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Download PDF File WE OFFER UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS including actuarial science, finance and engineering. of Messiah College’s Class 98% of 2016 were employed full-time or in graduate school 6-9 months after graduation. #55 “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs” in the U.S. SOURCE: 2017 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLEGE RANKINGS Real-world creativity Messiah students forge strong connections between theory and practice, learn to innovate and implement, MC admissions counselor: and receive an education they can put to use in the Veronica Yap phone: +60 12 2312316 world, not just later, but right away. email: [email protected] web: messiah.edu See what becomes possible when imagination empowers email: [email protected] discipline as Messiah students see anew. phone: +1-717-691-6000 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA sharpening intellect deepening christian faith inspiring action Undergraduate students: 2,759 • Student/Faculty ratio: 12:1 • 100% of students receive financial aid Athletics: 23 NCAA Division III sports • Majors: 85+ • Study abroad: 40+ locations WE OFFER UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS including actuarial science, finance and engineering. of Messiah College’s Class 98% of 2016 were employed full-time or in graduate school 6-9 months after graduation. #55 “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs” in the U.S. SOURCE: 2017 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT COLLEGE RANKINGS Real-world creativity Messiah students forge strong connections between theory and practice, learn to innovate and implement, MC admissions counselor: and receive an education they can put to use in the Veronica Yap phone: +60 12 2312316 world, not just later, but right away. email: [email protected] web: messiah.edu See what becomes possible when imagination empowers email: [email protected] discipline as Messiah students see anew. phone: +1-717-691-6000 Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, USA sharpening intellect deepening christian faith inspiring action Undergraduate students: 2,759 • Student/Faculty ratio: 12:1 • 100% of students receive financial aid Athletics: 23 NCAA Division III sports • Majors: 85+ • Study abroad: 40+ locations Editor’s NOTE EDITOR Ms Ong Juat Heng ADVISORS Pastor Dr Chew Weng Chee • Rev. Loh Soon Choy Pastor Dato' Dr Daniel Ho • Dr Chong Kwong Tek here’s a Japanese proverb that says, “In time, even the LEGAL ADVISOR Mr Steven Fung strongest wind tires itself out, but the bamboo remains standing tall and still.” Bamboos have the remarkable FINANCE AND ADMIN MANAGER quality of resilience that can withstand the storm. They Ms Cheng Suet Lai T EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN below. That’sare strong why we’veand yet chosen �lexible, them bending to grace and our swaying cover. to the Mr Tan Yoke Tee mightyWe dedicateforces, with this their issue trunks to the �irmlymany resilientrooted in people the ground who HON SECRETARY have and are still encountering storms in their lives and have Mr Patrick Leong remained standing, people like Susanna Koh and her children HON TREASURER whose husband/father Pastor Raymond Koh was abducted a Ms Loke Che Ching year ago and is still missing. Some, like Dr Timothy William, COMMITTEE MEMBERS Mr Danny Cheah • Mr Andrew Tan Yih Full • Mr Goh Chee Beng Like them, we need to develop resilience if we are to face adversitieshave even �lourished without snapping, from their for failures. disappointments, distress PUBLISHER Persaudaraan Asian Beacon Malaysia - An inter-denominational Christian magazine, Asian Beacon is published age us to get rooted in God, His Word and His family, so that four times a year by Persaudaraan Asian Beacon, a non-profit and dif�iculties are inevitable in life. May their stories encour Christian society. when the storm strikes, we will stand. http://www.facebook.com/AsianBeacon • Website: While on the subject of resilience, let’s talk about depres- www.asianbeacon.org sion, a “D” (dirty) word for some Christians. How can Chris- PERSAUDARAAN ASIAN BEACON MALAYSIA tians get depressed?!! No, we should be living victorious 19-C, Jalan SS22/19, Damansara Jaya, 47400 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia Tel: (603) 7725 4109 • Fax: (603) 7726 1740 • Hp: 012-3931 453 those without hope, people like Robin Williams, Linkin Park’s Email: [email protected] ChesterChristian and lives, SHINee’s �illed with Jonghyun, the joy all of whothe Lord. committed Depression suicide. is for PERTH REPRESENTATIVE Why would people who have everything take their lives? Tek and Goldie Chong - Email: [email protected] I had a glimpse of depression when some years ago, I would DESIGN & LAYOUT Jaqueline Yong ghastly gloom. I was on the verge of seeing a psychiatrist when 016-2030380 awake