Table Of Contents:
- Church planting in Malaysia by the ‘natural way’
- Church-planting in the heart of Kuala Lumpur
- Church planting in Kuala Lumpur
- Church planting in the heart of Kuala Lumpur and other Asian cities
The little group of Filipinos were filling the living room of W and J’s condominium in downtown Kuala Lumpur each Sunday. These two lay-missionaries had stepped out in faith to plant a church in a “hard” part of the harvest-field in Asia and God had blessed their step of faith. So it was time to to look for a suitable place to rent for Sunday meetings.
A survey trip was done to the heart of KL – to the place near the central bus terminal where the buses from all over Malaysia converged.
I was shocked at what I saw. I had never seen so many people, from so many different countries hanging around the side-walks. There were hundreds of Indians on one street – milling around the shops selling things from India and things that Indians wanted to buy. Just across the street were hundreds of Myanmese– buying from shops catering to them. There were hundreds of Pakistanis on the next street, and hundreds of Nepalis in another part of town, and hundreds of Ibans from East Malaysia in a nearby concrete “park”, and small groups of Vietnamese, Nigerians, etc. everywhere.
I had been to crowded capitals in different continents and had seen crowded cities before but I had never seen so many people from so many different nationalities crowded into such a small area before. Most of them worked in and around KL and had come to buy their necessities, run their errands, meet their fellow-countrymen and basically to hang-out on their off day.
The harvest truly was plenteous! But were they ripe? A Filipina from our church in Singapore decided to share the Gospel in a crowded food-court right in the heart of this area. Before I could finish my lunch with an old Christian friend from KL in that same food-court, she came back to me and said “Pastor, eight people have trusted the Lord already!”
In this one square kilometer of concrete jungle, God had gathered a mini Asia! What were we waiting for?
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IM SILVY FROM ECUADOR
AND IM HAPPY YOU ARE SHARING THE GOSPEL THERE
BLESSINGS
from this post, we can see the Lord’s hand working for those who trust Him to do mighty things. Pray for this work to flourish further.