunity to buy an item of their choosing from the mall.

Some 100 Chinese-speaking pastors and leaders, and another 50 believers were impacted by the gospel of grace preached by Pastor Mark Ng over three sharing sessions from 18 to 20 April 2017 in Taiwan.

Besides teaching on how right believing produces right living, Pastor Mark also encouraged the pastors and leaders to cultivate an intimate relationship with Jesus, and see Him touch others through them.

7 June 2015

Pastor Lawrence Lim led the congregation to pray for the victims of the earthquake in Sabah, Malaysia at our Sunday services on 7 June 2015. Together, we also prayed for the Lord’s strength and comfort to be upon the families and loved ones of those affected.

6 June 2015

Our thoughts and prayers go out to those affected by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake in Sabah, Malaysia, including the teachers and students from Tanjong Katong Primary School who are at Mount Kinabalu and are still out of contact.

The earthquake hit the state of Sabah on Borneo island on Friday, 5 June 2015. Striking near the popular tourist destination Mount Kinabalu, the earthquake triggered dangerous landslides and falling boulders, trapping and injuring climbers.

Let’s continue to pray for God’s protection to be upon all who are still missing and for their safe return. May the Lord’s peace and comfort also guard the hearts of their families.

Both Pastor Lawrence Lim and Pastor K E Mathews were in Tamil Nadu, India, between 22 and 24 March 2017 for a three-day seminar.

They ministered the Word and shared leadership principles with hundreds of pastors and leaders at the seminar and also helmed a Q&A session.

Many were also led to Christ at an outreach event sponsored by our church, to provide food for the poor and educational resources for their children.

14 June 2015

During our services today, Pastor Lawrence Lim led the congregation in prayer for South Korea, the Middle East, and all affected by the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers). He also declared the Lord’s protection over the congregation (ref: Psalm 91:9–10) and for a swift end to the Mers outbreak.

5 June 2015

Church, let us uphold South Korea and its precious people in prayer. We speak God’s healing over the individuals who are being treated for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers) and His protection over their loved ones and the people around them. We also pray that the Lord will put an end to the Mers outbreak.

Beloveds, let’s continue to rely on the Lord for protection in these times. Let us say of the Lord that He is our refuge and fortress, and put our trust in Him. (ref: Psalm 91:2)

Between 6 and 10 February 2017, Pastor Mark Ng and Pastor Louis Teng led a team from our church to conduct a training session in China for some 400 pastors, church leaders and volunteers.

Among the things shared, Pastor Mark taught on grace-based leadership principles and encouraged them from the Word while Pastor Louis shared on the heart of worship. There were also breakout sessions covering various topics.

Kidney failure is a chronic condition that requires lifelong dialysis. Often, the treatments would leave patients physically and financially depleted. 

To help ease the financial burden on needy kidney patients, our church donated $50,000 to the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) to provide dialysis treatment and rehabilitative care to them. 

On 4 June 2015, our council chairman Deacon Matthew Kang was present at NKF’s fundraising concert to receive an appreciation plaque from Mr Koh Poh Tiong, Chairman of NKF.

How blessed, that we get to share the gospel of grace with churches around the world! Pastor Lawrence Lim was invited to speak at a grace conference in Brisbane, Australia, from 5 to 7 February 2017.

He shared fundamental truths on grace over three evening sessions at the Grace To Run Your Race conference, with about 180 people in attendance.

Pastor Lawrence also preached at two Sunday services at Rhema Family Church, which organised the conference.

Eighty students at Woodlands Garden School, a MINDS Special Education School that serves the learning needs of children with intellectual disabilities, were joyfully blessed by Project Happy Feet. 

On 26 May 2015, three members from our Outreach team visited the school and gave each child a brand new pair of school shoes and socks for the new semester. Besides handing the gifts to the children personally, they also helped the pupils try on their new shoes to ensure proper fitting. The children were pleasantly surprised and delighted by the gifts of love on a school day.

These students, who are on the Financial Assistance Scheme, come from underprivileged families that are unable to suitably care for children with special needs. Project Happy Feet was particularly pivotal in showing care and love for the children as many of them had never received a gift or present!

Cheah Tse Boon, 35, a full-time staff in our Outreach Ministry, felt honoured and happy to be part of this meaningful project. “It’s really a very practical way to meet their needs. I hope this initiative will continue for many years to come and we can extend this to more MINDS schools.”

On 21 May 2016, Pastor Lawrence Lim was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as one of the speakers at Jesus Festival Malaysia.

During a conference session, Pastor Lawrence shared a faith-building message centered on Jesus’ finished work, and ministered to over 400 participants including 50 pastors.

It is always our honour to share about God’s unmerited favour with pastors and leaders of various churches and ministries.

