Dear faithful disciples of Jesus in GMC and friends out there,

This may be my last message to you this year as I may be very busy and not able to write. My heart is full of thanksgiving for Jesus put me 9 years in GMC. This is a very rare pastoral experience. In SCAC, they do not normally do it. The most they give is 6 years. As a result, as I reflect, I have the privilege to experience the following lessons:

Firstly, I am able to see the fruit of my labor – how Jesus has transformed quite many individuals through my preaching, prayer, counseling, visitation, challenge and encouragement. Some begin to do more mission, take up leadership roles, start to teach the word of God, etc. However, their growth is entirely the work of Jesus and His Spirit; many others who are helping them also play very important role. Praise the Lord for the community life in Jesus, in GMC.

Secondly, praise the Lord I can see children who grew up to be youths. Lots of them I baptized and I confirmed. I have the great privilege to make them disciples. I pray that when they set up their families in future, they will remember to apply the word of God which I applied on them. The feeling of seeing them grow up is such a joy.

Thirdly, the small group members who bid me have said something very encouraging and affirming to me. These encouragements I want to record them here to help me in my future ministry. This recent farewell by the youths and advisors on 4th December has encouraged me a lot. The summary of their comments is this. They thank me for spending time with them; teaching them character and a personal relationship with Jesus. I may not have fluent English but I am very passionate for Jesus and for the lost. I remain truthful to what I preach. I do what I preach. I am a person with faith and I persevere despite the odds. I may not be so good as what they say but I definitely work hard for they say. Then, the small group farewell 14th December also gave me very deep compliments which I believe will help me to go very far for my future pastoral ministry. I pray that all these comments about me glorify Jesus. I attribute it to Jesus working in me. The highest comment I receive so far is that they see Jesus in me. Yes, this is exactly what I am living for; I desire to be like Jesus. As I reflect on it, I know I am very far from Jesus because I am still very self-centered. I constantly struggle between my will and Jesus’ will. When I am able to Jesus’ I am so powerful for Jesus. I know when I do it, it requires so much sacrifice. There were others who said that I am passionate; they understood why I weep in my preaching; I am people pastor; I am a mission pastor; I am a church planting pastor; I am available to counsel people whom they referred and I do follow up on them; I care about their family and children; I push them to study the 9 months disciple course which impacted their lives; my personally advice and counseling help them in life decision making, etc. What a privilege to hear. My wife, Julia was also there to hear and felt encouraged.

Fourthly, I am able to build up strong, long and lasting relationship through the last 5 years of 9 month disciple bible studies. We had very good fellowship and we always do heart to heart talk in the bible studies discussion. They opened up and I witnessed with my own eyes how their lives are transformed. I believe I have helped some of them to acquire some skill of life reflections. I always remind them to make decisions that seek approval of 3 persons that is God in the person of Jesus, and others and the self. Is it allowed by Jesus? What do other people say? Can your feel comfortable with your conscience? I strongly believe that these relationships which I built up through last 9 years will not be easily forgotten. They will be with me throughout my life and I will bring them with me into heaven with Jesus!

I pray that my sharing above has made a difference for Jesus.

God bless.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(17th December, 2010)

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

This past week has proved to be a great week again for Jesus in my life. As I keep close to Jesus, despite facing challenging pastoral care problems, I am able to hold my calm and I have peace and joy to deal with every case. The problems are not overcome because of my intervention and help. I believe that God will make good all the problems for the good of those who love Him!

As I think of what to say at the farewell, the more I think of what I have done and achieved in GMC in the past 9 years, the more I am reminded that I have been imperfect, and I need Jesus to help me very much. The idea of my imperfection keeps coming to me! I interpret this condition as God is humbling me. Praise the Lord He humbled me.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(14th November, 2010)

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

It is with great joy that I can write to you all. It was very much a great week as I made my life count for Jesus. I visited an AIDS patient and her 2 small children with a couple; a patient at psychiatrist ward with a few caring brothers and sisters; 2 small groups headed by sister Regina and sister Yii Ming Chu which bid me and my family farewell.

At the farewell, there were about 20 persons who said very encouraging words for me and my wife. I now want to record them for your reference. They commented very positively about my 9 years of ministry in GMC. Some of these comments surprised me but I really thank God for all the comments! God used to minister to them. The comments were: I am a people pastor; approachable; work hard and make sacrifice for them; my prayers were powerful for the sick; pre-marital counseling done was helping them in marriage and they could even use the lessons they learn to help troubled couple; thank me for the baptism; I have strong faith in Jesus and I truly serve God from my heart; I love God and people; my faith is simple, pure and childlike; my sermons and counseling helped in the congregation’s temperament; they understood my passion for Jesus and why I wept over the pulpit; they believed that when I preached I really meant what I said and it was all from God; my encouragement to them to join the small group helped to come out of lukewarmness; I am available to minister to them; etc. They appreciated my wife, Julia, for spending time with a few sisters and her counsels were affirmative and helped them in their spiritual growth. They prayed that God would realize His vision of training Bahasa Malaysia pastors and missionaries in SCAC as I choose to obey Him.

I responded to say that their encouragements would help me to go very far in my future ministry! I would remember them.

A faithful disciple of Jesus.

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(7th November, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

I only have 2 months left in GMC.

Friday night, Mui Foon’s small group bid me and family farewell. It gave me a chance to describe the history of God’s calling to do Master of Theology in BM. I just want to put it down briefly in writing here.

Ever since my secondary school and university (USM) days (1979 – 1991), I paid great attention to BM. It was partly Malaysian government educational emphasis to pass it, that motivated to be so keen about the language. Now, as I looked back, I see it as God’s conviction and preparation for me to use BM as a means to make disciples among the indigenous people of Sarawak!

When I became a pastor, under challenge by Rev Dr Tie’s sermon, I am convinced that BM is a language in Malaysia that God uses for us to reach out to the indigenous people. I have been doing indigenous people ministry using BM for about 10 years with SCAC team now. I have no regret about it as BM ministry is flourishing. We now have established BM congregations in Sibu (2), Kuching (3), Miri (1), and Bintulu (1). Recently, for the past few years, whenever it comes to the end of the year posting of pastors, we learn of heart cry for BM pastors in lots of churches! Indigenous people are flocking to the towns in Sarawak. Harvests are plentiful but workers are few.

A few years ago, while on my way to Brunei to minister to one brother, God gave me a vision to train BM pastors and missionaries. Since SCAC vision is to see BM congregations planted in different towns, so, we need to train BM pastors. The need to establish a BM theological department in our own Sibu Theological School came to my mind. With that vision, I wrote to Board of Ministry, SCAC, for permission to do the Masters. They granted the approval to do it in 2011 and 2012.

Do pray that I am faithful to that God’s calling; and I am able to mobilize a team of BM speaking pastors to start BM department in a few times’ upon my graduation. I may not be serving as a full time lecturer as my fundamental calling is to be a pastor. I want to be a model BM speaking pastor for the BM congregations. My thesis is along the line of how to overcome cultural barriers as pastor and shepherd the indigenous people to become matured disciples of Jesus.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(31st October, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

I only have about 2 months one week left in GMC. I look forward to studying at Sabah Theological Seminary, Kota Kinabalu. By the end of December, I will not be writing to you anymore because a new pastor will take over my place. He or she may be writing to you all.

Do pray that Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference will send a suitable pastor to GMC and the whole church will move to a greater height for Jesus.

