by Bethany Khng

The church family of Mount Calvary Baptist Church was ‘settling’ quite snugly and happily at the tuition centre at Bukit Batok. We entered into our third year in 1996. The Lord has been good to us. The attendance was encouraging with some regular visitors joining our fellowship. Although we were feeling the space constraint a little, the folks were willing to put up with the inconveniences and noise problems with the thin partitions could hardly be expected to keep out. We needed more room, but where to get a bigger place, considering the difficulty of getting an “approved” place for religious activities in Singapore? And with property prices escalating, how could a young church afford to pay for a building?

by Pastor John Khng

Praise the Lord that Mount Calvary Baptist Church finally owns the double-storey terrace house at No. 3 Lorong 25A Geylang, Singapore 388219. Our initial budget for a church building was $500,000 which could only buy an office space with a 99 year lease. We increased our budget to $700,000 after realising that the budget set was far too low. We prayed and scouted around for a suitable piece of property knowing that it would take a miracle from God to find a suitable place for our church in land scarce Singapore with a tightly controlled zoning law. These twin difficulties of cost and getting a change of use for a property to be used as a place of worship, have caused some preachers to give up the idea of planting any new church in our country.

by Pastor John Khng

“Remember his marvelous works that he hath done: his wonders, and the judgments of his mouth:” – Ps 105:5 

There were many blessings from the Lord in 1996. The first being the successful implementation of the Small Group System of Home Fellowship Prayer Meeting at Queenstown (Tuesday night) and Thomson (Wednesday night), the first group being led by the deacons and the second group being led by myself.