From 25 May to 28 May 2015, Pastor Lawrence Lim was the main speaker at the International Convention Of Faith Ministries’ (ICFM) 31st annual convention, Accessing Grace Through Faith, held in Brisbane, Australia. Preaching to an audience of more than 150 pastors and ministers over eight sessions, he shared about understanding the gospel through the eyes of grace, and the relation between the forgiveness of sins and healing, among other messages.

Pastor Lawrence also had the opportunity to pray for those who were trusting God for healing in their bodies. And in the last session, he prayed for pastors and ministers who responded to the call to preach the gospel of grace. For many who were there, it was four days of great revelation and impartation.

Pastor Lawrence Lim was a speaker at the Jesus Festival held between 18 and 19 March 2016 in Manila, the Philippines. During the event which was attended by some 1,500 participants including 70 pastors from 59 churches, he shared a powerful message on how the cross was a deliberate choice Christ made to save us.

On 20 March 2016, Pastor Lawrence continued to exalt the name of Jesus in Manila by preaching at two Sunday services to the congregation at New Life The Fort church. The following day, he also visited a slum in the city’s Tondo district where he spent time with the families there, prayed with them and distributed gift packs of rice and other daily essentials.

Thirty-five underprivileged seniors from the NTUC Silver ACE centre in Lengkok Bahru were treated to an amphibious day out to take in several of Singapore’s most iconic landmarks on 23 May 2015. It was a trip to honour our pioneers, and to let them know that, as a church, we are committed to helping the elderly and the less fortunate among us.

Over 20 volunteers from the Outreach Ministry were on hand to look after, interact and show God’s love to the seniors during the land-water tour on a remodeled “boat-vehicle” that was once used during the Vietnam War.

The hour-long tour took the group past the Singapore Flyer, Marina Bay Sands and the Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, among others. Though excited about the outing, Mdm Toh Sim Tiang, was nervous as the “boat-vehicle” splashed into the Kallang River. She gripped volunteer Angeline Kuah’s arm as they made the plunge, and was happy to hold on to Angeline throughout the ride.

Outreach Ministry volunteer Shona Ong shared that her beneficiary enjoyed the tour because it “gave her an opportunity to connect with her friends.” 

After the tour, the 35 beneficiaries were taken to a fast food restaurant - which in itself is different from the Asian-style meals they are used to at home. They were also presented with goodie bags filled with healthy snacks and medicinal ointments and given “Hei” printed cap as a souvenir. 

“Hei”, or grace in Hebrew, represents what New Creation Church is all about. It is by grace that we are saved, but it’s also by grace that we are called to serve our community, to bring joy and be a blessing to those around us.

Pastor Lawrence Lim was invited to be one of the key speakers at Jesus Festival Malaysia 2015 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on 23 May 2015. 

Speaking to a crowd of about 470, over 60 of whom are pastors and church leaders, Pastor Lawrence shared from the story of Peter’s denial of Jesus and showed how the Lord’s love for us endures beyond our human failings. It was a time of refreshing both in the Word and in the Lord’s presence.

Pastor Benjamin Lim was in Japan on 11 November 2015 to preach the gospel of grace at a midweek service in Lifehouse Tokyo.

He encouraged more than 180 young adults present with a message themed “Glory From The Land Of The Rising Sun”. He shared that they will be transformed from glory to glory when they behold Jesus. At the end of the service, seven accepted Christ as their Lord and Saviour. Glory to Jesus!

As a church, it is our privilege to be a messenger of the gospel of grace to those in Singapore and beyond our shores. From 22 to 24 May 2015, Pastor Benjamin Lim was a guest speaker at Excel Point Community Church (EPCC) in Penang, Malaysia. 

Pastor Benjamin preached to more than 300 people over four sessions, starting with the Grace Revolution Conference organised by EPCC on 22 May. He kicked off the session by sharing that we will produce good works in our lives when we believe that we are righteous by faith.

Of the four services, one was a leadership training session with about 75 church leaders and staff, where Pastor Benjamin took the time to share key principles in grace-based leadership.

25 September 2015
The gospel is going forth into the nations. Pastor Lawrence Lim was at a grace conference in Bhutan this week ministering the Word and Holy Communion to 70 pastors and leaders, as well as some 180 believers.

In a powerful ending note, Senior Pastor Joseph Prince was the closing keynote speaker at the Hillsong Conference Europe 2011, held at the O2 Arena in London.

Over two Spirit-filled sessions from 21 to 23 July, he shared the message of grace with thousands of church leaders and ministry volunteers from all over the world.

For Chanel Leong, a Senior Video Editor in the Video and Sound Department at New Creation Church, the experience of witnessing such hunger for Jesus was unforgettable.

