Milestones
1963: Early Beginnings
Personal work at the new satellite town of Queenstown started by Christians at Moulmein COC (among whom was our first minister Henry Kong). Weekly cottage meetings at Lam Teck Ming’s home at Queenstown.
1964: Founding Year
First worship conducted at the home of Sis Polly Lee. This is treated as the founding year of the Church.
1966: First Minister
Henry Kong becomes the first local full-time minister upon graduation from Four Seas Bible College.
1966: Move to Tanglin Halt
The church begins conducting worship services in a rented 2-storey HDB shop unit (47 Tanglin Halt Road #01-327).
1972: Beginning of Deaf Ministry
Deaf Ministry was started by Nancy Morris who helped convert our first Deaf member, a Bible Course student.
1973: Move to YWCA
The church begins worshiping at Outram YWCA on Sunday mornings.
1976: Beginning of the Chinese Ministry
Church started the Chinese Ministry to reach out to the parents of members, with the help of brothers Tan, Koon & Kwan from Serangoon COC.
1982: Danny Han added as ministerial staff
Danny Han was added to the ministerial staff.
1983: Blessing of Pasir Panjang property
The Lord blessed us with a freehold land at 347 Pasir Panjang which was purchased at S$1.2m, with the help of a USD 400k loan from Quailsprings COC.
1985: First Youth Camp
Inaugural Youth Camp started and continues to be held in December each year.
1985: Patrick Ong joins the ministry staff
Patrick Ong joined the ministry team to work specially with the Deaf community.
1988: First Missions Sunday
Annual Missions Sunday launched at our 24th anniversary.
1994: First Annual Church Camp
Annual Church Camps started.
2004: First elders and deacons
The first batch of 5 elders and 6 deacons was appointed.
2010: Beginning of SIBI Singapore
SIBI set up its satellite campus in Singapore, offering a 2-year degree program, using the Church premises as an in-house campus.
2014: Tan Beng Chuan joins the ministry staff
Tan Beng Chuan joined the church staff as Involvement Minister. Having served as an elder since 2004, he felt called to ministry to support the church while the search for younger ministers continued.
2017: Henry Kong retires
After 51 years of service to God’s kingdom, our first minister Henry Kong retires from full-time ministry at PPCOC.
2020: Beginning of COVID
In March 2020, Singapore announced its Circuit-Breaker measures, including the suspension of in-person worship services for religious organisations. This began a long journey of learning to worship and maintain community virtually.
2021: John Lim joins ministry staff
John Lim joins the ministry staff as Minister for Youth, Worship and Media upon graduation from Harding University.
2022: Rebuilding begins
The church enters a season of “wilderness wandering” as rebuilding work begins at 347 Pasir Panjang Road.
2022: Retirement of Barnabas Thng
Barnabas Thng retired after over thirty years each of faithful service to the Lord as building supervisor.
2022: Irvin Wan and Kyle Hooper join ministry staff
Brothers Irvin Wan and Kyle Hooper join the ministry staff as Lead Minister and Minister for Discipleship and Spiritual Formation respectively.
2022: Retirement of Tan Beng Chuan
Brother Beng Chuan retires from full-time ministry after 9 years as Involvement Minister.
2023: Retirement of Annie Cheng
Sister Annie Cheng retires after over thirty years of faithful service as church administrator.