We were privileged to be invited to Mr. Goh’s Birthday dinner at the Dragon Restaurant on Saturday 3rd October. There were 15 tables and three were reserved for Salvation Army folk. My wife and I were honoured to be seated at the main table with his immediate family. We have known him for about 60 years. We were pastors of Central Corps (church) from 1970-1974 and again in retirement for a short spell of three months in 1997. Because our long association with him, his family specially requested that I should give a short message and pray a special prayer for him and his family.
Mr. Goh came alone from China to Singapore before the war when he was only 15 years old. He later moved to Penang where he met The Salvation Army, became a Christian and was enrolled as a Salvationist by Adjutant Frederick Harvey the pioneering officer of Penang Corps.
After the fall of Malaya to the Japanese, he was conscripted to work as a mechanic on the infamous Death Railway or Thailand-Burmah Railway where 16,000 Allied prisoners of war died.
Goh Seow Kiang later returned to Singapore and worked for many years with Singapore Cold Storage.
Goh Seow Kiang and his daughter Christine attend the Singapore Central Corps (church) every Sunday morning rain or shine except when he is away on his visit to the land of his birth – China or when he is sick which is rare.
We thank God for such a faithful soldier of Jesus Christ and The Salvation Army. He must be one of the longest serving Salvationists in this territory.
At 90 years of age, he is still strong and this month will be making another trip to China to see his younger brother and family. God bless the Goh family.
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