“During Pastor Prince’s session, there were so many people wanting to come into the venue that they made an appeal for people to give up reserved seats,” she said. “Even then, many had to be turned away due to space constraints.”

Pastor Prince closed the conference on the last day with a message unveiling the beauty of our loving Saviour. As he spoke, a powerful anointing and overwhelming presence of God filled the theatre.

“People refused to leave, and continued singing praises to God, long after the worship team had left the stage!” Chanel said. “It was an emotional experience for me, it was my first time standing among so many people singing in one accord, to the Lord, without music.”

From 20 to 23 May 2015, servers from our Logistics and Transport Ministry were in Batam, Indonesia, sharing the love of Jesus with the children at HeRose School. 

Upon arriving, the team of 28 servers immediately set themselves to task, painting the exterior and interior of three classrooms, and installing new whiteboards and wall-mounted fans for five other classrooms. These works continued over the next two days with a dedicated group of painters, while the remaining team members focused on planning and conducting interactive Bible lessons for the school children. 

Using games, handicrafts, vivid storytelling and action songs, they taught the children about the love of Christ, and how they could seek and draw strength from Jesus. The children experienced God’s love, and took back with them mementos like photos and framed Bible verses. 

The team also prepared stationery gift packs and new slippers for the children, and special food packages that included household staples like cooking oil, sugar, milk powder and biscuits for needy families. 

Some members of the team, along with a local pastor and translator, then took time to visit eight homes, blessing the families there with the food packages and praying with them.

Between 21 and 31 August 2015, Pastor Mark Ng and our Chinese Ministry volunteers were in China to bring a touch of God’s love to the people.

There, they trekked through hilly terrain in remote areas to visit the rural orphans our church is sponsoring. Many of the children live with their grandparents and the team also took time to minister to the elderly.

At a local church service on Sunday, Pastor Mark unveiled God’s love and shared about Jesus’ willingness to bless and heal His children. Some 20 precious people received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Saviour on that day. Praise the Lord!

Pastor Mark also spent five days with some 50 pastors and leaders at a training seminar. Besides imparting grace-based leadership principles, he also encouraged the attendees to be rooted in Christ’s love and to experience His unceasing fruitfulness in all that they do.

Mothers are truly one of the most important people in our lives. To celebrate and appreciate mums on Mother’s Day, volunteers from our Outreach Ministry reached out to single mothers and their children on 9 May 2015. 

The event began with an ice-breaking session in which our volunteers and 20 beneficiaries formed teams and played a game together. Activities planned for the day also included a cosy lunch fellowship and a hands-on brownies-making workshop.

Another programme highlight was the apron designing competition where the children were encouraged to design a unique apron for their mothers. The children lovingly drew beautiful motifs like hearts and butterflies to show love and appreciation for their mummies. 

While simple joys like spending time and eating out with family members may be the norm for many families, these bonding sessions are especially precious for the single mothers and their children. 

“It was touching to see how much the children enjoyed spending time out with their mum who’s usually working,” said church member Jane Koh, who was volunteering at an Outreach event for the first time.

Pastor Mark Ng, our Chinese Ministry pastor, was in Taiwan from 13 to 16 August 2015. On this mission, he shared about the finished work of Christ and grace-based leadership principles over a lunch fellowship with a group of senior pastors, church leaders and believers.

Pastor Mark was also the speaker at two night meetings. During the meetings, he showed from the Bible that believers are blessed because we have been forgiven, justified and made righteous in Christ. Some 90 precious people there, including ex-offenders and ex-gang members, were touched by Jesus’ amazing love for them.

On 9 May 2015, our Outreach Ministry partnered Club Rainbow to bless children aged nine to 12 with chronic and life-threatening illnesses by bringing them and their families — a total of 42 beneficiaries — on an outing to Alive Museum, an illusionary and 3D art attraction. 

Club Rainbow is a local charity that extends help to chronically-ill kids and their families. Many of the children require frequent visits to hospitals for treatment, complicated therapy and long-term medication. Some of them are also afflicted with physical disabilities that made outdoor activities challenging. As such, these kids and their caregivers also have a pressing need for emotional and social support. By organising a special outing for the children and their families, our Outreach team hoped to bring cheer and joy to them.

Other than helping children with disabilities around, volunteers who were armed with Polaroid cameras also snapped pictures and gave out instant snapshots to the families while they enjoyed a fun time together. 

Volunteer Melissa Su, 32, shared that the outing provided a much-needed break for the family she was tagged to. Due to her illness, the younger daughter in the family was prone to temper tantrums because she was unable to express herself in other ways. To avoid unwanted stares and attention, the family hardly went out together.

