About
Us
Win Souls,
Make Disciples
Plant Churches
Hope Church Kuching began small, but with a global vision, in March 1992. The first Sunday service was a group of six people who met in the living room of a house.
Pastor Simon Eng led this new church plant, believing that God’s command of the Great Commission is for every believer and that God’s key instrument to bless the world is through His Church.
Meeting together, building relationships, and living out a covenantal love relationship were all part of the lives of the young community of believers. This was vital as the quality of the church truly depends on the quality of every member’s commitment to the Great Commandment – to love God, and to love one another in reality.
A three-fold emphasis of winning souls, making disciples, and planting churches guided the church focus.
The church began to grow larger, with the addition of different language ministries. In time, new church planting work began in different towns in Sarawak and Sabah.
Through it all, we can testify to God’s guiding hand and encouraging support as we faithfully and wholeheartedly gave our lives to fulfilling God’s vision. God has been faithful and he will continue to be faithful to His promises! To God be the glory!
Fulfilling the Great Commission by raising Christ-centred disciples to plant vibrant, biblical churches in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia and all over the world.
我们的异象
为完成耶稣基督的大使命,在古晋、砂拉越、马来西亚以及世界各地,兴起以基督为中心的门徒,去建立从满活力及合乎圣经真理的教会。
Visi Gereja (BM)
Mengenapi Amanat Agung dengan membangun jemaat yang memusatkan Kristus untuk menubuhkan gereja-gereja yang hidup dan Alkitabiah di Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia dan di seluruh dunia.
Visi Gerija (Iban)
Ngamatka Jaku Pesan Tuhan Jesus ti pemadu besai nengah ngenirika anembiak gerija ti bepemunka Kristus lalu ngenirika gerija-gerija ti idup enggau bepanggai ba Bup Kudus ba Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia enggau ba serata dunya.
We are Christ-centred, Holy Spirit empowered, Bible based and a covenantal people; a life-enriching community, who are vision driven disciple makers, leadership trainers and church planters who belong to an apostolic movement.
These values inspire our actions and keep us on course:
Christ-Centred
We believe Christ is central to who we are and what we do. This applies to each believer and the church as a whole. All that we are and all that we do is for His glory. We are committed to helping our members develop an intimate and meaningful relationship with Christ through prayer; a relationship that leads to hope, purpose and fulfilment. We emphasise the importance of submission to His Lordship under which members discover the awesome impact of letting God and His will be our first priority. As we live out our Christian life as God intends, we become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.
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Colossians 1:17, Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 4:13, Philippians 3:10, Matthew 6:33
Holy Spirit Empowered
We believe in the importance of being Spirit-filled and Spirit-led. We emphasise reliance on the Holy Spirit in every facet of our personal and church life. It is through the God’s Spirit that life transformation occurs and every spiritual gift mentioned in God’s Word can be and should be manifested today. Thus, we encourage every member to experience the fullness of the Holy Spirit and be empowered to expand His kingdom. It is also the Holy Spirit that reveals Christ to us and leads us.
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Zechariah 4:6, Acts 1:8, Galatians 5:16-18, Romans 12:6-8, 1 Corinthians 12
Bible Based
We believe our faith and practice as Christians is founded and built upon biblical principles. We emphasise expository preaching and balanced comprehensive teaching so that our members may understand, live out and mature in the Christian life as God intended. Anointed expository preaching allows God’s Word to be expounded in a balanced and complete manner within its proper context to bring about life transformation. We are committed to developing a wide range of relevant teaching programmes to meet the needs of the members in the areas of Bible knowledge, Christian living and ministry.
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2 Timothy 3:16-17, Nehemiah 8:8, 2 Timothy 2:15, James 1:22
Covenantal Relationships
We believe that God is a covenantal God. He seeks people who are committed to Him and His purpose, and with one another. We believe an appropriate response to God’s covenant involves loving, honouring and worshipping Him above all else. This flows from our belief that God is the Supreme Creator and has planned all things in His good will. God is love and He desires to form an eternal family among whom He will dwell. We seek to develop covenantal relationships among believers through committing to love and build up one another. We are committed to forgive one another, resolve differences and reconcile relationships resulting in a deeper bond in unity.
