Happy 20th Anniversary City Harvest, my dearest home church!
Last Sun, we had an anniversary service at Indoor for almost 6 hours and it din feel that long at all! I loved every minute of it! I teared many times during the service, so moved in my heart for all the things God has brought us through as a church.
I remember I first stepped into City Harvest at the tender age of 15 years old. And that moment changed the rest of my life! That very service I felt God’s strong tangible presence for the very first time.. He whispered to me “Em, I love you, I really do…” and I opened my heart to His reality in my life.
Through the years, as I grew up in the church, was baptised in the Holy Spirit and spoke in tongues, grew in spiritual disciplines of prayer and knowing His Word, joined a cellgroup and started serving His house through ministry, tithed, gave, sacrificed… I just wanted one thing which was to love Him with all my life.
I remembered those younger days where I would go to Powerhouse to pray and just cry out to God.. to tell Him that I wanted to build Him a great house.
And looking at how City Harvest has grown and transformed, I would say it is now a “great house” with “greater things yet to be done”! I really thank God that I am part of this house!
Pastor Kong posted his anniversary message on his website, check it out! Some quotes below:
In the end, that is what City Harvest is all about―a place where dreams are realized and success is celebrated. This is our place and moment in history: to demonstrate a growing church that is passionate for Jesus, yet relevant to society, caring for the broken and marginalized. A church with a “holy worldliness.” That means holy disciplines that make us the people of God, but a worldly sophistication that makes us relatable to the world.
On this 20th Anniversary, why don’t we make a decision to love Him back even more every single day? Shall we do that? Shall we, once again, live to love Him more each day?
It was so apt that at the end of everything, it was not about how magnificent our church gets, but how much more we love Him each day!
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