During the course of this week, I was involved in quite a few ministries. Praise the Lord for the privilege to be involved in the lives of these students and the congregation. On Wednesday and Thursday mornings, I was involved in the NO Apologies teaching at a school among the 40 indigenous people and few Chinese. I was overwhelmed by the need to teach them about sex. The questions asked on paper really made me feel that our youth generation has been exposed to very unhealthy sex ideas. They have been destroyed by pornography. Many of them had sex before marriage. It was too late for us to organize No Apologies in Form 3. We should organize a more simple version when they are in Form 1.

On Wednesday afternoon, I visited with a church member for a 17 year old teenager at the General Hospital Psychiatrist ward. She is all alone in the ward. She is so pitiful. She has strong strength to stop me from closing the windows. She will tear her own clothes. At night she may shout for no reason. She will strip herself naked. Her parents just cannot help her but they leave her at the hospital. As we sang the spiritual songs, she started to soften. She did not stop me from closing the windows. For a few moments, she even wept! We anointed her with olive and pray to cast the evil spirits out of her. The parents were also there. They appreciated us. We will go back there again to care, love, support, pray and do deliverance again this coming Wednesday. Do pray for us.

On Friday night and Saturday afternoon, I gave baptism and confirmation class. Today, I baptized and confirmed about 30 youths and adults. Praise the Lord! On Saturday morning and night, Sunday afternoon and tonight, I gave pre-marital counseling to 2 couples separately. I really thank God for the great privilege to share my marriage life with them and at the same time, I was able to help them in their struggles. I guide them to strong disciples in marriage!

A Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(24th October, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

Praise the Lord I have the discipline to write to you weekly. These few weeks I am very inspired to write as there are so many good things which involve the hand of God are happening.

Our mission team headed by brother Richard Lin had done the reading bus for the second time at Tudan Methodist Church for the indigenous people yesterday afternoon. There were over 70 children who turned up. This is our second time fortnightly; this is a 3 months project. Then, at night, they did the Apha, as usual, in BM. At the same time, I am told by our GMC mission Chairman, brother Aaron that Piasau Baptist Church is interested to explore with us to do reading bus. They are going to meet next Tuesday over breakfast to discuss the possibility. I share the vision of the reading with Sarawak Indigenous People Committee (SCAC), on Wednesday morning, the District Commission of Evangelism of Bintulu, Brother Patirck Liw is interested to do it. The Sarikei district superintendant, Rev Kwan is also interested. For both the districts, their plan for it is next year. Let us pray that all these 3 possibilities will come true. My burden and vision are to see lots of indigenous people saved and become disciples of Jesus and many of them will become BM pastors and missionaries.

Last Sunday, we launched the Alpha Sunday, immediately after that, on Monday, Sally and team reached out to brother Kah Peng’s mom and she accepted Christ. We now have one “star fish” moved from the sandy beach to the ocean. Let us continue to pray that all these “star fish” will move over by the end of 2011.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(17th October, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

Praise the Lord for a great week. I believe my life has been enriched by what I see and experienced this week. God is causing good things to happen in GMC.

Firstly, the weekend Primary 6 retreat attracted some 26 boys and girls to come. All of them said yes to Jesus. We encourage them to go on to the i-youth or MJYF after this year. Teacher Vivien Lim has done a very good job.

Secondly, I met a 17 old Iban girl who needs help in the psychiatry hospital. I was told that when parents do not give her the attention, her condition turns worse. I learn that when a person does not receive enough love, it literally affects every area of your life. It affects you mentally, physically, psychologically, socially, etc. It challenges me to mobilize a few sisters to help her. Please pray that our love for her will help to heal her a little.

Thirdly, the Alpha weekend was simply too great. The non-threatening approach, seek sensitive approach, genuine caring approach and most important of all, allowing the Holy Spirit to work approach is so simple and practical an approach to do evangelism. I pray that GMC will take this approach far and really win people for Christ. Today, I see at least 200 star fish (which represents 200 persons) which we commit to God in prayer and eventually we need to invite them to come for Alpha. I pray that we will keep doing Alpha and make disciples of all nations.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(10th October, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Praise the Lord for the past week. It was a very busy week for me. I believe my presence at the GB and BB at SJK Pujut really helped the 57 boys and girls to grow to become disciples of Jesus. I taught them 3 godly characters of initiative, enthusiasm and dependability have helped mould their characters. I believe the games which we played and they bring out the meanings of the characters would reinforce my teachings on the 3 characters.

Today I preached the last sermon on the social concerns on repentance. My text is from Luke 23:26-42. Especially what Jesus said on the cross, “Father, forgive them for they do not know what they do” is so inspiring for me. I preach with very strong conviction that God in the person of Jesus is very forgiving towards sinners and therefore, we must willing to repent and accepted. This saying of Jesus has guided my ministry for these many years, it helps me to see sinners as God sees them. So, I give lots of time and space to repent; and I do not give up on people who sin greatly against God. I put it to them that if we sin, we are fighting against God and how can we stand God’s judgment?

Yesterday was also a great day for GMC as it marked the beginning of GMC mission in doing Reading Bus (mobile library), by mobilizing some 60 children at Tudan to read English. I pray that this 3 months fortnightly project follow by Alpha (evangelism tool) will become an inspiration for other Methodist Churches. They will become excited about it also and do it in the future.

A Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(3rd October, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Today is the Dedication service for the new Tudan Methodist Church. What is most meaningful about this great event? My points are as follows:

a. It is the first Bahasa Malaysia church of Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference. It is located in the midst of poor Tudan resettled indigenous people. This church must become salt and light for Tudan settlers, most of them are Ibans. Praise the Lord I was there doing the pioneering works in the year 2004 till 2006.

b. It is a great testimony of Methodist connectionalism at work. The state government gives a piece of land. We built a church of more than RM1.3 million. We raised most fund from Miri District; the rest we get from SCAC, Kuching, Bintulu, Sibu, Sarikei, Brunei, Limbang, State and Federal governments and even Singapore and United States. Another aspect of connectionalism is from her beginning in November, 2004 until today, manpower supply to help the church is coming from a few other Methodist churches in the District. We received manpower help from Mei Ann, Hwai En, Life, Grace, and Yi En. Quite a few brothers and sisters from GMC have helped from the beginning until now. Some of the very faithful ones are Margaret Lee, Charles Ling, Audrey Lui, Edward Woodford and William Ketit. In its very beginning, years 2004 and 2005, brother Mak Met was instrumental in spearheading the BM ministry. Eventually it was taken over by brother Wong Kung Kui.

c. This church has the potential to become a model church for the other BM congregations of the Methodist Churches throughout Sarawak. I pray that this church will produce many disciples of Jesus. It will produce many students and missionaries. I pray that I will have the privilege to train some of them to BM speaking pastors. May this church become a pastor and missionary sending church in every sense.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng (26th September, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Praise the Lord for giving me good health to write to you again.

On Thursday and Friday, I and 5 others did a mission survey at Long Urun, Sg Asaph, Ulu Belaga and also, Long Malin, Ulu Belaga. It was a tiring, difficult and dangerous journey as the timber and oil palm roads are bad and full of dust. Praise the Lord for the very experienced drivers like brother Peter Yong from GMC and brother Hii Doh Chin, from Bintulu Gloria Methodist Church.

Praise the Lord, majority of the Penans of Long Urun are going to school. Most of their men worked in palm oil plantations and timber camps. Nearby their long houses, there is a primary school. There are SIB and RC churches. So, we do not consider to go back there.

