“Faith Has To Be Experienced”: Joesen Francis Wong found God through a painful encounter and is now discovering the joy of serving

by Mag Ho | Feb 11, 2021

It all began with an ear infection. Having seen the doctor and taken medication without much improvement, I muttered one night, “Dear Lord, if you can take away this pain, I will follow you, I will trust you and I will go to your Church.” The infection gradually took...

Second Chances that Changed Him From Being A Sunday Catholic: Nicholas Chee

by Mag Ho | Feb 7, 2021

I became a ‘Sunday Catholic’ when I started work. I was far from God and my faith life was just attending Sunday mass until my mid-40s. Life was comfortable, my family was happy and my children were growing up fine. I was paid fairly well in my corporate work in the...

Christopher Wong used to serve for all the wrong reasons until he attended his first Prayer Experience Retreat

by Mag Ho | Dec 19, 2020

Up till 4 years ago, I had served the Church for all the wrong reasons. As a cradle Catholic, I took my faith for granted. As a teen, I followed what my church friends did, which is to join the Altar Servers so that we could play football and meet girls from the...

“Fullness of life comes from being with God and His people”: this revelation came to Sharen Goh, not through a spiritual manifestation, but through a gradual awakening in a time of grace

by Mag Ho | Dec 15, 2020

Life didn’t feel “full” at all while I was busy with my career and achieving good progress. There was something that seemed missing. I felt restless and was in search of more meaning to life. I was drawn to seek and was trying to uncover what Jesus meant when He said...

“We have but one single response – Lord, we are yours”: Tyrone & Girlie Velasquez’s encounters of the Lord and their daily cooperation to His will give them the strength and joy to journey with families and women going through pain

by Vincent Chee | Dec 7, 2020

Tyrone and I see ourselves as sinners who were given a second chance, strengthened by our encounters with the Lord to give more in whatever service we are called to. Our journeys began in the Philippines where I was raised in a poor family with a dark past.  My...