PASTOR SIMON ENG MESSAGE

Dear HIM family.

I greet you in the wonderful name of the Lord Jesus Christ and hope you have a happy and blessed 2011. In the month of January, we had our Global Conference (GC) which was held at Chiang Mai, Thailand. More than 150 international leaders and pastors in our HIM family along with 100 of our Thai leaders and pastors joined together at GC. All in all, we had 250 who came, shared together, prayed together and to be ministered to together.

We had our teaching on passion. We want to continue to dwell into how we can keep passion in our lives, ministries and being able to passionately serve God all the days of our lives. We were also blessed to have Pastor Bill Wilson from New York. He has ministered to hundreds and thousands of children all over the world, in particular in New York. He challenged us to be passionate in our ministries through his own life example.

Brothers and sisters, we have an exciting year ahead. At the Global Conference, we also launched our five year strategic plan and shared it with our people. I recall roughly about two years ago when I shared about initiatives we wanted to implement in our HIM family. At the time, I talked about the 4 Ms: Mission thrust, developing Ministries, Maturing our churches and Management. As I think about this further now, these 4 Ms are linked in with the Strategic Plan. We have 6 Priorities and 16 Initiatives. We are excited as we launch ourselves forward for the next five years: 2011-2015. We will embark on these 6 major priorities which will transform us and it is going to lead us in the future as well.

Six Strategic Priorities for our strategic plan from 2011 – 2015 are for HIM to progress:

1. From Variable to Consistently Healthy Churches
2. From a Largely Asian Church Planting Movement (CPM) to a Global CPM
3. From Basic to Missional Christian Education
4. From Developing to Fully-functioning Five-fold Ministry and Leadership
5. From Basic to Professional Management
6. From Exclusivity to Kingdom Partnerships
   

We have also identified 16 key initiatives, or projects to support the six Strategic Priorities above.

The Catalyse Launch Message

Brothers and sisters, I do not want to spend too much time dwelling in the details; your pastors and leaders will be able to share with you further about these initiatives and priorities. We are very excited about them; many of our global pastors and leaders came together and discussed about these priorities and initiatives and how to move HIM forward. As your president, as your brother and as your leader, I want to passionately move HIM forward. I want to lead in these initiatives and priorities. I want to be able to work with the pastors and leaders throughout our regions of the world. I want to be able to really see a transformation in our HIM family. I am excited about it; our pastors are excited about it. I am looking forward to continually see year by the year the transformation that will happen in HIM.

I am focusing on Joseph in the Bible. God gave him the dream, God gave him also the wisdom and God gave him the discernment to lead his people and Egypt into prosperity and prepared them for the famine as well. I want us in HIM to be prepared so we can prepare our people for the time of prosperity and also for the challenging times to come. Brothers and sisters, continue to pray for our movement as we start 2011. Continue to uphold each one of your pastors in prayer and support as well. We have exciting things coming up for the years to come.

May God give you a fruitful year. May God continue to lead us through this five-year window. May God continue to grant us many fruitful years ahead. God bless you; til next time I communicate with you. Amen.

Pastor Simon Eng
President of HIM
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