4 Pivotal Decisions of Transfoming William's Next Generation!

In the Transformational Churches DVD, besides the 5 Principles, Pastor Ed Silvoso shared with us that there are 4 Pivotal Decisions that the North American Churches made to allow the transformation that took place. The 4 Decisions are:
1.Focus outward, not inward.
2.Pastor the lost, not just the found.
3.Be bold. Try new things.
4.Engage the enemy and expect success.


1.Focus outward, not inward.
I feel that if we want the Lord to transform William's Next Generation, we too need to make these Pivotal Decisions so that we can be used by the Lord to Build God's Families in our Neighborhood...

In order for us to build God's Families, we need to move out into the Marketplace, into our Neighborhood and start raising new Families of God. If we only focus inward, all we do is trying to strengthen those Families that has already been built. However we would not be building God's Families because all we do is maintain and strengthen the Familes that has already been built.

I felt I saw new light in this area and I am convinced that if we are serious in Building God's Families in our Neighborhood, we need to get out into the Neighborhood and truly start building Families.


2.Pastor the lost, not just the found.
I also felt that my heart as a Pastor has been revived. All these years, I have faithfully pastor those God has placed under my care in the fold. Those in William's Next Generation, I have watched over them together with my 12, and in the past, the Zone Supervisors. I have done to my best, disciple them, help them grow in the Lord, care for them and minister to them.

However, in these 2 weeks, I sense my Pastoral Calling has been revived where I felt the Lord tells me to pastor those in our Neighborhood even if they are not Christians. Suddenly my eyes open and saw that Jesus has always been ministering to the Lost in His Neighborhood and not just His disciples that followed Him around in those days...

I feel that I need to get out there, and pastor the teachers in the schools... I should minister to your friends, your classmates in your classes, your parents at home, etc., etc. Then I heard the Lord telling me, "William, I once look at the crowd out there and had compassion on them. Then I prayed to My Father and ask Him to send forth the Labourers. This was what happened... as recorded in Matt 9:35-10:1,

"Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
MT 10:1 He called his twelve disciples to him and gave them authority to drive out evil spirits and to heal every disease and sickness.""

I realise now that I need to call my 12 & my 144 and equip them and give them authority to send them out to their "towns & villages" to minister to the people in need. This is the way to Pastor the Lost!!! We need to raise everyone as Pastors in their Neighborhood, as Marketplace Ministers so that the Lost out there can be ministered to.


3.Be bold. Try new things.
Well, I am not sure what new things to try... I suggest we start doing prayer walk in our Neighborhood and let God show us what new things He would like us to try... But when you hear Him sharing ideas with you, putting suggestions into your mind, be bold to try it... I believe as you step out in faith, you will experience awesome results!!!


4.Engage the enemy and expect success.
Yes, indeed... Engage the enemy and take back territiories for the Lord. Let us move out to build God's Kingdom, God's Family in our Neighborhood.

Yours truly,
Bro William

How to Transform William's Next Generation?

Before we begin to transform our Neighborhood, we need to first transform ourselves... As I watch one of Pastor Ed Silvoso's DVD on Transformational Churches, North America, I felt so inspired by it that I believe if I can impart those same principles into the lives of God's People under my care, we will be able to be used by God to transform our Neighborhood.

Pastor Ed Silvoso shared with us 5 Principles behind these Transformational Churches as follows:
1.It is possible to change the spiritual climate over a city.
2.Marketplace ministers must be equipped and commissioned.
3.Ministry in the marketplace should be a lifestyle.
4.The river of God gets deeper the closer you get to the city.
5.A transformational church will always find favor with the city.

As I pondered over the 5 Principles, I believe we need to embrace these Principles seriously and put them into action. To do that, I have adapted these Principles into some suggestions that we can apply in William's Next Generation:

1.It is possible to change the spiritual climate over our Neighborhood!
We need to believe that we can change the Spiritual Climate where God has placed us in. For example, in the schools of our BB Coys, we can make a difference in changing the Spiritual Climate of the School. Like the churches in North America as shown in the DVD, we need to move out and start praying for the School, the different Classes, the various CCAs, the Security Guards, the Hawkers in the Canteen, the School Cleaners, the teachers, the people who are in authority. As we pray, I believe the Spiritual Climate can be changed.

The bible in 2 Chronicles 7:14,15 says this, "if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. "

Let's get organised and set up Prayer Gatherings in the Schools, in our Neighborhoods, or in our Offices, anywhere we sense that God would like to set up His Church in the Market Place. Let's set up Lighthouses all over our Neighborhoods so that the Light of God can shine to every corner of our Neighborhoods.


