Category: Ministry
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Final Month at GracePoint
Dear church and friends, it’s hard to believe that it is August already. We’re closer to the start of 2025 than we are to the beginning of 2024. And it is my final month at GracePoint. There are so many mixed feelings. But one of the dominant emotions is gratitude. I’m grateful for the past…
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The Well Church
Dear friends, I wrote a post last month about our departure from GracePoint. I’d love to thank so many of you for your well wishes and warm encouragement – both from within and outside of the church. Those of you who’ve had to change churches understand the tension of grief and excitement well. There is…
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Thinking about Asian-Australian Ministry Leadership
I think that second and third generation Asian Australians are uniquely positioned to serve as future ministers of our churches and leaders of our organisations/institutions. None of these points are particularly new. But I’ve felt them in a fresh way in just the last few weeks. I’m writing particularly to 2nd and 3rd gen Asian…
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Ruth 1 – Do we believe that God has the best plan for us?
Our church just finished our 7-week series on the “Seven Lies of Culture”. It was lots of fun. But it is also good to get back into the Bible. It’s not that our 7-week series of Bible-less or unbiblical. But I miss working my way through the Bible; line by line, verse by verse, and…
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The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast
Have you been listening to The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast? If not, I want to commend it to you. I’m struggling to know exactly why I’m commending it to you because I’m still processing a lot of what I’ve been listening to. On the one hand, it tells the story of the…
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Lessons from Malaysia: Partnership through Proclamation
Sherilyn and I have had the privilege of spending a short week serving in and observing all the great things that God is doing in Malaysia. Our trip started off with a Sunday at City Discipleship Presbyterian Church – Puchong where I had the privilege to preach from 1 Peter 1, and it was remarkably…
Elliot Ku 