Ten years ago, we were in a place, and I saw this vision: Jesus is carrying...

Ten years ago, we were in a place, and I saw this vision: Jesus is carrying Malaysia and offering to the Father who is sitting on the throne, saying “Father, spare Malaysia for I’ve died for Malaysia”. That had really changed the way I see how we pray for Malaysia. In Psalm 2:8 says, “Ask me, and I will make the nations your inheritance, the ends of the earth your possession”. Another incident (impacting me in prayer) is that happening in July last year, when a group of us were in Chennai, a little crisis happened because the Strait’s Time in Singapore said KL in turmoil. It was a time where we were receiving a lot of SMS and people in Malaysia were asking us to pray for Malaysia. Somehow God really opened a door and there’re about 170 people from 40 nations, we prayed. In that prayer, the LORD was confirming many things. One of those things is, we ever see Malaysia National Prayer Network (MNPN) was launched in March 2008. We have been praying in this special room, the upper room, in St Paul’s Church PJ. Every time, we ended up with the LORD’s Prayer. In the July prayer, when the facilitator ended the session said, “come, let’s invite the Kingdom of God into our country” and followed by the LORD’s Prayer, the LORD reminded me by saying, “Ann, if you continue to pray for His Kingdom come & His will be done, He will answer.”
As we pray, His strength in exchange of our weakness. Whatever we can’t do, He is going to give it to us as we pray. Prayer is conversation with God and we’re seeing it happened among the children. The 7-year old, the 4-year old, they all pray! God is so merciful. As the older ones are advancing in age, the Lord is raising up the younger ones. The Church has hope!
MNPN could literally means “Malaysia Now Praying Nation”. We are gathering at noon time to pray for revival and for transformation of the nations.

Church is without wall. This is the vision of a couple who came from US in the ...

Church is without wall. This is the vision of a couple who came from US in the mid 80’s to initiate the community-based church in Alor Setar, Kedah. First of all, a kindergarten for the community was established. At one stage of time, we had more than 1,000 kids. We were able to make tremendous impacts in the children, not only in the academic, but also in terms of values, characteristics and the child development. Parents are also greatly blessed by that. From there, we move on to various ministries: a dialysis center, home for orphanage or abandoned children, elderly recreation center, a centre for physically and mentally challenged, and “soup kitchen” (feeding the poor 5 days a week) to feed the poor in the streets. We also involve in prison ministry. We have a half-way-home for ex-prisoners by getting them job and eventually restoring their relationship with family. Through our caring social works, we are trying to come into contact with the people so that they may see and personally experience the love of God. Even during our minister to the prisoners, we have seen some of the most wicked, heart hardened criminal came to know God, and turn their lives to God. It’s so amazing! This is the joy of our ministry.

After the Japanese War, the British wanted to fight the Communist. In order to...

After the Japanese War, the British wanted to fight the Communist. In order to stop the Communist infiltration, they created many new villages. The British also invited mission agencies to come. South Perak by the Oversea Mission Fellowship; a few Anglican churches also have church missionary societies.
North Perak & Ulu Perak are mostly of the American Lutheran, they aimed to start mission works through medical, education & social. But medical is the attractive one as the village people are very poor, they have no money to go hospital. Many people were not healthy in many senses. After the War, they’re even struggling to find a living. Missionaries gave them milk power especially for the children. Eventually, they become the “milk-powder religion”. 50 years after independence, many of the village people migrated to big cities to get work. In 80’s or 90’s, many of them even migrated overseas to become foreign workers, in US, Canada or UK, and that posed many difficulties. They sent back money which is good, but whereas the children will have no parental guides, usually left behind with their grand-parents. That would breed some discipline problem which then leads to other problems like gangsterism, drug addictions and many abuses. The church is very needed in the new villages. As the church went in, we have to do a lot of educational work to uplift the level of education for the children, so that they may have a future. We also have to be act as “social workers”, to take them to the hospitals, or to clinics or centers. Sometime, we have to act in between to take them to police station, or to bring the family to visit their love one in jail due to many other reasons. So, these works will carry on but it’s mostly on the elderly and the young. For the elderly, due to the advance in age, funeral service is also a big thing. We always spend a lot of time there, sometimes up to 4-5 days. For the children, by the time they come to secondary schools, most of them will leave for other places, and very hardly will see them back.

The progress & development enjoyed by Selangor in the past years...

The progress & development enjoyed by Selangor in the past years unfortunately brings in some social-concerned issues. Problems like neglected children, the breakdown of family structures, certain addictions among young people, the urban poor, issue of migrant workers which number from 300,000 in Malaysia, with most of them concentrated in the Klang Valley. These are the challenges but the same time opportunity to the church to contribute in Selangor.

Sabah is one of the poorest state in Malaysia. The major people groups here...

Sabah is one of the poorest state in Malaysia. The major people groups here are bumiputeras (the native people). SIB is now ministering to the bumiputeras in East Malaysia. In addition to spreading the word of God, our objective is to help strengthening the Bumiputeras community in the interior. One of our major focuses is to help uplift the native churches in developing leaders, in uplifting the Bible school for training leaders. Consequently, these will result in the uplifting of the welfare and well-being of the Bumiputeras community.
We are also bringing in church members, church leaders from other part of Malaysia to be partnering with some of our 532 bumiputeras-churches in Sabah. Bumiputeras in general are very disadvantaged in education and finances. Many of them are easily influenced by cunning people. Some of them have even lost their land because of lack of proper education. Some of them easily fallen away from their Christian faith. Please pray for the efforts of the churches here in building them up, giving them awareness & training them up in Biblical foundation. It’s our hope to see transformation right in the interior.