The second Penan settlement which we surveyed, Long Malin, 2 hours of solid and dangerous drive from Camp Plieran, where our 5 missionaries stayed, there are about 100 Penans . Majority of men are going to work at timber camps. This place is going to be flooded for the Murum Dam. Penans built their own long house and homes. Some of the Penans do not have the means to send their children to go to school. We were told at least 15 of them. SIB pastor, Ajeng only go back to visit them twice a year! With the exception of a few persons, the rest are not baptized! They claim that they are all Christians. They even conduct regular Sunday service on their own. We decide to go back to do some teaching of God’s word, and do social concerns. I pray that brother Joseph Tan of Yi En Methodist church will lead a team to do it. He joined us in this mission survey, he has the burden to do it.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(19th September, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

Praise the Lord I am to write to you with strong sense of mission.

Last week I was in Kuching for 4 days for training 44 pastors and lay people in International Leadership Institute. I was not feeling well on Tuesday and Wednesday. Praise the Lord I was able to teach and train them. I taught and preached on passion for the harvest , practice of evangelism and church planting. I was able to do with strong conviction, motivation, fire and full of the Holy Spirit. Some of them really catch the godly fire to have compassion for the lost. It was worth the investment of my time, energy and my sacrifice.

Today I preached against corruption, I pray that my sermon will result in the children of God repenting from corruption.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(12th September, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

I am very glad to write to all of you again. I always treasure this opportunity as I will not do it all the time. I will be leaving GMC at the beginning of next year for 2 years for my Master of Theology in BM at Kota Kinabalu Sabah Theological Seminary. My family will stay back in Miri for 2 years. Praise the Lord for the provision for a house at Lutong Baru.

Praise the Lord that the LCEC of GMC has decided to do Reading Bus as encouraged by Pastor Cheli 2 months back. It is a mobile library that will make a difference for Jesus. We will reach out to the indigenous children and adults of Tudan. It is about 25 minutes drive from GMC. We will teach them to read English literature like the Lady Bird. One project will last for 3 months, we will go fortnightly and lend them books to read. Let us pray that at the same time, we will preach to them through Village Alpha. I pray that eventually, other Methodist churches will follow suit. Ultimately, it must spread throughout Sarawak villages and kampongs. Pray that these whom we reach out will become disciples of Jesus.

Last weekend I attended the Methodist Heritage organized by Wesley Methodist Church. The speaker, Rev Dr Steve Harper was so inspiring and down to earth in his approach of spiritual formation. I am particularly affirmed by his emphasis on the need of making disciples in our society. We need to call ourselves disciples of Jesus. His great points of our ministry is not determined by results but by our perseverance is so reassuring to me because if our ministry is not fruitful and tough, at times we think of giving up. But what he said encouraged me not to give up if the calling was from Jesus.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(29th August, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Praise the Lord I find time to write a few sentences to you again.

I find training the interns for small group leadership a very refreshing experience. There were 8 of them coming for meeting. I could see their eagerness of learning. Especially the presence of sisters Regina Tan and Yee Ming Chu encouraged me a lot. First of all, they purposely turned up as small group leaders just to accompany their interns. Sister Regina Tan confessed that she prayed for 5 of the interns to come. That strikes me and made me feel that she was really committed to small group ministry.

Praise the Lord for Pastor Cheli of Bethany Home of Kuching is in his final stage of transferring the title of their Landcruiser to GMC. Last Friday, brother Aaron, Pastor Connie Yong (SMCGC) and one brohter, brother Richard Lin, Rev Chang Jing Mei (Tudan Methodist Church) and sister Siman (Tudan Methodist Church) met at Senadin for breakfast, we briefed them on the reading bus project to be done at Tudan Church. They were positive and we hope to start October, 2010. Let us pray that it will materialize.

Praise the Lord for last week I discover from the school results of my twins (primary 5, Tobias and Elliot, a dyslexia) that they have improved. They passed 4 out of 6 subjects. They used to fail more subjects. I see that as me and my wife and church members prayed, God helps us through school teachers, tutors and caring brothers and sisters. It is a great encouragement in my walk with Jesus. I strongly believe that they will get better as we guide them and love them.

A Disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(15th August, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Praise the Lord I find time to write to you again. In the last 2 weeks I was so busy with counseling, visitations and bible studies that I could not find time to do it.

I learnt something last week, it was very significant. I see with my own eyes and felt it by myself. Someone confessed to me that he had peace and yet it was lack of vision in life make him feel no sense of purpose in life. So, peace is not everything in life. In life, you need vision to move you to go on and face tomorrow. For me, it is really very true. For me, I receive visions from God on how to use my life on earth and I work towards. It makes my life forward looking.

God gave me a vision to train more BM speaking pastors. So, there is this need to equip myself in master of theology in BM. Praise the Lord, I am told by Dean of Studies (Sabah Theological Seminary) to go ahead to plan for my studies next year. Upon graduation by 2012, I can be at least be part time lecturer and a full time pastor. My plan is to start to lecture one or two subjects in BM first and build up a BM theological department in Sibu Theological School. This is an uphill task as it will be full of obstacles!

Today at the service of GMC is very eventful for us. It is quite a milestone for us as GMC witnesses the first badge of sign language graduation. I pray that the 21 students who graduated will take up the challenge to seek the hearing impaired people and draw them into the kingdom of God. I pray that it will come a day when GMC will conduct service for a hearing impaired congregation!

I am amazed by a few students who can do sign language on stage (including my wife). I find one common thing in them, that is they all have the interest to learn.

I pray that God will give you His visions from above so that you catch it and you will always work at the vision.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(8th August, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

I tell you only when you are really in touch with the poor and needy, you see how much they need God in the person of Jesus and how much they need love from you and me.

In the last 10 years, God seems to give me greater and greater burden for the indigenous people of Sarawak, though my burden for the Chinese is not less. The more I serve them, the more Jesus is telling me more about them. I spent last Friday to Sunday in Kuching just to conduct 2 seminars on parenting and husband and wife relationship in BM on Friday and Saturday nights. Each night there was about 60 to 70 persons coming and about 20 persons came forward to be ministered. On Sunday, I preached with lots of tears in challenging, inspiring and encouraging more brothers and sisters of the Mandarin congregation (during Indigenous People Sunday) to come forward to help the 60-70 strong BM congregation. My sermon was on “The Love for the lost souls”. I preached once in the morning in Mandarin and once at night in BM. I emphasized to them that the indigenous people who were living near their house were very lost and they needed Christ.

In the afternoon, though there were only about 12 adults, I preached to them in mandarin on the need to send missionaries outside Kuching. Again I preached with tears, appealing to them not to be inward looking. The church is for the sinners, we need to bring sinners into the church and kingdom of God.

The Church struggle a lot as they have no full time BM pastor. However, praise the Lord, the church has the vision to reach out to the indigenous people. They have great shortage of manpower to do Sunday School and youth ministry. One Form one girl whom I counseled cried and could not tell me the reason for absenteeism. After much interpretation, I told her that she was sad. She confessed so and explained that she and her mother and siblings were being chased out of the house in Sibu by the father. Another Form 4 girl who does not have the father in the family did 2 times of abortion. One bomoh came to the church and he was considering to accept Christ. Most of them stayed as squatters with no proper water and electricity supply. I visited for 3 solid hours and God spoke loud and clear to me. I need to mobilize the Chinese to make disciples among these poor people. Their situation is very similar with our Tudan church members, if not more serious than us.

Again, their response to the gospel is good and indeed the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Let us pray for the workers to go forth to harvest.