every night from my �itful sleep feeling dark dread and PRINTER after the worship service, I pulled her aside and unloaded my Thumbprints UTD SDN BHD mindmy husband on her. suggestedAfter hearing talking the longto Hera and �irst. short So, of one it, she Sunday said, Lot 24 Jalan RP 3, Rawang Perdana, Industrial Estate, 48000 Rawang, Selangor. Tel: (603) 6092 9809 www.thumbprints.com.my saw one and the birds have been chirping since. You see, my problem“Juat, you was need a hormonalto see a gynaecologist.” one and was more Boom! easily The nextresolved. day, I CONTRIBUTIONS The opinions and views expressed by writers and advertisers are not What about the others? Be sure to read Hera’s take on this necessarily those of the publisher. Contributors are welcomed to monstrous issue. contact us for editorial guidelines. However, we assume no responsibil- ity to return unsolicited materials. Kindly include your email, postal At the start of this new year, and to borrow the phrase from address and telephone number when you send articles, photographs or letters to us. LORD be with you. We at Asian Beacon also wish you Happy PERMISSION FOR REPRINT Valentine’sStar Wars, which Day, Happy must haveChinese copied New the Year phrase and with from the us, generalMay the Copyright Reserved © 2017. Please contact the editor for permission election around the corner, Happy Voting. to reprint articles, photographs and illustrations. Cover design by Patrick Leong 4 ASIANBEACON.ORG 50#1 January-March 2018 CONTENTS January – 2018 Vol. 50#1 6 March 16 10 34 14 20 4 Editor’s Note ISSUES COVER STORY 26 Drowning In Depression 6 Missing Pastor Raymond Koh 28 Your Vote Is Useless 10 Kampung Boy Makes Global Impact MISSIONS 13 Thank God For Failures 30 Fishing For Stars 14 Epic Woman 16 Broken Dreams REGULAR FEATURE 32 Dear Goldie – Priest At Work 34 Malaysia’s Got Talent 18 Is God On The Streets? 37 Rooftop Principle 20 Beauty, Brains & Obedience 38 Let Go And Let God 22 Safe To Speak 40 Bolster Your Strength, Boost Your Courage 24 Once Upon A Time 25 Romancing The Cynics ASIANBEACON.ORG 50#1 January-March 2018 5 Cover Story videos,” said Esther. Their persistence paid tered to me. Worshipping God in songs “spiritually prepared” as he had been helped me focus on Him and not the doing prayer walks and memorising Raymond was abducted, when they problem.” chunks of Scripture passages. “We have obtainedoff on Feb. from 18, a 2017,house �iveowner days a CCTVafter For the perky Elizabeth, 21, the initial come to accept the situation. At our coun- video that captured the abduction. months were the lowest point of her life as selling sessions, we were advised to do Susanna was stunned when she saw she was also dealing with some personal normal things, like go back to cooking and the video2. “I couldn’t breathe. It had never issues. “There was so much happening in hobbies, and live as normally as possible.” occurred to me that he could be abducted. my life then and I tried to remember what For Esther, the quieter one, she has Arrested yes, but not abducted,” she said. Dad had told me before,” she said. learned to surrender everything to God (Harapan Komuniti had received at least “I remembered one sermon that he after the initial months of pain when she one death threat in the past.) preached two years ago, about Jesus sleep- kept crying out to God to save her father. The video immediately went viral, ing in the boat when the storm hit and His Her breakthrough came one day as she disciples were crying out to Him. Oh wait… was driving home. “I was listening to a Esther, who couldn’t bring herself to watch I think it was the sermon on the Great song about oceans and crying out to God. I itviewed until several by many months all over later. the world except Commission,” she said, to much laughter asked Him, ‘Is there hope?’,” she said, and from us. “He preached a lot of sermons, so stopped to compose herself. “Then, some- Divine strength thing hit me. I felt God telling me, ‘All this Susanna maintained they are just ordinary “Whatever it is, they all boil down to while you’ve seen the way your dad lives folks but this is no ordinary event. At the theI can promises get them of mixed God andup,” sheour continued.trust in Him when he helped the poor and needy. Did time of their interview with Asian Beacon, no matter what happens. Putting the boat you see hope for them?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ God Loving couple… Susanna and Raymond doing a dance Raymond had been missing for 296 days. incident and the Great Commission replied, ‘Then, there’s hope in this situa- How have they coped? together, it’s knowing that Jesus will be tion.’ At that moment, I felt His deep assur- at Esther’s wedding in September 2016. “Only by the Lord’s grace can we stand there for us to the very end of age. When I ance.” strong,” she replied and quoted 2 Cor.
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