Saturday, June 3, 2017

Keswick Convention

Reminiscing - the good old days.

In the 1970’s when I was the General Secretary of the The Salvation Army Singapore/Malaysia Command, I was very much involved w...ith the National Council of churches, the Evangelical Fellowship of Singapore, Bible Society of Singapore etc and the Keswick Convention Committee which organized meetings annually. I worked together with Dr. Benjamin Chew, Rev. Alfred Yeo, Rev Prahbu Das and others to plan these annual meetings. Those were the days!

Keswick began in 1875 by an Anglican Vicar and a Quaker layman who invited Christian friends to come together for quiet time with God. The purpose was simple and clear – it was to enable believers to seek God’s will for their lives and what provision God had made for them to fulfil that will.
Speakers such as Alan Redpath, Stuart Briscoe, Philip Teng and other evangelical preachers were invited to be our speakers. The convention drew crowds. I had the privilege of leading some of the meetings. O those were the days.

Keswick is one of the lovliest parts of England in the English Lake district.

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