God bless.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(19th July, 2010)

Pozted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters and friends out there,

Serving God and making disciples are so exciting, when you see people responding to God and lives are transformed as a result of our effort, you just cannot help but keep glorifying God. He has used us to do it. Who are we who can make it happen? We cannot do it if He is not with us.

For this week I am so encouraged to see a few sisters in our church who praying and working on a project to help the poor and needy. Let us pray that the other Methodist churches will agree to provide the used goods for us to set up the Dorcas centre. All the money earned will be used to make disciples of the poor and needy people.

Praise the Lord for we were able to reach out to SMK Suai 25th to 27th June. Sii Ling small group, myself and brother Charles and brother Joseph Tan (Yi En Methodist) went to minister 74 students of the ISCF and Young Catholic Fellowship. We went to motivate them to study Maths, Science and English. Many of them confessed to dislike the subjects but now they promised to study hard in them. They now see the importance of those subjects, especially English. We also teach and preach on sins, salvation, repentance, born again and the Holy Spirit. They really believed in what we taught and many of them repented from anger, hatred, jealousy, laziness, not respecting teachers and parents, etc. Their written testimonies are so touching. Do pray that more and more Methodist churches will do this kind of mission among the borders of outskirt secondary school.

Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law

(27th June, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters,

Praise the Lord for the Gawai Holidays last week and for this week. I am able to achieve very much for Jesus. For last week, I was able to call up quite a few people to do follow up to mobilize them to join small groups, to come for church service and to encourage them to love Jesus. One brother, as a result of my call, he turned up in the Sunday service and I linked him with a small group leader. Yesterday, I visited a youth and counsel him at his home and I also led one middle aged person with serious stroke at his to Christ. I challenge him (Mandarin speaking) to be baptized. The youth is actually related to our brother Richard Lin.

Today I met with brother Chia Soh Pei and arranged for him to do practical in Tudan Methodist Church. He is our church member who is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree at Trinity Theological College at Singapore. He will graduate next year May.

God bless you all to be His faithful disciples.

Christ’s faithful disciple,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(9th June, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

I went for a Gawai visit at brother Alfred Sibat’s house at Permyjaya on 2nd June afternoon with my wife and church members. I think there were about 40 of us in the house. There were Ibans, Chinese, Malays and other tribal groups who were present! It was a wonderful time of fellowship among all races. The presence of Muslims, particularly, strikes me. Thank God for their presence.

This year, so far, I have finished one to one pre-marital with 3 couples. I can see that they learnt a lot and they are more prepared to face their marriage. On my side, I see this effort as disciple making. I pray that they will be heading for a strong marriage and their future generations will be blessed!

A Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(3rd June, 2010)

 
Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,


As I pray, preach, counsel, share my life with others and vice-versa, as I see more and more about the deepest need of church members, I see the need to do lots of missions here in the church, in our family, our workplace, our society, in long houses and in overseas countries. My heart always cries out that there are a lot of needs but not many disciples of Jesus are willing to do missions. No wonder Jesus must die a sacrificial death to show us how to do it; to show us the need to do mission with our life on earth! Do not miss this while you are on earth.

I am committed to do missions everywhere God calls me. I am called particularly to do missions among the indigenous people of Sarawak. Please remember me in your prayers. I will sit for my entrance examination next 6th and 7th July at Kota Kinabalu Sabah Theological College for my subjects like Pastoral Ministry, Missiology and Systematic Theology. I need a lot of discipline to study the subjects and also I need to remember the facts so that I can substantiate my claims in the exam. It is a very crucial examination as it will determine whether I will be admitted into the college or not next year January.



A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng.

(24th May, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Last Saturday morning, I gave baptism class to the 2 older brothers of late brother Jimmy Chan. After the class, sister Adeline Chan and her mother, witnessed the baptism of Jasson Chan. The other brother, Daniel Chan will be baptized in June. Praise the Lord that after GMC brothers and sisters joined me to minister to the Chan’s family in the funeral of their family member, they realized that they needed Christ. I need to baptize Jasson earlier as he is leaving for Australia soon.

Between now and the end of June, please for me that I will discipline myself to do revision on pastoral ministry, missiology, systematic theology and the bible for my entrance examination for my master of theology at Kota Kinabalu Sabah Theological Seminary on 6th and 7th July. My purpose of studying 2 years in it is to be qualified to train future BM speaking pastors and missionaries.

Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law

(16th May, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

My Eight Years Plus of Joy in Grace Methodist Church, Miri

A Vision from God

This is my 9th year in GMC. I do not want to let it go quietly without a testimony. I am afraid I may be too busy to write after I leave GMC as I will leave the church by the end of this year. I am moving on to another chapter of my life. Do pray for me that I will get a place at Sabah Theological Seminary for my Master of Theology in Bahasa Malaysia in 2011 and 2012. Board of Ministry of SCAC has also approved my study leave. God has given me a vision of producing more Bahasa Malaysia speaking pastors and missionaries. Do pray with me that I eventually will mobilize a team of pastors who have the burden to train more BM speaking pastors and missionaries.

I promise myself to write this article in this season of Chinese New Year (2010). Here I am.

My Incapabilities

I came to GMC in 2002 at the age of 35 and now I am about 43 years old. What make GMC a tough church for me to shepherd is not because they are full of professionals. It is because I am not capable. As I am not capable of leading the LCEC; not capable of preaching good sermons; not wise in my speech; not good in my English speaking ability; not strong in administration, etc. There were times when I felt I should leave the church and requested SCAC to post a more capable pastor to come. There was only one time when I could justify to leave GMC. It was at the end of 2007 when I felt I could be much more effective to be the director of Board of Evangelism. I expressed my wish to my District Superintendent and the President then. There was no change and I understood it as it was my own heart desire. God desired me to stay.

My Secret Is Jesus and Him Crucified.

As I look back the past 8 years plus, it was full of joy. This is my conclusion at the end of my 9th year of ministry in GMC though it is still not the end of 2010. I believe after all my encounter with God in the person of Jesus in GMC, I now have a deeper sense of joy which nobody will rob from me. You may be wondering what is my secret. I tell you my simple secret is everything to do with Jesus and Him crucified (1Corinthian 1:23). I write this down with all humility and Jesus knows this is what is going on in me. Now, what this joy is all about. Before I write all about it, I must tell all my fellow pastors, all children of God and disciples of Jesus out there and especially all those who are serving God whole-heartedly and making great disciples, you can have the similar joy that I experience. I truly experience what the joy of the Lord is my strength means.

The Joy of the Lord is my Strength

I discover that nobody except myself keep challenging myself to give up pastoring GMC. My incapabilities caused me to believe so. But, every time I turned to Jesus, the bible, the Holy Spirit, God always showed me He used the most incapable people like a fisherman to be His disciple; He used even immoral people to accomplish His purpose; He used Judas to accomplish His purpose; He used lowly educated people to translate the Bible, etc. But the most important reason is still for me, Jesus and Him crucified. Whenever, I felt incapable to be GMC pastor, I entered into a time of communion with Jesus and Him crucified, I felt like my incapabilities are no more important. He is more important than my incapabilities. His words and my obedience and faithfulness are far more important and valuable than my incapabilities. The picture of His crucifixion and His suffering far exceeds in its importance compared to everything else in my life. Do I choose my incapabilities or Jesus? I always choose Jesus and I always end up with joy and I gain strength to move on. I focus on Jesus and move on again and again.

