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Still Waters, Living Waters
by Jon I have completed my 6-month AgriTech course. It has been a wonderful experience and I thank God for the learning experience as well as my fellow students taking this course with me. During the final phase of our course, we have spent much of our time on an internship at a farm, learning how to cultivate…
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Updates from The Kongs – Apr to Sep ’21
These 6 months have been a really busy time for both of us (so much so that this newsletter has been long overdue!). Jon completed his 6-month full-time AgriTech course with a training institute in Singapore, being blessed that our home church caught our vision and saw God’s preparation for him in this season, allowing him to take…
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Avodah – Integrating service, work and worship
by Jon “Six days you shall work.” – Exodus 34:21 “This is what the Lord says: ‘Let my people go, so that they may worship me.’” – Exodus 8:1 “But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” – Joshua 24:15 As part of preparations for future missions, I have taken unpaid…
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Lessons from Making Bread
by Phoebe Ever since Jon got a bread machine for my birthday last June, I got started on my breadmaking journey. From making loaves entirely from the bread machine to shaping my own loaves, I am now experimenting with sourdough baking. I never imagined myself to be so fascinated by breadmaking – I began to…
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Updates from The Kongs – Oct to Dec ’20
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Celebrating Our Failures
by Jon But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness”. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weakness, so that Christ’s power may rest in me. – 2 Corinthians 12:10 As part of my Urban Agricultural diploma course, one of our course…
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Updates from The Kongs – Jul to Sep ’20
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Forced Rest
By Jon “Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you.” Deuteronomy 5:12 Like many parts of the world, Singapore is right now here in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. In order to curb community spread, our government imposed a soft-quarantine known as the “Circuit Breaker” in order to stop…
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Opening our Home – One Year On!
Our journey at a glance It’s been a year since we opened up our home to youths. Thus far, we have welcomed into our home five youths, boys and girls aged 18 to 22 from different backgrounds, most with mental health issues and without conducive homes to go back to. Before we got married, we…
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What will life after COVID-19 look like?
by Jon COVID-19. The biggest news that captured the entire world in a matter of weeks. In Singapore where no day goes by without updates on the news or social media on the global statistics of those infected or who died as a result of COVID-19. For some countries, governments institute tight measures to stem tides of…
Jon and Phoebe's thetomyumkongs journey. 