Henry and Dawn Lee
The Lord led their paths to meet at BFC in 1999 and exchanged their marriage vows in 2003. The Lees now serve the Lord in BFC in their respective area of callings; Henry serves in the Chinese Ministry, the Beach Road Ministry, and occasionally provides English to Chinese/Cantonese translation of sermons. Dawn serves in the music ministry singing in the choir and plays the piano in worship services. The Lord provides for them through their professions: Henry supervises a team of engineers designing semiconductor test products with Everett Charles Technologies, while Dawn is a manager with the DBS Bank and has been in the banking & finance line for over 7 years.
Besides spending time with the nuts & bolts of engineering, Henry has two passionate C’s in his life: Cycling and Coffee. Unlike her husband, Dawn does not cycle avidly but shares a common interest in coffee. Whenever time allows, they like to take long walks, just talking and scouting for cafés that serve good coffee. They also like to travel to experience different cultures, cuisines, and, of course…coffee!
Our Testimonies: Jehovah Jireh, The Lord Provides
Henry: I was baptized in 1992 while studying in Canada and have been attending church and serving in various areas ever since. I sang in the church choir, did interpretation of sermons, but at the same time, also played guitar in a Christian band. No one ever corrected me even when my band churned out several rock renditions of Christian music in evangelical meetings. My spiritual life then was to pray for inspiration for amazing guitar solos to impress the lost. Obviously I lived in defeat and was in constant struggle with loving the things of the world. When asked why I believed, I would say that through my logical analysis, Christianity is the religion that makes the most sense. I could not even utter how Jesus loves me and that I need Him to save me!
After graduating in 1996 and working in Malaysia for 2 years, I settled in Singapore. I was invited to BFC in 1999 by Auntie Fong Meng, a family friend. Through sound doctrine and teachings of the church, I destroyed my secular music CD collections, and stopped using pirated software. I started serving in BFC but found it was a real drag as I felt it ate up too much of my private time. But what I noticed was if I did not have to serve in a particular week, I would spend probably in total about 1 minute with God that week and all of it just before meals. So I kept on serving despite the bareness of my spirit, knowing that if I stop serving totally, I would surely fall away. I was really discouraged and almost started to think that this was as good as my life in Christ gets; it was just a matter of enduring it the best I can.
All that changed when God showed me that a victorious life is not only possible, but IS the normal Christian life! Galatians 2:20, “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.�? Praise my Lord for that revelation! I remember I once asked Pastor Chris years ago if it was alright to skip church because I had bicycle races on Sunday. He did not give a straight yes or no, but just said I would know. And yes, Pastor, I do know now.
Dawn: When I was young, I was introduced to church by my Uncle, Amos Lai, through children camps. Every Sunday, he will faithfully remind me (and my sister Joann) to attend, though many a time, we would drag ourselves away from our Sunday morning cartoons on TV to avoid anymore nagging. During camps, I would raise my hand every time there was a call of salvation. I basically had little understanding of who Jesus really was. It was only at the age of 14, when my grandma passed away that I realized that this life of Christianity required full surrendering. I will never forget listening to my grandma’s whispers in Hokkien when she prayed to God each night for the lives & salvation of my uncles and aunties. It was only now that I realize that, like Timothy, I also had a Christian heritage of a faithful grand-ma, and, more importantly, that this God she worshipped is real. I want to thank God for the faithfulness of my Sunday School teachers like Sis Hwee Theng, Sis Joy, Sis Daisy and my Aunt Maggi for following up with me. Yet, more importantly, to God who really provides – a life that He promised to be abundant, a life with a real purpose and a husband to love Him more. Jeremiah 33:3, ‘Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.’
Because I was saved at a young age, I never remembered the joy of salvation that many others had and was tormented I had missed my chance since I could never turn back the clock. Yet the Lord is faithful again, just as His promise that if we seek, we will surely find Him. I discovered this from realizing the journey of this abundant life He has given – a life that requires our full surrender, our total dependence, a life that is yielded in His spirit. Our recent journey to Rome, Italy, witnessing the sites of Christian history as well as the sites where Apostles Peter & Paul were martyred, had made me see how great & real God really is. This proclamation transcends more than a mere verbal claim that ‘we are Christians’ but rather, that we have a new life in Christ through the Spirit. Ultimately, I want to have truly ‘tasted and see that God is good’ in my life – Oh Jesus we have promised, to serve Thee to the end. Be thou forever near us, our Master and our Friend.