There were times I received complains of all kinds. These complains challenged every aspect of my life. It includes my integrity; my character; my family life; my negligence; my failures; my weaknesses, my imperfect sermons, etc. I can never finish naming them. Every year I bound to get a few. Of course I was hurt, disappointed, felt not appreciated, discouraged, frustrated, humiliated, embarrassed, sinful, guilty, etc. How do I deal with them? Praise the Lord I discover that I am my own greatest enemy. I come to realize that I need to deal with my own sin like self-centredness, greed, anger, being judgemental, pride, careless, etc. I realize that I cannot be perfect. I need to deal with the self in me. I always look to the crucified Jesus on the cross and told Him all my hurts and all the bad feelings suffered (including those which I experienced in my family), He always show me why He need to suffer on the cross. On the one hand, He suffered for my sins and on the other hand, as His servant, He show how I should suffer like Him and never give up. How when God’s servant like apostle Paul chose to suffer, then, the movement of disciple making could spread far and extensive. Upon such realizations over and over again, I cannot help but rejoicing. I gain strength to move on again and again.

I also discover that it is very important not to let the complaints, demand of others, judgements of others, condemnations of others; misunderstanding of others, anger of others, sin of others, etc define your worth and identity. If there were times I was in big trouble and got very emotional, it was because I allowed my worth and identity to be defined by what other said and did about me. I find that when I allow myself to do so, I kill my own spirit and self-esteem. I always quickly went to Jesus and reminded myself how He saw me. I reminded myself how precious I was to Jesus; how important I was to Him; how He loved me and died for my sins, etc. I always ended up being uplifted. When I allow Jesus to define my worth and identity, I experienced the joy of Jesus as my strength.

When I received harsh words, hurting words, challenging situations, in my early days of ministry, I tend to react with anger and frustration; and I tried to justify myself. I hope to get away with it. But later, I realize I do have my weaknesses, my self-centredness, my pride, my imperfections, etc, I learn to look at people, situation and circumstance from the perspective that God wanted me to learn something. There must be a godly purpose which I need to discover. When I got personal with Jesus like that, I discovered that I had lots of room to improve, learn and grow to become a more matured disciple of Jesus. Upon discovering so much opportunity to grow, learn and become more matured disciple of Jesus, I was always overjoyed. Once again, I experience that knowing there are lots of room for improvement, I am motivated to move on and I gain strength from Jesus to be better and more like Him next time.

Nothing Better Than Becoming A Servant Of God

Each time I experience joy, I experience Jesus and I have a personal encounter with Him, I feel it is such a privilege to be Christ’s servant; a disciple of Him. I always feel nothing is better than being a servant to Jesus. I look forward to the day like what apostle Paul said, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race and I have kept the faith. And I am now awaiting for the crown of righteousness which Jesus the judge of the living and the dead, will give to those who desire His appearance.”

If serving Christ is such a toil to you and you experience no joy, most probably you have missed Jesus. You miss Jesus, you miss everything in life. I cannot afford to miss Jesus in my life. What about you? (you may like to respond to my article by writing to me: ourgrace@streamyx.com)

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(19th February, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends out there,

Praise the Lord for fruitful ministry this week!

On Monday afternoon, I attended the funeral of late brother Jimmy Chan. At the graveyard I was able to say a prayer for one of his sisters for forgiveness to take place among family members. And it happened! It not happened to her but also among other family members. As a result, there were reconciliations among them. I visited them and they shared all these breakthroughs. It was truly the Holy Spirit at work. Actually, before the death of Jimmy, his mother requested him to forgive family members. He did so before he passed away. All this prepare the ground for reconciliations. Also, their other 2 brothers, Daniel and Jackson are now going through baptism. I visited the graveyard yesterday morning for prayer of comfort with their family members. At the graveyard, I took time to explain to them that Jimmy was now with Jesus and encouraged them to let go of their brother and son to Jesus and allow Jesus to take care of him. I did the first session of baptism with them yesterday morning at their homes. They prayed to receive Christ! What a joy.

Today is really a day of joy for me. Daniel and Jackson came and worshipped with us in the church for the first time in GMC. Besides, my University Science Malaysia course mate, Teoh Ai Chuan came with her whole family. Her son is in our BB. Actually I had invited her to come several years to our parenting group. I pray that this whole family will eventually end up in the kingdom of God.

A faithful disciple of Jesus.

Pastor Law

(25th April, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Will You Become A Part of Ulu Belaga Missions Among the Penans?

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has annointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” (Luke 4:18,19)

My Conviction

I am not Jesus and I cannot be Jesus. It will be a great heresy if I proclaim myself to be Jesus the Christ. However, in every sense I consider myself a disciple of Jesus. I dare to call myself one because I responded to Christ’s calling to become one. I am not just a christian or a child of my heavenly father. I am very much a disciple of Jesus who is everything to me. I always tell Him the day I am of no more use to Him on earth, He must take me home to be with Him as soon as possible.

How to be like Jesus?

For now, I treasure my life on earth as he commissioned me to live. I strongly believe that Jesus the Christ called me to be like Him. And I always ask myself in my journey of faith and in my personal relationship with Him, How to be like Jesus, Christ, my Lord? If I am like Him, there must be some ways He made something happen in my life as I submit my life to Him. This is when paragraphs like the following mean a lot to me. I always allow it to become a part of me. I pray that you see it is true in my life.

Apostle Paul has expressed my heart desire for Jesus very much. He prayed for Ephesians in 3:16-21, “I pray that out of his glorius riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” I believe without a single doubt that my heavenly father is blessing me with riches that strengthen me with power throught Christ’s Spirit in my inner being to preach the good news to the poor, the blind, the prisoners, and the oppressed. That divine Spirit who is upon Jesus is also in me! So, I am like Jesus because I am by empowered and filled by Christ’s Spirit to do what is commissioned by God to do on earth. I have all the resources needed to do Christ’s mission on earth. Do you also believe the same?

Jesus must stand up in my life

Nowadays, the more I obey Jesus, the more I feel I have to be like Him. Otherwise, I have no strength, power, faith, love, hope and joy to go on serving Him and be His disciple. I begin to understand much more what Jesus meant by “I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.” (John 15:5) If Jesus is not everything to me; if I am not like Him, I cannot bear fruit at all. I will not have the Christ-like characters that the world need so much. I will not have the power to defeat the devil which try to influence me to quit whenever the goings get tough. I will not have the faith to see visions after visions given by God for the Chinese and indigenous people of Sarawak and persevere to materialize it. I will not have the power to heal the sick and set the captives (those under bondages) free. I would not be empowered to preach, teach and pray to transform lives in the churces and in the mission fields. I would not be able to handle my anger and hatred when I am provoked. I would not be able to resist temptation to condemn people and give up on people who disobey God. I would not be able to forgive my wife and children and brothers and sisters who hurt me.

Jesus has put my sinfulness, self-centredness, egoism and everything that is in me under His control. The list could go on and on. I pray that you see the difference Jesus makes in my life. It is my heart desire and commitment to God in the person of Jesus that by all means Jesus must stand high and tall in my life.

I pray that you will understand why I justify myself like the above when I share with you the historical development of Ulu Belaga mission among the Penan.

