28 April's Encounter with God during Service

During past week's service, Pastor shared with the church about Sun's crossover into the entertainment industry. I remember those days when it first started as I was there to witness and experience those moments myself.

During those times, I saw how the Pastor, Sun and other members of the church was attacked by people, especially the media, posting untrue things about Sun and the church. However, she continued, stayed strong and carry on doing God's call onto her life. Pastor Kong and Sun held onto God's vision really strongly. Time and again they were attacked and each time, they overcome the temptations and attacks and emerge a victory every time.

As I watched through the different videos, saw the different pictures, they all showcased and brought back memories to me. Seeing them also has shown to me how awesome of an impact that through Sun, God has blessed so many lives and many has been saved. Really thank God for using Sun, making use of her God-given gift to bless and inspire many.


I also saw my life as a video as well. I saw my whole journey of my life in Australia. I'm really thankful for God in my life during those days where day to day living was based on nothing but purely by the grace of God.

Just when I thought to myself how great God was to me during those days as those days reminded me how much I needed God's grace to be in my life. During last week's service. God spoke to me during service last Saturday. 

During Service as Pastor Kong speaks, I began to feel a strong spiritual excitement in me. I began to have visions of myself Bartending. I saw myself mixing drinks in the bar. I saw myself in 399 Bar working together with the team, serving customers and we were all happily smiling =)



I saw myself travelling to different parts of the world, every continent, making drinks, bringing glory to God's name. By the grace of God, I did way beyond I imagined myself to be doing.


He told me that everything that has happened the past few years even until today, is a preparation phase for me. He is trying to mould me and prepare me for a higher purpose in my life. As he spoke, flashbacks came to me of myself in the past.


It was of me sharing my F&B dream to everyone when I first entered the industry at a young age of 16. I was young but at that time, I had really big dreams. I wanted to open training establishments in Singapore. I wanted to raise a new generation of people and send them out into the industry in Singapore as well as around the world to tell the world that there is still hope for genuine service and hope for the industry. Hospitality industry is one that is extremely messy. It has one of the highest suicide rates as depression rate is high, it is really common to smoke, reliance on alcohol or even doing drugs. It is extremely normal to have casual sex within the workplace just because there is a need to have sex at that time. I feel that such a beautiful industry like this truly needs God.  I believe that God is going to use me as a vessel to reach out to these people and bless them.

God wants everyone to have a future in Him. So do how much I want people to have a future in God as well. I want to give a "future" to people who feels that there is no more hope in this world. I want to impart them a skill as well as knowledge. I am a human and I will die one day. I want my skills and knowledge to be passed down to the next generation and I am extremely determined to train up a new generation of F&B personnel that is going to change Hospitality Industry in Singapore. It will no longer be a pinoy or cheena affair, but a Singaporean affair.

I can see myself going into boys and girls home, meeting the homeless, the broken, gangsters, people who are suicidal and even the rich or people who are born with a silver soon, working with me. To some, I was their mentor, while to some, I was like a family, their father, brother or even their friend. I will make them work for me and when the time is right, I will set them out to the fields, send them overseas, sponsor them with education.

I will open bars and restaurants at different areas, reaching out and target different age groups, social status and even culture. I will provide the best possible service for them and let them enjoy products that they have never seen before.

But before that, God showed me a really dark and narrow pathway. It was the path that is ahead of me, one that I will have to walk before all these happens. I saw myself back in 399 Bar after I ORD. I was trained as a bartender there. I saw myself at another part of the world, doing the same thing. The road was really tough and lonely, but God was always there with me. But ultimately, I saw myself back in Singapore, i stood out of the gate after I took my luggage. Everyone was there and there was a huge banner saying "WELCOME HOME BEN". It was a really heart warming feeling that I know that the best is actually yet to be.

I'm really looking forward to the future. I can't wait to see what's ahead for me. Although it's going to be really tough, where day to day living will be on nothing but purely under the grace of God, I will trust and obey.

I suppose, it's about time?