A
Letter to fellow Churches and concerned Christians
Dear Church Pastors and beloved Brothers and Sisters in
Christ,
Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ of
Nazareth.
It is
with great pleasure and joy for me to introduce our newly established and
relocated Independent Pentecostal Church, known as the Spring Valley Community Church, Bangkok, which was first set up in January 2013.
This Church is now relocated from a rented bungalow house in Lam Luk Ka to this
new rented 5 storey shop-lot at Saphan
Mai, located in a busier suburb just north
of metropolitan Bangkok.
I am the pastor
for this Church, serving together with my
wife, Jenny Ruth Kok.
I am a Malaysian. Before coming to Thailand in September
2007, I
have been serving as an independent voluntary missionary in several places in
Asia, including India,
China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Turkey. I was single then serving the Lord as a missionary
for couple of months.
Then I met Jenny, a Thai national in January 2008. We were married in April 2008 and
together we have since served the Lord, first in India,
then China and finally opting to serve in Thailand since 2010.
Our Church is
presently located at a very busy, strategic and prime location, as it is near a
bus stop (50m away), food stalls (10m), a private hospital (350m),a hypermarket
(400m) and day/night market (1km). There are 5 large universities quite close
to our Church; namely, North Bangkok
University (2.5km), Krirk University (2.9km), Phranakhon Rajabhat University
(3.2km), Sripatum University (5km) and Kasertsart University (6.8km). It is
also close to the Don Mueang International Airport (5km) and behind our building are some 10 blocks of Apartment
dwellings.
By now, we have
done some basic touch up and facelift renovations to the rented 5 story shop
lot premises, giving it a new life as a
welcoming church.
In our planning,
we intend to use the Ground Floor as a coffee/tea cafeteria for Christian
Fellowship. The Church and worship sanctuary will be located on the 1st floor,
the ministry training room on the 2nd floor, the pasonage on the 3rd floor, and a place for visiting missionaries on the 4rd
floor, even the rooftop on the 5th floor could
be used too (such as for getting a panoramic
view of the surrounding).
Of course our
main mission focus is to reach out to the local community (who are yet to know the Lord) and more so the
university students close to us to get them to
know Jesus Christ our Lord to place tracts and testimonies for them to read, to read the Gospel and His Word far and wide as He
has commanded us to do.
Since
establishing the Church, our Sunday Church Service in the previous house church
has an attendance of between 3 - 12 members with
most of them living quite far away from the church. We have also started a Cell Group every Wednesday evening with
an attendance of between 5 - 10 members.
We hope with this better location,
we will be able to reach out to a greater number and eventually to
welcome more into the Kingdom of God and in
time, with suitable resources to provide free tuition in language learning such as English, Malay and Chinese and other equipping to serve the Lord's purpose.
These are some
of of our visions for God's work waiting to be done. Alone
and with limited
resources, we can only do so much to realise
what God will entrust us.
We sincerely
feel that the present new premises which God has favored us with could be
more extensively used, So with this in mind, I am writing to you, Brothers
and Sisters in Christ, particularly Pastors of
Churches, to look into the opportunity and possibilty of working together with
us in this vision to do God’s work in this
corner of Bangkok.
Should you be
interested, we welcome you to write us and
even visit us in our new place. There is a lot
that can be explored and done together for the Lord such
as outreach to the students, evangelism with the local community, training in
language learning ministry, healing ministry and etc.
You can visit
our blog at http://faithwithyou.blogspot.com for more information.
I hope to hear
from you soon, please do not hesitate to
contact us for your ideas, assistance and etc, anything in furtherance of the Lord's work will be
most welcome.
Blessings,
Rev. Steve Peter H S Kok
Email : faithwithyou@gmail.com