Do not miss the Methodist missions among the Penans of Ulu Belaga

I strongly believe that when the Church of God, Sarawak Chinese Annual Conference (SCAC), Board of Evangelism, Sarawak Indigenous People Committee (SIPC) and I myself get right with the word of God (Bible), the Spirit of Christ and the person of Jesus Christ, we fear no evil, no amount of human obstacles and circumstances, no principalities and dark power in the air, no shortage of resources of whatever kind can stop us from going far and extensive for Jesus in His kingdom. May Jesus grant you and me this high level of faith in our individual life and church life. I strongly believe my above passages of theological and biblical justifications enable us to do our missions among the Penans of Ulu Belaga. I strongly believe that God in the person of Jesus and His spirit is very much behind the historical development of Ulu Belaga Penan missions. I pray that as you read this arcticle, you will witness the spirit of Jesus working in the lives of those who love Jesus and obey Him. When I write this sentece my poor imagination help me to imagine lots of these peoples’ in my unimaginative mind and I am so touched and encouraged by them. Emotions well up in me. How can I not be touched by their authentic, genuine love for Jesus? So, when I recall their names, I pray that we are all inspired and challenged by what they have done for Jesus. I am very sorry I cannot recall all the names who made such an impact in the Ulu Belaga missions. It does not mean you are not important in your contribution. May Jesus remember you for your good work at Ulu Belaga.

Rev. Wong Kiu Nguok

The initial stage of our Ulu Belaga Penan missions have everything to do with her. It is very amazing how God put the burden of reaching out to the Ulu Belaga Penans in her heart. The story begins in 2008 or even earlier. She was SCAC Board of Evangelism missionary for a few years at Bakun Hydroelectric dam project site. A retired pastor of SCAC. A pastor who vows to put her retirement into good use for Jesus. She was assigned there for four years to reach out to the Chinese from mainland China.

During her missions to the Chinese in Bakun, she heard of the plight of the Penans. As she worked with the short term mission members from Hwai En Methodist Church (Miri), in reaching out to the Chinese from China, in an outreach meeting, she mentioned that the Ulu Belaga Penan children were poor without clothing and education. This simple statement touched one brother Hii from the mission team to tears. He told Rev Wong in tears that he could not stand people telling him that chilren were without clothing and education. This encounter encouraged Rev Wong very much and it encouraged her to mobilize SCAC to reach out to the Penans. This is one incident that strikes her and causes her to increase her burden for the Penans salvation. Most probably a great vision to make disciples for Jesus among the Penans was born like that. Of course she has been praying much for them.

Also, during her travel from Bakun project site to Bintulu for all kinds of meeting ranging from the local church (Ming Ong Methodist) to the District level meetings, she always travel by one van. The driver (brother Liao) who loved Jesus always told her that he came across lots of Penans in his business dealing with them whom we might reach out for Jesus. I believe God uses a layman like a driver to help Rev Wong to develop a stronger sense of vision for SCAC to reach out. She has been praying and at the same time she made many phone calls to me, telling me (who is the chairman of SCAC board of evanglism) to arrange for a time to find the Penans. I brought the need to the attention of SIPC. Praise the Lord they gave me the blessing to arrange for a fact finding missions among the Ulu Belaga Penans.

For the whole of 2008, I was in communication with Rev Wong and we seemed to have very serious miscommunications over the phone. God forgives me for all these miscommunications. With all sincerity I confess to readers that I am quite poor at communications at all levels. The older I get the more serious my communication problem becomes. Over the phone, she presumed, I supposed by implications of our communication, I would take action to spearhead the mission. On my side, I thought she was so near the Penans, she should be calling the shot. Furthermore, in our telephone conversations, I always told her to locate the Penan long houses and then let me know. That never happened because of miscommunications. However, she persevered and without fail, she would once a while called me throughout 2008 and asked me for the progress. She gave me a contact of lorry driver of food supplies to timber camps but I had great difficulties in finding him. According to her, he will be able to give me more information on the Penan situations. I always told her I could not get him. Finally, I wanted to give up on the lorry driver. Also, then, I realized I had a great miscommunication with Rev Wong. I felt like I suddenly wake up from my sleep and now, only now, I made myself very clear to her that she was to find the means to locate the Penan long houses. I would be waiting for her answers. She also realized our miscommunication towards the end of 2008. She has always prayed for God’s open door to reach out to the Penans of Ulu Belaga.

As I look back now, I believe God, the Spirit of Christ, made us realized our miscommunication and of course that happened for a purpose only God knew why. May be it was for the purpose of making sure that missions among Penans was done according to His timing in everything.

Rev Wong eventually shared with me how God led her to a timber camp manager (who happened to be a Methodist, brother Ling) of Rimbunan Hijau Company in a bus and eventually he led her to see one Mr Ting, an experienced General Manager of the Rimbunan Hijau Company for the timber camps. This brother also happened to be a Methodist, he is also someone whom Rev Wong used to shepheard before. What an arrangement by God! When Jesus Christ, our Lord and master desired His missions to be done among the Penans, of course He would make sure all the relevant people would meet together to accomplish His purpose. Do you believe this? So, if what you are doing is God’s agenda, He will make sure it will be done. He will provide everthing you need. You just need to seek Him and pray and do all the necessary things and wait for His intervention!

Mr Ting promised Rev Wong to give whatever help he can to reach out to the Penans. In November, 2008 SCAC, I called for Rev Wong, Rev Wong Kee Sing (chairman of SIPC), Rev Hii Kong Ching (District Superintendant of Bintulu District), and myself to meet and plan for a visit to a Penan long house which Mr Ting would identify. In that SCAC, we fixed 15th January, 2009, to visit the Penan and to do fact finding mission. It was a crucial decision and a decision that made a difference for Jesus.

First Penan Long House (Long Menepa) Visit, 15th January, 2009

Mr Ting used his 4-wheel drive to bring us to the first Penan long house at Ulu Belaga, Long Menepa. It is located near (5 minutes’ drive) one Rimbunan Hijau timber camp. Praise the Lord for the tuai rumah was very receptive of us and he welcomed us back to the long house to do missions. We were told that only SIB pastor visited them once in a blue moon. There was no baptism yet. We were also told of there were also quite a few Penan long houses at Ulu Belaga. A few names of the Penan long houses in other areas were given to us for our reference as we requested for them. These names become our targets of mission survey in the next trip. We were told that Shin Yang timber company actually built these other Penan long houses.

During our visit to Long Menepa, and our brief interaction with the long house Penan folks, we noticed there were at least 60 doors (each door is about 6-8 persons) and we found very useful information like: their illiteracy; their ability to speak Iban and Bahasa Malaysia (we communicated with them in BM!); many youths and little children and babies; reared dogs to help them in hunting; some can plant padi; most do not have enough to eat; few of them work in timber camps; they do not have the means to send their children to go to the nearest government school few hours of driving distance away, etc.

During the whole journey to and fro Bintulu and Long Menepa, the 4 of us discuss a lot on what need to done after this visit. Especially Rev Wong kept encouraging us to go back and do follow up. She challenged us to pay attention to the Penan children education. We agreed and it looked like, with God’s guidance in a journey like that, a vision to do Penan missions in the area of education was born just like that! We also thought of helping them with food production but that was something for long term plan. Most important point of all, we see the need to do missions among the Penans at Ulu Belaga in that short survey of only one long house. It was a very fruitful fact finding mission. We finally managed to be in contact with Ulu Belaga Penans! We met them face to face and we prayed for them and even promise to come back again. We were told that all the Penan long houses identified were accessible by timber roads! I always call these roads as God has opened them for missions. When there are roads or rivers, no matter who build them, we Christians and disciples of Jesus must see them as roads or rivers for mission. If there are roads or rivers that lead to a settlement of people, it is a sign that God says missions must be done there. I pray that you agree with me with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.

