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Pastor Ben KC Lee

Pastor Dinah Lee

Pastor Jeffrey Chong

Pastor Lawrence Ong

Pastor Ben KC Lee

Ben was born in Borneo. He came to know Christ at a young age through the influence of his mom. Shortly later his parents sent him to boarding school in Singapore. He spent eight years here before doing university in Perth, Australia. It was here he first became friends with Dinah, Charmaine, Johanes and Lawrence. After Perth, Ben started his professional career with a 'Big Four' accountancy firm in Singapore. He also tutored accountancy part-time in the Singapore Polytechnic.

17th February 1991 was the start of the dream to build the global city-church. The first worship service started with Ben, Dinah and three other people in a friend’s apartment. Ben and Dinah got married the following year and the twins arrived four years later. The family enjoys swimming, reading and vacation time with Ben’s family of origin.

Ben considers it a privilege to serve the local church. His life vision is to fulfill the Great Commission out of Singapore, convinced Singapore is a unique nexus for church planting to reach the farthest ends of the world. This vision takes him and his wife around the world where they have trained pastors and tentmakers on five continents. They have sometimes been described as offshore missionaries.

Ben serves as lead pastor. A CPA turned pastor, Ben has been quoted as saying, "I used to count money but now I count sheep". Ben is founder and president of a non-profit community organisation. He also serves in the Executive Committee of the Singapore Centre for Evangelism and Missions. In addition he serves as coordinator for the Hope International churches in Southern and Eastern Africa, the Americas, as well as Hope International’s coordinator for Church Growth and for Missions.

He has served in the Executive Committee in the National Council of Churches in Singapore. He has also served as coordinator for Hope International churches in Europe.

His blog 'Perspectives' can be found at http://benkclee.blogspot.com

group family Pastor Dinah Lee

Dinah came to know Christ at a young age encountering persecution for her faith. Later she did a degree in public relations and journalism in Australia. Upon graduation, she began a career in public relations consultancy.

Interestingly, just before graduation she received a prophecy that she will marry a pastor. That she did without realising it!

Dinah was one of the original five in the first worship service in 1991. Members remember her active involvement in missions despite being heavily pregnant with twins.

In her own right, she pioneered our community ministry in 1996. She has led family ministries where she also developed our first marriage preparation course. In 2001 she led our first ever mega Carnival at the Park – a church building fund project that saw the mobilisation of more than 1,500 members and friends. The event also attracted TV and press coverage.

Currently, besides looking after two growing kids and a busy husband, she ministers with him in Singapore and overseas. She also leads our Operations Division. Dinah has the gift of teaching, administration and moves in the prophetic when ministering to individuals.

Dinah enjoys the outdoors – away from the built-up urban environment.

Pastor Jeffrey Chong

Jeff first visited Hope Singapore in February 1992. Coming from a nominal Christian background, he came to know Christ in a personal way here. He has since brought his dad and mom to know Christ personally.

Previously, he was involved in pioneering our Youth service. He has also served as Missions Manager and in our Mandarin service. Presently, he leads our Pastoral Division and is directly overseeing close to 800 people in our Adults ministry.

Jeff is married to Claudia who serves on staff as manager of both Events Support and Social Enterprise Departments.

Jeff graduated with an Engineering degree from the Nanyang Technological University before joining the Policy Owner Service Department in AIA. He resigned to study full-time in our Bible college after which he joined our church staff. Jeff is regularly invited to conduct behavioural analysis training for large companies and learning institutions.

He is a gifted preacher with a good sense of humour and his other passion is soccer. His blog 'X2024' can be found at http://jeffchong.blogspot.com

group family Pastor Lawrence Ong

Lawrence has been with Hope Singapore since coming to Singapore from his home in Australia in 1991. He has been extensively involved in pastoral ministry beginning with the Polytechnic ministry.

In 1993, he and team spearheaded missions work in Melaka, Malaysia. This culminated in a seed church being pioneered that is still growing. His heart for missions has led him to minister in churches in Australia, South Africa and South America.

Lawrence was also instrumental in establishing our worship ministry. Today he is the Deputy Director of our Equipping Division and directly oversees our Event Programming and Community Ministry. His ministry is marked with a prophetic dimension.

He also serves on the Central Committee of the Evangelical Fellowship of Singapore (EFOS) and the Board of Hope Centre (S), a non-profit organisation dedicated to empowering youth to build caring communities.

He is married to Pat, a dentist who serves fully with him. Lawrence holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy) from Perth. Before joining the church staff, he worked as a senior physiotherapist in a local hospital and also in private practice.

Lawrence enjoys playing the flute, saxophone and a variety of outdoor sports.