Mr. Goh Seow Kiang is 93 years old this year. He left China in 1940 for Malaya and met The Salvation Army in Penang. He got converted, became a Salvationist when Adjutant Frederick and Mrs. Harvey were the pioneering Corps officers (pastors) During the war years he came to Singapore and has remained here ever since.
He went back to China, got married and brought his wife to Singapore. They raised up a family. When we were Corps officers we visited them regularly. She accepted the Lord shortly before she was promoted to Glory.
Mr. Goh has been attending regularly Central Corps at Bishan with his daughter Christina. Mr Goh does not speak a lot of English, but he has remained faithful serving the Lord. He has a wonderful testimony which encourages those whom he meets.
He shares an HDB flat with his unmarried daughter Christina at Tanglin Halt, but now spends most the time with his youngest daughter Karen at Hillview Heights just across the road from where we live. Karen and her family are Methodists, beautiful Christians loving the serving the Lord and take very active part at the Fairfield Methodist Church.
As it is still within the fifteen day period designated as Chinese New Year, I called on him to pay my respects for the festive season. We had a good time together as we recalled old times.
He spends the morning having his quiet time and does his exercise or watch television. The daughter has a Filipino maid to see to the house. The maid cooks lunch of porridge for him before he leaves for his afternoon fellowship with his friends in China town.
It's always a joy to see people who keep their faith and maintain their allegiance to the same church for years. Today we seem to get a generation of people who go church shopping and hopping or as one comrade put it - on auto roam! When they don't like the pastor or have a misunderstanding with someone, would leave the church and join another one. We thank God for many faithful salvationists who have sunk their roots deep in Christ and in the church they belong.
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