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Genesis 1:1, Daniel 10:21, Ephesians 1:3-10, Hebrews 1:1-4, Revelation 5:1-5, 10:1-7, Exodus 20:3, Psalm 96:9, 1 John 4:13-21, Revelation 21:1-7, Matthew 6:9-13
Enriching Community Life
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Galatians 6:2, 10, Acts 2:42-46
Vision Driven
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Proverbs 29:18, Habakkuk 2:2, Matthew 28:19-20, Isaiah 2:2
Disciple Making
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Matthew 28:18-20, Romans 8:29, 1 Corinthians 11:1, Hebrews 13:17
Leadership Development
We believe that every Christ follower has leadership potential. We are committed to helping every member discover and realise this potential for God’s glory. To this end, we place a high priority in inspiring, equipping and empowering every member to effectively undertake the work of the ministry as well as grow in leadership. We also seek to develop whole generations of dedicated, sacrificial and godly leaders for world-changing ministry.
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Matthew 9:37-38, Ephesians 4:11-13, Hebrews 13:20-21, Matthew 11:12
Church Planting
We are committed to help every person experience the privilege of a life-changing personal relationship under the Lordship of Jesus. As part of this, we are committed to empowering members to share their faith and impact their communities. We believe that every believer has a part to play in world-missions. We also believe the church is God’s key vehicle to expand His kingdom. Therefore, our world-missions strategy is to plant vibrant biblical churches in every nation of the world that will permeate through their entire nation by multiplying local churches. The intention of every church is to reach their community, nation and every ethnic group of the world.
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Isaiah 52:7, Luke 4:18-19, Ephesians 3:10
Apostolic Oriented
An apostolic movement incorporating the five-fold ministry is God’s plan for the end-time Church. We believe that apostolic movements are a critical component of the new structures God is establishing in His Church to contain the new things that God is outpouring. Thus, we seek to function in the fullness of the five-fold ministries and to raise whole generations of five-fold ministers.
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Ephesians 2:19-22, 3:2-6, 4:11-13
Our statement of faith and the essentials we believe:
Bible
We believe in every word of the Old and New Testaments as originally given, and that God inspired humans to write it without error. The Bible is the Word of God. It is the absolute truth and therefore is the standard of faith as well as the ultimate handbook for every aspect in a believer’s life.
God
We believe in the one true and eternal God, the Creator of everything. God is one but exists in three persons: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Though they are co-equal, coexistent and co-eternal, they play different roles in human history, working together in creation, revelation, redemption and the final judgment.
Jesus Christ
We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was supernaturally conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary. Whilst on earth, He was both perfectly God and perfectly man at the same time, and was without sin. He was crucified on the cross and physically rose from the dead on the third day to fulfil the will of the Father to provide salvation from sin to those who believe in Him. He ascended physically to heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. One day in the future, He will come again to establish His kingdom.
The Holy Spirit
We believe that all the gifts of the Holy Spirit mentioned in the Bible remain in the Church today and should be fully exercised to build up the Body of Christ. The baptism of the Holy Spirit, an experience distinct from repentance and faith in Jesus for salvation, enables Christians to testify of Christ in the power of the Spirit. Speaking in tongues is the normal initial sign of being baptised in the Holy Spirit.
In the Christian life, every believer must live in obedience to Christ and be under the covering of the Holy Spirit. Christians should always be filled with the Spirit.
Angels, Satan & God's Plan
Man
Salvation
The Church
We believe that the church is the community of God’s people and central to God’s plan of salvation. Once we become Christians, we are adopted into God’s family and become part of the Universal Church, made up of Christians of every age. Local churches are made up of believers who regularly meet together in different localities to worship, listen to the Word of God, fellowship, witness, participate in communion, pray and have other activities together. We believe that every Christian should be committed to a local church.
Eternal Judgment
We believe that the dead will be raised and everyone will have to give account before God. All those who have put their faith in God will receive their reward and live eternally with God in heaven. On the Day of Judgment the remainder will be judged and receive eternal punishment in hell.
Baptism & Communion
Communion is for Christians to remember Jesus by partaking of bread and wine as symbols of the flesh and blood of Jesus and the covenant God has made to bring salvation through faith in Christ. It is practiced in obedience to the command of Jesus and can be celebrated as often as believers gather together until Jesus returns.
Worship
Some of these expressions of worship include worshipping with other Christians, using musical instruments, singing and exercising the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Healing
We believe it is normally God’s will for all mankind to be whole and healthy both physically and spiritually. The Church is vested with the authority of Jesus Christ to bring a ministry of healing in every possible way that is both through the power of God and through medical knowledge and expertise as part of the manifestation of the love of God for all mankind which God desires to bring through His church.
We are a part of a global family called Hope International Ministries (HIM). Today, we are in over 600 locations in over 50 countries across the world.