2.Marketplace ministers must be equipped and commissioned!
We need to sytematically get all our Marketplace Minsters to be equipped. We need to equip all our youths in the various institutions with the techniques of Prayer Evangelism. It is very simple, we just need to teach them how to Bless others, how to Fellowship with the people that they bless, and wait for opportunities to Minister to the People's Felt Needs. In terms of sharing the gospel, I believe many of them have been taught how to share John 3:16. I believe, what we need to guide them now is how Minister to People's Felt Needs and pray for them. So this 100K Blessing is a very good idea of how to bless others and pray for the people around us...

As we equip our youths to do Prayer Evangelism, we need to Commission them as Minister over their Schools, their Classes, their Communities so that they will rise up to minister to the people around them. To all the Youths in William's Next Generation, Arise and take Your place as Pastors over your Community, your Schools, your Neighborhood!!!


3.Ministry in the marketplace should be a lifestyle!
The next Principle which is of great significance is to make Ministry in the Marketplace a Lifestyle. Sometimes, I feel that we seemed to be living like spies in a foreign land... We behave so differently in church compared to when we are at the marketplace, in schools or at our workplaces. We need to begin to start our project meetings with a word of Prayer to God to grant us success with the projects that we are doing... We should start all our office meetings with a word of Prayer to God to bless us with fruiful meetings.

We need to be rise up to pray for the needs of the people around us so NATURALLY and expect God to meet those needs and deliver us from difficult situations that we are facing. Praying for one another, praying for our pre-believing friends need to become a norm in our lives. Let us rise up as Ministers in the Marketplace, as Pastors in our Neighborhood!!!


4.The river of God gets deeper the closer you get to the city!
There is a SECRET that God is revealing to us through Pastor Ed Silvoso. The more we move out into the Marketplace, the more we will see Signs and Wonders accompanying us as we minister to the people in our neighborhood. Go and test it for yourselves, do not just listen to me... As you move out to bless others and pray for them, you will see God at work out there in the Marketplace!!!


5.A transformational church will always find favor with the city!
Acts 2:46,47 says, "Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved."

As we become a Transformational Community, the William's Next Generation will find favor with our neighborhood. God has spoken, will you be part of His Family to bring His Glory to your Neighborhood?



God bless,
Bro William

Testimony 5:

3 Steps to Implement in Transforming our Neighborhood

In this coming 100K Campaign, let us take 3 Practical Steps to Implement what God is going to do among our Neighborhood:

1. Don't just Believe in God, Believe God
We need to rise up in faith and believe that God is going to use us to turn our neighborhood around. Each of us have 20 persons to bless, we may begin with our family members (those who are not christians), our classmates, our schoolmates, our colleagues, etc... All these people are our Neighbours in our Neighborhood. Having gone down the list of our immediate Neighbours, team together with other warriors to bless more people in our Neighborhood so that we become very VISIBLE in that locality.

As we start to use the 100K Prayer Pamphlet to bless our neighbour we will become the Ministers, the Pastors of our neighborhood because we are introducing God into that particular Neighborhood. The idea is to get our Warriors to become the LIGHT to shine with the hope of God in their Neighborhood . We need to become so VISIBLE among the people through this 100K Blessing where the people around us begin to look to us for prayer, for the supernatural solutions to the problems that they are facing...


2. Establish a Perimeter of Faith, no matter how small

When we become the LIGHT in our neighborhood, we would begin to establish a Perimeter of Faith... We must not let this season of the 100K Campaign slipped by without becoming VISIBLE in our family, our areas of work, our areas of studies!!! Imagine with me, after the 100K Campaign, many Perimeters of Faith or what we called, Spiritual Beachheads will begin to be establish in many many Neighborhoods.

No matter how small you may think all these Beachheads may be, it is a possible intrusions into our Neighborhood with the LIGHT of of God. Once we establish these Beacheads, we will begin to secure the Perimeter by Praying, by cleaning house in that perimeter, by gathering the people of common faith to rise up to own the Land. As a people of God, we will pray for the change of the Spiritual Climate of our Neighborhood.

Then we need to expand these Perimeters by doing good deeds among the people. Reach out and expand the base to the furthest that we can reach. When we expand enough, we will begin to infiltrate into the enemies territory and win people to Christ. We will need to destroy the works of the devil who try to blind the people, deceiving them with the lust of the world. We will discuss this more in the future about the Expanding of the Perimeter, Infiltrating into the enemies' perimeter and Destroying of the enemies' Perimeter.