All 4 of us came back excited and we all committed to prayer for God to open doors at Ulu Belaga to do missions. I came back to GMC kept talking about it and even share about it over the pulpit and annoucement. I appealed for Shin Yang staff to step forward to help to locate those long houses which are built by their company. As I prayed about it, the Jesus led me to think of brother Peter Ting, a regular worshipper of Grace Methodist Church, Miri.

My Encounter with brother Peter Ting

During 2009 Chinese New Year, as I did visitation at brother Peter Ting’s house, I just prompt him to arrange an opportunity to meet with Shin Yang boss. I left him with that challenge, and eventually he came back to me and we managed to see his boss, brother Ling Chiong Ping (from Jesus is Lord Church). Praise the Lord, in the meeting brother Ling gave us the blessing to do survey of Penan long houses built by them and the company provided the facility (4-wheel drive, drivers, accomodation, etc) for us to do the bigger scale mission survey of Penan long houses like Long Luhat (Peran), Long Singu, Long Luar, Long Tangau, Long * and Long Watt. Now, we had access to 7 Penan long houses. Brother Peter Ting who organized the trip for us (myself, Rev Wong Mee Ing, pastor Wong Lik Kai, both were the advisors to Bintulu District Commission of Evangelism, brother Liw Hui Peng, the Chairman of Bintulu District Commission of Evangelism, 2 pontential missionaries, Mandy Wong and Wong Hie Ching, both are from Trinity Methodist Church, Kuching) and survey the 4 Penan long houses, except Long Tangau and Long Luar which need to go by river, on 2nd to 4th March, 2009. As for Long Tangau and Long Luar, eventually, brother Peter Ting and I brought another team to go back there on 25th and 26th May, 2009.

These missions survey confirmed one thing, the tuai rumah and Penan adults welcome us to send missionaries to help their children in the area of education. Every long house we visited we saw lots of lovely children and babies. We took photos of them and we publicized at Mukah SCAC Pastors’ School, 16th to19th March, 2009. SIPC produced DVD and powerpoints to appeal for SCAC brothers and sisters to go to Ulu Belaga to do short term and long term missions. Lots of SCAC churches publicize on July 2009 Indigenous People Sunday using the DVDs to pray and to mobilize manpower for the Ulu Belaga Penan missions.

After the second mission survey, SCAC Board of Evangelism and SIPC made the decision (during 15th March, 2009 SIPC and board of evangelism meeting) to send missionaries to Ulu Belaga. We appealed for 14 missionaries, 2 missionaries for each long house to be stationed there to teach the children in the area of education.

We also decided to ask brother Liw Hui Peng to be the coordinator in Bintulu for all the mission teams mobilized in Bintulu and Miri for the purpose of outreach to the Penans at Ulu Belaga. I helped to write and get all the approvals (via brother Peter Ting) from Shin Yang boss, brother Ling to go for short term mission trips of 3 days 2 night by churches to those long houses which we identified.

Praise the Lord, through the help of brother Peter Ting, meetings with brother Ling proved to be very fruitful. He allowed us to send missionaries to go in and stay at the hostels provided by Shin Yang company.

Positive Missionary Reponses in 2009

The spirit of Christ was mightily at work among SCAC brothers and sisters. Not only we mobilize enough mission teams to do follow up on those long houses, we also received responses of especially 4 sisters who committted to long term (Wong Hie Ching, Ting Sung Ngo, 4 years) and short term (Mandy Wong, Ling Fang Fang) missions to Ulu Belaga! This is an excellent testimony of our prayers and faith in Christ. Wong Hie Ching, Mandy Wong and Ling Fang Fang all heard God’s call for them to serve the Penan children during their churches’ Thursday night prayer meetings!

We sent our first long term missionary to Ulu Belaga, sister Wong Hie Ching to go for cross-cultural training for few weeks at Macau in the first half of 2009. Then, she came home to polish her BM by some tuition. She went to Ulu Belaga in November, 2009 and followed by sisters Mandy Wong and Ling Fang Fang in December. Then, in January, we sent in sister Ting Sung Ngo.

Sister Ting Sung Ngo, a retired primary school principal, who heard the calling of God to serve the Penan children when the slides on appeal for missionarie were presented during one Sunday service. Rev Wong Kiu Ngok actually prayed for her response and she even approached sister Ting to go! She is a lay preacher of Zion Methodist Church, Sibu. SCAC board of evangelism put her as the person in-charge at Ulu Belaga. She trains the other 3 missionaries to teach.

At the point of writing, we are in the process of making arrangement to interview one sister Ruth Tan, from West Malaysia, Trinity Annual Conference, Grace Methodist Church, Petaling Jaya. Let us pray that she will also prove to be use by Jesus to bless the Penan children. She responded to God’s calling to serve the Penan children after reading the appeal for missionaries in the Pelita Methodist.

Missions through Education

At the moment, our 4 missionaries are teaching about 110 Penan chidren at Long Watt, and Long Singu. Among these children, 20 are from Long Luar and Long Tangau! They are willing to come by long boat to be taught by our missionaries! I see the hunger and desire and I hear the heart cry of these Penan children for education. And most important of all, for God, Jesus. Though our missions is in the area of education, we definitely do not preaching the gospel to them through christian songs and bible stories. In fact, our mission teams which go there monthly make it a point to preach the gospel in BM. They all the time say that they want Jesus! This was my experience when I preached to them.

Not only we help these Penan children and adults to come to know Jesus, we are praying that through our mission effort, we will stir up their desire to go to government school. And the parents will fee the need and security to entrust their children to the missionaries to bring them to the government school nearby, 2 to 3 hours away by timber truck. SCAC board of evangelism by then, will also mobilize resources to send them to school. Only God knows when are ready to go. No matter what, our missions there is for long term, by faith.

Let us pray that these Penan children who are so much behind, after receiving proper education, many of them will become capable disciples of Jesus and they will in turn bless their own people.

Long Term Development (vision)

God in the person of Jesus has put in hearts of the key leaders of Board Evangelism of SCAC to trust Him for a great ministry among the Ulu Belaga Penans.

(A). Eventually, as thousands of these Penans are resettled in a location or even if they are not resettled, we will make them disciples of Jesus and churches and related infrastructure will be set up for them.

(B). BM speaking pastors will be trained to shepheard them.

(C). Manpower like farming and agriculture specialists would go in as social workers to help them to establish a sytem of food production in the Penan ministry long term development.

(D). We help them to link up with the relevant government agencies to usher in all the necessary helps like the social welfare, skill training, etc.

(E). To see lots of Penan children entering local universities and eventually become pastors, missionaries and professionals in different fields of expertise.

What you can do for Ulu Belaga Penans now

In the name of Jesus Christ, I speak with conviction to ask you to stand up and make a difference for Jesus in the Penan missions.

I have visited the Penan long houses at Ulu Belaga for 5 times! God in the person of Jesus has shown lots of things and He put strong burden in my heart as I pray and serve the Penan people. For very strange reason, I am all the time attracted to Penan children. In fact, my ministry in the last 15 years, I must confess that I am never good at children ministry. However, I was always drawn to mix with Penan children and talked to them, touched them and loved them. Somehow, I just felt that the hope of a better future for Penans lies with the children. My burden is if our church can help them in the areas of education and spiritual needs, you will see a generation of very different Penan emerging in Ulu Belaga.

