Editorial . . . Celebrating 10 years of partnership! That is what it has been. A decade of working together that has bonded the Senior Pastors of these 7 Churches of Penang Island into a tight-knit band of brothers with a purpose . . . the discipling of our nations beginning with our city!
It all started in the year 1999, at the turn of the century, and millennium too. Expectations were high for the return of Christ. Y2K was big news. Survival kits were being sold. Uncertainty as to the future was as thick as the clouds that sometimes envelope Penang Hill in cold nights! But some pastors got together to seek the Lord as to what He wants the churches to do, in a show of Christian unity, to impact the city at the beginning of the 3rd Millennium.
From this simple beginning of partnership in organising city-wide events, the Love Penang Network was formed at a subsequent 1st Penang Pastor Prayer Summit, from some of the churches that were involved in the planning of the Millennium Celebrations,.
CHANGES IN LPN LEADERSHIP
The LPN has an original team of 7 Senior Pastors with Ps Koe Choon Huan as the Chairman. Major changes in this team took place in the last 2 years but the partnership continues stronger than ever.
Ps Prem Kumar of FPBC has since gone home to the Lord in Dec 2006, In March 2007 Ps Lim Soon Hock moved on to pastor his old church, PJEFC in PJ. He remains an associate member of the LPN! In December 2007, Ps Albert resigned as Senior Pastor of FGA Centre and moved on to a new role in missions mobilising.
He was invited to remain in the LPN to facilitate their city transformation work, missions endeavours and community service projects.
The new LPN Ministry Team is listed in the right column.
THE FUTURE AHEAD
This leads us to the reason for LPN Newsletter!
In July 2008 the LPN Ministry Team had a planning camp where we had a major over-haul of our network. Today, we have five year plan for the transformation of the city.
Now we need to communicate our vision, mission statement, strategies and core values to our churches . . . hence, a monthly newsletter (plus other multi-media communication tools on the way!)
May the Lord bless you in 2009!
Doing Business Till He Comes,
Pastor Albert - LPN Facilitator for City Transformation
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