Now we focus our energy in Establishing the Beachheads in our Neighborhoods through the 100K Campaign and securing them through Prayer.

3. Get Equipped & Equip Others
One of the major equipping that is needed is to quickly equip all our people with the concept of Prayer Evangelism. There are 4 main steps:
1. Bless
2. Fellowship
3. Minister to the Felt Needs
4. Proclaim the Gospel
In summary, the KEY word is PRAYER!!! This is the most beautiful of God's wisdom in this whole 100K Campaign. Through it all, we will catch a fire, a Passion to Pray like never before for the people around us. Surely, God will transform our Neighborhoods when we begin to lay hold of God with intercessions, fasting, tears, plea and cry for our Neighborhoods.


Your faithful servant,
Bro William

Transforming of our Neighborhood

I believe we are at the beginning of a new era in seeing our Neighborhood being transformed... In this 3rd phase of our year, it is time to Ask Big and see God's Mighty Transformation of our Nation. In Zechariah 9b, God says, "and I will remove the sin of this land in a single day." I believe the time has come for us to Ask Big of God and see God at work in a very Miraculous way...

I am greatly encouraged by Rev Ed Silvoso's teaching on how the Youths of this Generation can be used by God to transform their Neighborhood. As I listened to the teaching, I began to realise that the 100K Blessing Campaign is only the first Step of God coming to transform our Neighborhood. Through the 100K Blessing Campaign, our young people are going to be transformed into the Ministers in their Schools, their Neighborhood, their Campuses. So what are Rev Ed Silvoso Teachings:

5 Biblical Principles we need to Adopt
1. Have Faith, Act on It, Be Positive
We need to truly believe and act on their faith. We need to start moving out when we are prompted by God. The 100K Blessing Campaign is an example of us exercising our faith in moving out to bless 100,000 people. Do you believe we can bless 100,000 people?

2. See youth the way God sees them, see the Promise & not the Problem
In the midst of raising the warriors for the 100K Campaign, I feel that we have not raise enough youths to be warriors as we allow the youths to think that they cannot be warriors... It is not true. We need to believe in our youths and they need to believe in themselves where they are the Warriors that God want to raise up.

3. Youth are Marketplace Ministers
We need to see the Youths as Ministers in their campuses, in their schools, in their neighborhood. The Youths of today need to be bold and believe that they are Ministers, that they are Pastors in their respective classes, in their respective schools, in where they are. In our 100K Campaign, do we see ourselves just as someone who need to take the prayer pamphlet to bless someone; or do we see ourselves as a minister of God, as a lay pastor, sent by God to bring God's blessing?

4. Prayer is something that Young People can become Passionate about
We need to build the Passion of Praying among our Young People... They can become so passionate about prayer that they would totally depend on prayers in everything that they do... where prayer become a very big part of their lives... In this 100K Campaign, do we pray because this is the strategy of the 100K Campaign; or we truly believe in prayers and totally depend on God through the prayers that we make?

5. Youth need to have a Vision Bigger than Themselves
We need to help our youth to become dreamers for God. Like Joseph, we need to help our youths in believing in themselves that they can make a difference... not just in little things but in Important Matters. The 100K Campaign is more than just a program of FCBC for the month of July... The 100K Campaign is only the beginning of a Faith Building Process that God is using to bring FCBC into our Destiny.

With the above 5 Principles, we need to learn how to apply it in our lives... There are 4 Decisions we need to make:

1. Elders must support the youth whole-heartedly
I am convicted that we must support the youth fully in whatever they felt that God is prompting them to do. If I truly believe in them, then I must support them!!!

2. Pray Prayers that require Miracles
I am convicted that this is the season of Asking Big!!! Let's believe God forMiracles!!!

3. Students must take Spiritual Jurisdiction over their Campuses or Institutions
I am convicted that the way to go is to get the students themselves to become their Marketplace Ministers and take ownership of their Classes, their Schools, their Neighborhood.

4. Get Moving First, Organise Later
Let's catch what the Holy Spirit is doing and fan the fire of God higher of what God is going to do among our youths in this season of the 100K Campaign.


Rev Ed Silvoso also gave us 3 Practical Steps to Implement. They are:
1. Don't just Believe in God, Believe God
2. Establish a Perimeter of Faith, no matter how small
3. Get Equipped & Equip Others

I will take some time to think through and implement the 3 Practical Steps as we move into the 100K Campaign in a few days time...



God bless,
Bro William