Are there down to earth souls (faithful disciples of Jesus) out there who dare to make sacrifices for Jesus and invest your life in the life of these Penans? You have everything you need in your comfort zone. You have a bright future. However, I speak with a heavy heart and tell you in the name of Jesus, the Penans have nothing! They have no future. I entered their rooms, they hardly had any belongings; not many people are coming forward to defend their rights as they are not equipped to do so; they are always oppressed in any way you name it; they should have all the land and yet now, they do not know how long they can still stay at their land, etc. They are so powerless. Most of them do not own identity cards and birth certificates. How can they enjoy all the social, medical, economic, political, educational benefits like us!

We need to appeal to you to be on your knees and humbly ask God to send missionaries to Ulu Belaga to serve the educational and spiritual needs of these Penans.

We need to exercise our gift of generosity to give towards supporting our missionaries’ salary. One missionary salary and allowance is about RM1,500 per month.

We need to join the short term mission trips organized by the SIPC to show care and concerns for our missionaries and the Penans at Ulu Belaga. You can give testimonies, tell bible stories, do social concerns work, teach the children to sing songs, play games with them, do health checks, teach on health and hygene, etc.

What is your response to Jesus when you see a mission need like?

Would you tell Jesus, your master, “Jesus, I will be there at Ulu Belaga, as you have expected me to be there”?

Would go to Ulu Belaga Penan long houses and meet Jesus there? I pray that you hear the calling loud and clear.

Rev Law Hui Seng

(Chairman of Board of Evangelism, SCAC

Email: ourgrace@streamyx.com

Tel: 012-8770303)

21st April, 2010

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends out there,

We need to treasure our relationship while we are together and we can see one another. Today is a sad day for me. A child of God, brother Jimmy Chan, only a few of us in GMC know him, he only in his early 30s and he died of heart failure Saturday at PJ. I visited him twice in Miri General Hospital before he left for PJ for further treatment upon the request of his sister there, I believe. He was discharged and readmitted. During the Easter on the 4th April, some of us who visited the ward 3, we were together praying for him. It is a shocking news to all of us. I helped my children to recall this brother. Few years ago, we were doing some shopping at the Miri street around Chinese New Year, we came across him, he gave my children few balloons. My children then, remembered him. Before his death, he was very depressed. Deep down in my heart, my 2 times of visit told me this guy needed lots of love but I could not give him the attention he needed. I could only quietly pray for him in my heart.

A Faithful disciple of Jesus,

Written by Pastor Law Hui Seng

Posted by Teresa Han

(18th April, 2010)

Dear brothers and sisters and friends of GMC,

Today (Aldersgate Sunday, remembering John Wesley’s renewed Spiritual life), my fellow pastor, Rev Thomas Lau preached on be “Holy and Happy.” I strongly believe that the expounding of the word of God by him was very impactful and majority of us must have realized the power of sin and how the grace of Jesus can forgive our past sins, regenerate us and set us free from the dominion of our past sins. Then, one should go on and live a holy life, where he or she should no longer yield to the sins and lusts.

I immediately applied one teaching coming from him in the morning. Over the dinner table, my twins had a conflict. Both of them were wrong. This time, I teach them to say “I am sorry to one another” and they should respond by saying, “I forgive you.” In the past, I just required them to say “sorry” which is not enough to make them realized that they were wrong. Now, with the emphasis I, it is powerful. I also feel that I must practice on my wife, my children and my brothers and sisters and on others.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law Hui Seng(11th April, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

Throughout this week, it was so filled with events that allowed me to serve Christ; I had the joy of our Lord Jesus Christ. Christ was really my motivation.
I spent about one and half hour with my younger daughter, Mercy, sitting down with her at Sugar Bun, chit-chatting with her and eating at the same time. She looked forward to be with me when her turn comes. Normally, every Monday, my off day, I always bring out one child to go somewhere he or she likes to spend time with me. The 3 younger ones always look forward to it.
Then, on Tuesday morning, Jessie Chan small group celebrated my 44th birthday for me. I see there are new people in this small group. Praise the Lord we are reaching people for Christ. Then, in the afternoon, I got Brother Keith to do a will for Uncle Samuel. On Wednesday morning, I visited Mary Tam’s small group. I met 2 non-Christians there. They even have separate class (Understanding Christian Belief) for them. Saturday afternoon was a very exciting and very meaningful time for me as I followed Tan Teck Chung to visit 5 poor families (Lutong and Tudan) and on behalf of the church, we gave out 10 kg of rice for each family. One widow said her husband was charmed to death, and I grasped the opportunity to tell them Jesus could protect them from the evil spirit. They agreed.
This afternoon, GMC program committee organizes an outreach to the hospital patients in view of Easter. About 60 persons from small groups and MJYF came. It was a great time gift distribution, praying for the sick and tracting (on Jesus). I am sure Jesus is please with us.Praise the Lord, we are all committed to Jesus.

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends out there,

Praise the Lord this week is a very fruitful week.

First and foremost, for the first time in my life I am able to visit an AIDS patient and her 2 very young children. Her husband left her. She is struggling to survive. Her days are numbered. I came to know her and visit her and I arranged for a couple who loves Jesus to be her good Samaritan. I actually prayed to God this year to give me a needy family so that I can do follow up and pray for. Through this case, I was told that lots of people in the long houses and rural areas have caught the disease AIDS. We need to help them. It just challenged me to include this campaign against AIDS during our mission trip to long houses. We will do that the next time.

Also, I visited a mandarin speaking lady group and came to know that 1 person would like to be baptized.

I received the good news that sister Ruth Tan of Grace Methodist Church, KL would like to apply as long term missionary at Ulu Belaga. It is God answered prayer. Once again I truly witnessed a case where a mission trip made such a difference to this lady. A response like this has greatly encouraged me to serve Jesus in the area of missions.

I pray that more brothers and sisters of GMC will reach out to the poor and needy people and help them to know Jesus and become His disciples. Let us pray for at least 10 persons from Miri to sign up for the basic sign language class so that they will use sign language to help the deaf and dumb of Miri to become disciples of Jesus.

God bless.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,

Pastor Law Hui Seng

(28th March, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han

Dear brothers and sisters of GMC and friends,

This week has been quite an eventful week for me. On Monday I did characters with my family members in the afternoon, then, I flew off to Sibu for the Long House Forum on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was stressful as I had to be careful with I said so that I did not offend and made promises which I could not fulfill especially among the indigenous pastors and lay people. Thank God we have our SCAC president and Bishop to guide us. The most fruitful result was we Chinese and indigenous people were able to sit down to understand one another’s struggle in terms of great shortage of manpower of pastor for SIAC side. On SCAC side, we now understand that we cannot push them and we should not impose our inspiration on them.

On Friday night I visited 3 small groups at brother James Wong’s house where they did Quiz Competition on the book of Matthew. On Saturday morning I prepared sermons messages for SMCGC, GMC for Sunday preaching and BB Christian Education class on Saturday afternoon. On Saturday night, I visited Mui Foon small group. It was a very tiring week but I felt I was empowered by the Holy Spirit to serve Christ.

Just now, after the church service, at 8.30pm, I conducted a one and half hour of pre-marital class. It was on love as the basis of marriage. The couple appreciated it very much. I was very encouraged.

All these while, I just feel that pastors are in great demand but we do not produce enough pastors to do the job. God is calling a lot to respond to Him to be His disciples but not many respond to His calling. I pray that God calls you to be His Disciples as you read my writings.

A faithful disciple of Jesus,
Pastor Law Hui Seng
(21st March, 2010)

Posted by Teresa Han