Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

Christmas with a difference
Praise the Lord for GMC brothers and sisters are able to identify at least 7 poor families for us to bless them with hampers. We need to visit them and sing carols and pass them the presents. This year, this is Christmas with a difference. Let us pray that as all Methodist churches start to do this ministry, it will become a movement. Also, we need to pray that those whom Methodist churches visited, they will come to know Jesus and be saved.

Jakarta Trip
My trip to Jakarta (14th to 18th Dec) is full of learning and great reflection. Indonesia is made up of over 200 million population. It is the largest muslim country in the world. Christian population is estimated to be 20%. There are 5% Chinese. There are hundreds of tribal groups. The Batak tribal group has been exposed to the gospel for 130 years. Lots of Methodist churches (more than 160) are made up of Batak Christians run by Batak pastors. They are using Indonesian language to worship God. It is a language quite similar to our Malay language. This really inspires me to further work on our BM ministry.


I find that Batak peoples have similar cultural and social problems as the indigenous people of Sarawak. However, may be because of a longer period of evangelization and christian nurture, Batak Christians are now more matured.

Bishop Amat (one of the 2 bishops of the Methodist Church) is heading a big General Conference of over 160 churches with 5 district superintendants and about 150 pastors. He shared with us the urgent need for us to send mandarin speaking pastors and missionaries to Indonesia. Now, they can conduct services in Mandarin and there is great vacuum that need to be filled. There are lots of Chinese but they face great shortage of mandarin speaking manpower!


We (Rev Dr Wong Kee Sing, the chairman of Sarawak Indigenous People Ministry; Brother John Ling, the SCAC missions board member and Board of Finance Chairman) also visited the Wesley Institute. It is actually a theological college with over 100 indigenous students. Lots of Korean missionaries and local indigenous lecturers working side by side to make disciples of all nations. I have to see the same picture in the Methodist Theological School in the near future. I hope in my life time, I will see that Chinese and indigenous people will be working side by side to run the BM theological department with one hundred students.

We visited a 3 language church (English, Tiong Hua and Indonesian), Immanuel. She is 40 years old but managed to plant over 20 big and small churches. Her congregation is about a few hundred persons. It started with one miracle. Dr Chiw, who is missions chairman of the church shared this very touching story. His sister who is now over 60 years old experienced miraculous healing from an unknown sickness which doctors and bomohs could not do anything when she was small. His cousin who was a christian just laid hand on her and prayed for healing. Then she dreamt of a while dressed person to come and heal her. She was healed and the whole family turned to Christ. This family served as the pioneering family of Immanuel Methodist. The church starts to develop from this family. What is interesting is that the sister acquired some kind of gift of prophecy. She was able to foretell future events. Family was tempted to ask her for 4 digits. She scolded them for the request and emphasized that Jesus would not give 4 digits! This testimony touched me very much and it inspires me to preach and present Jesus and live to be like Jesus.

May I bless all the readers with a very powerful and personal Christmas in Christ.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law Hui Seng of Miri, Grace Methodist Church
24th December, 2009.

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

This is the most exciting month for me as the hard work put in by the Board of Evangelism, SCAC, Bintulu and Miri Methodist churches have yielded results. First and foremost, in this month of December, we have sent in 3 missionaries to Ulu Belaga to make disciples among the Penan children in the areas of education. They are sisters Wong Hie Ching, Mandy Wong and Ling Fang Fang. Next January, we will see sister Ting Sung Ngo (a retired primary school principal) to go in as full time missionary. These are all called by God to be there.

If not lots of pastors, brothers and sister who sacrificed as taught by Jesus, I do not think that we can go this far and achieved so much. A small beginning like this will go a long way. I pray that God will cause many more to be called by Him to be there as missionaries.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law Hui Seng
(13th December, 2009)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Praise the Lord I am now back to greet you again after a long break. I was very busy in the past months. And I am still busy for Jesus. Just want to record a few very important events in GMC. May this sharing encourage you.

Disciple Graduation
Praise the Lord for 28 persons who graduated in Disciple 1, 2, and 3 on 12th November. The testimonies that were very convincing. One of the most powerful even hinted that he might have sinned God if not because of his constant reading of God word with disciple. Many said that disciple helped to realize that God word was living and it met their inner most needs. I can see that GMC must move forward with the help of disciple.

Trip to Limbang (6th-8th November)
I taught Million Leader Mandate book 1 at Limbang Methodist Church for over 50 church leaders. It is a leadership course that allowed me to challenge them to be visionary and start to reach out to the indigenous people using Bahasa Malaysia. I pray that training will bear fruit in future and a BM congregation will be established in the next few years. On Sunday, I also preached in the morning and evening services about holiness and strong family.