Amazingly, this young child who was unwilling to walk or participate initially, enjoyed the outing so much that she got off her stroller and danced happily in a 3D mirror room at the museum. At the end of the outing, she even responded with affectionate hugs and kisses as she presented a lovely flower to her mum. 

Precious moments like this made the excursion a truly rewarding experience for our volunteers!

Between 16 and 20 July 2015, Pastor Mark Ng, our Chinese Ministry pastor, was in Kuching, the capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, to minister to 240 pastors, leaders and believers at an annual grace seminar.

Themed “Love Is Willing”, this year’s seminar comprised 11 sessions led by Pastor Mark, and is centered on unveiling Jesus as the grace gift from our loving heavenly Father. Last year’s seminar, also helmed by Pastor Mark, was so impactful that a group of 30 from Doha, Qatar flew in to join the seminar this year.

In the span of one year, High Priest Church, the host of the seminar, has also seen the fruits of grace in its ministry. Inspired by the grace teachings Pastor Mark imparted at the seminar in 2014, the children’s ministry pastor of the church developed and launched a grace-based curriculum for the kids.

Nine-year-old Kenneth Voon is a testament to the success of this grace-based programme in High Priest Church. Born with a cleft lip (a congenital split in the upper lip), Kenneth had speech problems and difficulties socialising with other children when he first came to church about a year ago.

Ever since his immersion in the new curriculum, Kenneth has improved by leaps and bounds. Today, he not only speaks confidently, he has also made marked improvements in his studies, coming in first in his cohort when he used to be the last. Kenneth also delights in God’s Word and enjoys memorising Bible verses. Because of Kenneth’s transformation, his 28-year-old mum is also learning about the Bible through him!

On 19 July 2015, Pastor Mark also ministered and preached to a congregation of 300 at a Sunday service in High Priest Church, leading four new believers to Christ.

Praise the Lord for all the precious lives that have been transformed by His grace!

As part of our ongoing efforts to help the less privileged in society, we donated $25,000 to the North East Development Council for the North East School Meal Fund and the North East Level Up Fund. The funds provide children from low-income families with pocket money for meals in school as well as subsidies of up to 90 per cent for group tuition.

On 7 May 2015, the chairman of our church council, Deacon Matthew Kang, represented the church at an appreciation dinner organised by the North East Community Development Council.

What a joy to celebrate Chinese New Year in Singapore, and share the festive cheer with everyone!

On Sunday, 27 January 2019, more than 900 elderly residents received ang paos (traditional red packets with money) from our church at a multiracial dinner event in Boon Lay.

From 4 to 9 May, Pastor Vegard A Oremo led a team of 31 from our single working adults youth group GenRev on a mission trip to the Kompong Thom Province in Cambodia.

Working closely with local partner One-2-One Cambodia, the team visited Komru Primary School to provide basic health education and to conduct Bible classes for the school children. Separately, they also conducted a Bible camp for children in a nearby village.

Beyond the classroom, the team made house visits to bless villagers with basic food supplies, and took the opportunity to share the gospel with the locals and to pray for them. In addition, they reached out to those living in slums. In total, 786 received Jesus as their Lord and Saviour.

Pastor Vegard also conducted a seminar with 36 local pastors and leaders where he shared about their right standing in Christ. It was a powerful and anointed session where key truths were imparted.

During their time there, the team ran into a man who was treated by Dr Raymond Lim from our medical mission trip to Kompong Thom in May 2014. At that time, he had an almost-severed thumb from a work accident and was told by the local hospital to either amputate the thumb or leave it to heal on its own. Refusing amputation, the man left the thumb untreated until he chanced upon our free clinic and Dr Raymond helped to stitch up the wound for him. A year later, he shares with the GenRev team that his hand is now fully healed!

It was a time of sweet fellowship and snacks together with the elderly.

On Saturday, 25 May 2019, our volunteers da pao-ed (packed) kueh and kopi (local pastries and coffee) for some 30 elderly at NTUC SilverACE (Bukit Merah) to enjoy the treats with their fellow residents. There was also a birthday cake to celebrate the May “babies” in the group.

Between 18 and 30 April 2015, Pastor Mark Ng, our Chinese Ministry pastor, was in China to conduct leadership training for pastors. A total of 20 sessions were held and 40 pastors were impacted through the training.

In addition, he was a guest speaker at a church service on Sunday, 26 April 2015 where he shared the gospel of grace with 1,500 churchgoers.

On this trip, Pastor Mark and our volunteers also visited more than 50 underprivileged families to encourage and minister to them. Many of the children in these families have lost one or both their parents to diseases, accidents or disasters. Our church will be reaching out to these families to help with the cost of the children’s education and meals.