Our Church Move to The Star!

This Sunday, New Creation Church will be having our very first Christmas service at the building we co-owned with a private company. This majestic building is called 'The Star' and its design look like an ark. It is located at Buona Vista. It boasts of three levels of retail space owned by the private company and a 5000-seat theatre owned by our church. This project started in 2007 when Pastor Prince announced that our church was awarded the bid to develop this piece of land. Our church has been at The Rock for 13 years, since 1999. It was a rented auditorium and we saw many signs and wonders happening at The Rock. But God wanted to give us more...He wanted us to have a building that we can call our own...hence He put the desire in Pastor's heart to search for a new place.

We had our last service at the Rock auditorium last week and as the video clips of what the place meant to different people, as well as the sermon clips of Pastor at The Rock made me feel a little sentimental about that place. I remembered when we first stepped into The Rock in Nov 2008, in that service, we heard about the ground-breaking ceremony that took place the day before. Then we realized that this church is moving to some place in the future. I believe that God brought us to NCC for times like this. It carries great significance to us because we witnessed the beginning and the end of this church building project. Besides, we also had a stake in this new church home because we had sown into this building.

Pastor told us that the Lord revealed to him why He called the auditorium 'The Rock' and the new church building 'The Star'. The Lord said because our church had been founded on the solid rock of the foundation of Christ all these years, He is catapulting us to the star. The rock is symbolic of a low and hard place, even though we had witnessed many miracles and been fed so well by the gospel of grace at The Rock, the truth is we had not seen anything yet. God is bringing us to the star, to high grounds, to the heavenly realms. God wants us to shine brightly like a star - to shine for Jesus! I don't know about the rest but I am really excited about this move!

Since July 2012, our church has been preparing for the move. My excitement already started months ago. The sense of excitement is palpable as we wait with abated breath for the moment we step into God's 'promised land' for us. We felt like the children of Israel, after 40 years of wandering in the desert, we are finally standing on the verge of destiny. The emotion is overwhelming. We are gathered by the side of River Jordan and looking hopefully into the land God had promised us. As we prepare to cross over, we pause for a moment. It is a journey that we have not experienced...we have not come this way before. But one thing is certain: God is with us and that would be more than enough for us to step out into the river, for the experience of a lifetime. We are crossing a significant milestone in our church history and we have never gone this way before.

It is clearly a new chapter for our church as we cross over to The Star this Sunday. I sense that a new order is emerging. A new era, not just a season. It is a time of open heavens, divine interventions,  signs, wonders, miracles and manifestation of God's glory. There is so much angelic activity in the spiritual realm, just that we could not see it. The old has passed away, the new has come. Pastor told us that our church's humble beginnings started in 1989 in a HDB flat at Holland Drive, near to where the new building stands. It is certainly no coincidence that this flat was demolished because of an en-bloc sale. The flat was torn down to make way for the new developments. In the spiritual sense, it was like God telling us that the past is no more. Behold, He is doing a new thing...now it springs forth! He wants us to keep our eyes focused on the new things that He is already doing. Our family is all ready to attend the very first service at The Star...we are so eager to worship God in this building. Praise God for our future is going to be more glorious than our past!