Pulau Tiga, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah (23rd to 28th November)
Me and my family had a great holiday at Pulau Tiga. This was the first time in our lives to be in a big volcanic mud pool. We all floated and enjoyed ourselves. We all prayed for healing of our health. I laid hand on all my 4 children and wife and prayed. Each of them prayed for me. It was a great time of family fellowship. In Pulau Tiga Resort, I enjoyed the sea, the beach, wind and the air, the very big monitor lizards (as big as 6,7 kg) and lots of monkeys around. I enjoyed being with my twins to collect shells with crabs. I enjoyed playing Chinese chess with my 2 children; playing thief, police and people with my 4 children. I enjoyed talking to Sabah natives like Bajaus, Kadazans, etc. Praise the Lord for the unforgettable holidays. I told my children it was good to become pastor, we have time together like that.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law
(6th Dec, 2009)

Posted by Teresa Han

Tudan Church Progress

Posted by Peter Yong.

This is the progress of our Tudan Methodist Church building.
Six months after the ground breaking ceremony.
The workers said it was 70% done.

Praise the Lord.

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

Thank You
Praise the Lord I am back to write a few lines to encourage you again. Thanks for praying for me and my family and my mission team members during my Northern Thailand mission trip (16th to 23rd October, 2009) and Ulu Belaga missions (26th to 28th October).

Be A Pastor At Thailand
We reached out to Akha, indigenous people of northern Thailand. We were based at Ban Hin Theat, Chiang Rai. I focused on teaching leadership using International Leadership Institute material for 23 Akha pastors who take care of over 20 Methodist churches with 1800 baptized members. They were blessed by the 4 core values of intimacy with God; visionary leadership; multiplication of leadership and family priority. I taught in Mandarin and it was translated into Akha language. Most of them responded and said that they now became more certain of leaders should do. They even challenged me not become a pastor in Sarawak only. I should also become a pastor in Thailand.

Dangerous Mission Trip
For the Ulu Belaga Penan missions was also equally exciting and challenging. We drove through dangerous timber roads. One of our 4 wheel drive drop into the valley. We faced very dusty roads and stopped many times as we could see the road ahead. We were told there accidents every now and then. It was a dangerous missions where we required to trust God and pray much for protection and safety during the missions trip.

4 Missionaries Confirmed
We had successfully located the venue of stay for our future 4 missionaries (2 for long terms, 4 years, 2 for short term of 1 year). Praise one of them is a retired primary school principal. I had no doubt that they would do a good job. This afternoon we had a debriefing, one mission team member commented that with the presence of that retired principal, the Penan children in those 3 long houses (Long Singu, Long Menepa and Long Peran) will definitely experience changes in life and they will progress.

Go Back Again
The other objective we achieved was that all the mission team members of Hwai En, Yi En, Mei Ann, Grace and SMCGC Methodist churches promised to organize mission teams to go back to those long houses to support the missionaries. Next year, we now 8 teams confirmed going in.

Pray that SCAC will experience a great mission movement both locally and overseas. We really need to make disciples of all nations to the ENDS of the earth.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law
(1st November, 2009)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends out there,

Praise the Lord I am able to write to you tonight. For next Sunday, I will be preaching and doing mission in Cheng Rai, NorthernThailand, 16th to 22nd. Please pray for me and my team. I am joining the as an advisor to the Miri District Commission of Mission. So, I am not able to write to you next Sunday night.

Praise the Lord, this afternoon we had a successful mission with GMC youths at Sg. Burid long house. 9 of our youths were involved to do singspiration, prayers, story telling, colouring, games and testimony among about 15 children in Bahasa Malaysia. They really proved that they could do a good job. I am really encouraged to see the youths in mission.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law
(11th October, 2009)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends out there,

I had done Marriage Enrichment Seminar 6 years ago in Kuching. After that I was tasked to do follow-up with other 2 couples (pastors). We met for only one time and stopped because of the geographical reason. Praise the Lord GMC has 3 couples who attended the same seminar. Now, myself and my wife (Julia) can join them for follow up purpose. Last night, we joined them for the first time. It was very exciting and I felt supported by them. We confessed our failures and success in marriage. Then, we try to suggest how to help one another to improve. It is very honest and down to earth sharing.

This course is run by SCAC board of wellness (in mandarin) every year and I encourage you all to join.

Also, I would like to share that I really enjoyed my personal time with each one of my children after the 6A parenting seminar. I am doing my second round of Monday (my off day) one to one appointment with them. Today, I went out with Mercy (9 years old). It was such a privilege to be able to talk with her. She requested rojak and ABC, and both of us enjoyed it very much. I was able to challenge her to do better in this semester. She took up the challenge.

I pray that God bless your marriage and family.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law
(5th October, 2009)

Posted by Teresa Han