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President’s Message: A Christmas & New Year Message

Paraphrased from Ps Wilson and Ps Lai Ling’s message for December 2025. For more, click the video above to watch them share their heart on our YouTube channel.

Gather around everyone, for Christmas is right around the corner! It’s always a joyful season as we begin to prepare for the celebration of Christ, the greatest gift unto us. Life is filled with decorations, carols, as joy and laughter rings around the halls of our churches and homes. It is often a time we catch ourselves reminiscing, thinking of how 2025 seems to have moved on so fast for many of us. But amidst this hustle and bustle, Ps Wilson and Ps Lai Ling would like to remind us again of the true meaning of Christmas.

The Story behind Christmas

As we all know, the Christmas story is one of wonder and awe. Jesus made his entrance into this world as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords in the form of a little child. However, his purpose was not small, for it was to be the Saviour of all mankind. What does that really mean? It means that He didn’t just come for some stranger, He came for us! He came for our families! He came for our friends, our collegues, and everyone around us! The greatest gift known to man is specifically sent for you! And all of this was to ensure that we may experience a life abundant, with the freedom from the power of sin. So that we can all experience the grace of God as we life a life supernaturally enabled by the Holy Spirit.

A Wonderful Motivation

Now, with such a wonderful gift presented unto us, a gift that keeps overflowing, isn’t it perfect to be shared to those around us? Ps Wilson speaks about how this wonderful gift of Jesus in our lives should motivate us to share Him, so that we can reach out with God’s love! That this gift will motivate us to pray unceasingly for the many souls that are desperately in need of Christ in this Christmas season. So this year, as we go about our many church activities and events, let us continue to look to God for an oppurtunity to touch lives, to transform the lives of those we encounter.

Wrapping Up with Thanks

With that in mind, this is also the time for thankfulness, as we wrap up this year to take our first steps into 2026. Let’s take some time to refresh ourselves and reflect on God’s many goodness throughout the year. Let us count our blessings, think of all the times where God was there for us, even if we did not see it in the moment. Truly He is a God who has never left us, nor forsaken us. So as we enter 2026, let us walk in with the hope of a fresh insight, a renewed drive and a strengthened faith for even greater things!

Looking forward with Hope

In line with that, Ps Lai Ling encourages us to all start the year with HIM Global Fast and Prayer, which will take place from 12-15 January 2026. Come gather as a family on Facebook live at 9:30pm (GMT+10 Brisbane) so that we can start the year the right way, with God as the focus. This would be a wonderful time to gather your life group, your friends, to pray and seek the face of God together, so that we may all be strengthened to saturate for the purposes of God!

Another major event that we will be starting 2026 with is the Global Leadership Conference 2026 (GLC26) that will take place in Bangkok, Thailand this time around. Many of the leaders from HIM churches across the globe will be gathering for an exciting time of equipment and renewing friendships across generations and borders. So let us keep the attendees in prayer for a time of encounter as they seek the Lord. Cover the conference and our leaders in prayer so that they are able to be renewed and refreshed with this conference, so that they can do even greater things for God in the coming year.

Ps Wilson and Ps Lai Ling wrap up this message with a note, that they are looking forward to seeing all of you in different ways from now and throughout 2026. And from all of us in HIM, we would like to wish you a blessed Christmas, and a wonderful New Year 2026! God bless!

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Ps Brendan Kirby

Brendan and Helen Kirby are the founding pastors of Hope Church in Adelaide. Brendan became a Christian in 1984, and joined Hope Melbourne in 1991. In the 80’s Brendan trained in physics at The University Of Melbourne, and graduated with a PhD in 1989. Since then he has worked as a post doctoral fellow and research scientist for about 23 years in various government research organizations. He married Helen in 1994, and in early 1998 they moved to Adelaide plant the Hope Church together while they both were working. He resigned his job as a research scientist for the Australian Defence in 2012 to work full time as a pastor.  Brendan is passionate about building and planting churches, and oversees churches in Perth, West Africa, Central Africa and India.

Ps Lance Wolter

Ps Lance & Belle were married in 2006 while pioneering Hope Church Gold Coast. As time went on they began to also become more and more involved helping with other churches in Australia and missional work (especially in Africa). In late 2018, they both took a leap of faith and relocated to Southern Africa to help churches in that region to become more fruitful in discipleship and the multiplication of churches. They are currently serving over 180 churches in Southern and Eastern Africa as well as churches in Gold Coast, New South Wales and ACT (Australia). Lance and Belle are passionate about pioneering community empowerment and social justice projects for the poorest of the poor. The family is also blessed with two beautiful children, Michael and Hadessah.

Ps Chaiyapruck Pewruangnont

Pastor Chaiyapruck Pewruangnont came to know Jesus Christ in 1988 at Hope of Bangkok church when he was a high school student. After he graduated with a Bachelor Degree of Architechure from KMITL Bangkok, he was trained and sent out to be the pastor of Hope of Hatyai church in 1996. He then moved to be a regional pastor at Hope Nakornrachasima and oversaw the North East region of Thailand. In 2000, he moved to Hope Bangkok church to join the pastoral team and oversaw the North region of Bangkok. In 2002, he moved back to Hatyai again and oversaw the Southern and North East of Thailand. He is currently the Vice President of HIM Thailand. Pastor Chaiyapruck is married to Pastor Patcharee. They have 2 daughters.

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Ps Prakich Treetasayuth

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Ps Kwong Lie Ong

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Ps Simon Eng

Pastor Simon Eng is a Civil Engineer by training. He has been ministering for over 30 years. His experiences include pioneering Hope Kuching, mentoring leaders and pastors, and ministering in cross-cultural Regional Conferences. Pastor Simon is married to Pastor Lai Eng and they have 3 wonderful children, who are active in their faith as well. Pastor Simon is currently serving as the Senior Pastor of Hope Kuala Lumpur and an Elder in Hope International Ministries. He loves to build God’s people and travels extensively to minister and care for God’s churches.

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Ps Wilson Lim

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