How God Brought Me Back

After I started working, I lost touch with church for many years. Then one night, as I was going to sleep, I felt a hunger to seek the Lord again. I prayed, I think I cried, and I asked God to show me a church that was right for me.

Not long after, a lady in my office (she called me Chow) invited me to hear a visiting speaker at her church. I told her I hadn’t been to church in years. She said, “Never mind. Just come and see.”

So I went. The meeting was at the Grand Pacific, I think, and the speaker was a visiting pastor from Australia. The sermon touched my heart. I felt it was time to come back, and that God had sent someone to bring me back to church. From that day on, I went to NCC every week.

NCC started at Damai, I think, then moved to Sentul Boulevard a few years later. All these years I’ve helped out, especially with renovations and moving the church. I’ve known people like Kelvin and Eddie since they were young and unmarried. Now they’re fathers, and their children are so big already.

I’ve watched the church grow since Pastor Elisha and Sister Petrina started Harvest Centre (now known as Dignity for Children Foundation). They love the children so much. Back then the area was squatter settlements and railway quarters, and we visited families there and brought them to church. Once I saw Sister Petrina washing the hair of a little girl whose hair was full of lice. That really touched me.

Pastor Elisha worked so hard building up Harvest Centre. His heart is for his people, his sheep. Even at 2 or 3 in the morning, he’s sending out devotional messages. I wonder whether he sleeps at all.

So I encourage you to come and see for yourself what a close family this church has become. And to the next generation: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (Proverbs 3:5-6)

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Submitted by Richard