BPCIS Update: Crowning the Year

“You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance.” Psalm 65.11 NIV

As we complete the 14^th year of BPCIS, we have much for which to thank and praise God. 

In 14 years, BPCIS has ordained 15 men for the ministry of teaching God’s Word and shepherding God’s people, including 3 ordained this year. 

This year, we have a record 99 pastors and leaders at the annual Leaders Retreat, including a delegation from Perth, Australia.

For the first time, a dozen of us met for an Envisioning Exercise, seeking God and His will for the decade ahead, 2025-35. (August 2035 will mark the 100^th Anniversary of John Sung Revival in Singapore.)

Though still a work in progress, an Endowment Fund was mooted and later fleshed out. When in place, its investment returns will go to help smaller churches engage pastoral and admin staff. 

This year, we witness the “twinning” of 3 pairs of BPCIS churches. In the sharing of resources, we work together in the revitalising of weaker churches. 

LOOKING AHEAD

^“Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, ‘Thus far the Lord has helped us.’” I Sam 7.12 NIV

The message of Ebenezer takes us back to the past, but does not stay there. It points us to the future. As the Lord has helped us in the past, He will continue to do so into the future.

After two years of centralised Good Friday Services, next year will see combined English services decentralised in 3 locations: West, Central and East (3 April). They will be hosted by Mount Carmel, Zion Bishan and Shalom respectively. 

The Chinese services will be decentralised to their individual churches. With the favour of the authorities, we will meet again at McRitchie Reservoir for our Easter Sunrise Service (5 April). 

Our Leaders Retreat (7-8 July) will be special as we will have our own speakers, three of them, each from a different generation. 

Finally, our Annual Presbytery Meeting (19 September) will be a Thanksgiving Service for our 15^th Anniversary. We have commissioned a video to be done of how BPCIS began in 2011, some two decades after the BP Synod was dissolved in 1988.

“Let the favour of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!” Psalm 90.17 ESV

Pastor David Wong, 
General Secretary, BPCIS 

Postscript: Visit our BPCIS website (bpcis.org.sg) where our churches are taking turn to share testimonies, updates and stories from their leaders and members.