Partners

Partner, Speaker: Dr. Shirley Low

Shirley’s interest is in enabling young people to mature into individuals who lead emotionally enriched and meaningful lives, and who have lifelong skills to stay strong in the face of adversities. With over 16 years of experience in both the public and private sector, and having worked with adolescents, young adults and those significant to them, she believes that attachment and especially positive parent-child relationships are key foundations that help children become healthy, happy and emotionally resilient individuals. While she enjoys working with young people and helping them grow positively, she also wants to help parents raise confident kids, grow strong bonds with their children and develop secure relationships with them. Shirley’s range of experiences had given her an understanding of individuals from diverse background and who have had to face adversity and stress. This has impacted on her desire to change this around for individuals and families, helping them build supportive and positive relationships with each other and overcoming what they might have missed earlier in life. Her professional journey has thus, led her to focus on working with young people and their families in enriching their lives.

Partner: Dream Village Cricket Academy (DVCA)

Dream Village Cricket Academy or known as DVCA was founded with the aim to build sustainable communities by improving quality of life through sports development and social development. In line with this vision, DVCA runs cricket development programmes for urban poor community children that comes low-cost around Subang Jaya, Orang Asli children and Indian community children. DVCA aims to run sustainable cricket development programmes to produce best talents for the nation’s cricketing future.

Speaker: Chandreshan

When Chan was 19 years old, doctors told him he would never be able to run again. At that point he made a decision to rediscover his purpose as an athlete. After 18 long months, he had the opportunity to join back into the national cricket team, but he did not. He was driven by the process of improving people and changing lives. Cricket saved his life and inspired him out of poverty. At the age of 21, he began his coaching career in DVCA recognizing that his purpose is to impact the next generation and to give them a pathway through sports. Chan now runs cricket development programs for children from marginalized communities and runs various sports initiatives to build communities. Come and network with him on how we can use sports to create a movement and change lives through sports using community and collaboration.

Partner: Dream Village Football Academy (DVFA)

We believe every young person has a unique story and we aspire to inspire our young talents to build great stories and live their fullest potential. DVFA is the dream destination and grassroots development for boys and girls, aged 6 – 14 years old, who have interest in learning to play football as well as those who are keen to pursue a career in football. DVFA also reaches out and raise young people who would dare to dream of better future for themselves and the community in and around them through our after-school sports program and community engagements to unearth talents and helping them to nurture their dreams.

Speaker: Albert Low

Albert Low is known for his passion towards football and bringing cheer through football to everyone. Started playing football as a young boy and his passion grew leading him to play for football clubs such Hongchin FC and Ambank Spick in his career. He managed to organize and lead the home team in DVFA’s major football tournament, Dream Cup and also led 15 boys from urban poor communities to a Dream Football Tour. Albert believes that sports are for everyone and he has gone the extra mile bringing football to those can’t afford it. He brings the heart and passion for people through football. Come hear of more powerful stories and tips on how you also can grow passionate in sports and reaching the world through sports!

Partner: Evangelism Explosion

Evangelism Explosion is a ministry that trains people how to share their faith in Christ and how to bring people from unbelief to belief. It utilizes a variety of components including prayer, actual on-the-job training where the experienced lead the inexperienced, and the principle of spiritual multiplication. Spiritual multiplication through discipleship is the key component, not just winning people to the Lord one-by-one (addition); but training those won to the Lord to win, and then train, others. In the Book of Acts we read that the disciples “multiplied” and “multiplied exceedingly.” This shift from addition to spiritual multiplication offers the one real hope of sharing the Gospel with a world population that is, itself, continually multiplying.

On-the-job training is another vital ingredient. By actually going out with experienced trainers in real life witnessing situations, people learn how to share their faith. Much like learning to fly an airplane would be impossible without actually getting in the cockpit, evangelism is difficult without leaving the confines of a classroom.

By learning small parts of the Gospel, each week, including Bible verses and illustrations, people incrementally grasp a Gospel tool that becomes a lifelong mission.

Speaker: Yuen-Woh Voon

Yuen Woh is Evangelism Explosion (EE) International Vice-President for the Asia Continent. Currently he is also serving as the National Director of EE in Malaysia.

He is one of the pioneer leaders of Full Gospel Tabernacle (FGT) in Malaysia and has been engaged in pioneering new churches and developing leadership for those churches.

Prior to coming out into full-time Christian ministry in 1990, he had served as financial controller in an international accounting firm. He holds qualifications in accountancy, insurance, and theology.

He is married to Swee Leng and they have 3 adult daughters.

Speaker: Mei Lin Siew

Mei Lin has been serving the Lord in full time ministry as an Implementation Advisor with Evangelism Explosion Malaysia (EE) since 2016. She conducts and facilitates EE training in both English and Malay languages. She is a lawyer by training and has has a 21-year career in the corporate sector and legal profession prior to joining EE. She also did theological studies at Tung Ling Seminary (Certificate of Ministry) and with Mattersey Hall Graduate School, United Kingdom (Master of Theology in Practical Theology).

Mei Lin was a 2-year old baby Christian when she first participated in EE training and tasted its joy at her local church back in 2004. Since then, the Lord has never failed to amaze and delight each time she stepped out in faith and in obedience to the Great Commission. Her life mission is to love God and love others (God’s 2 Greatest Commandments), and to teach others to love God and love others – and she sees this being achieved through her ministry work at EE.

Partner: Explain International

Explain International (EX) was birthed out from the passion and the need to engage the culture with the Gospel. EX aims to facilitate a movement of the Gospel by equipping the church to accurately articulate and defend the Christian faith.

Speaker: Samuel Nesan

Samuel is a co-founder of Explain International based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He is currently pursuing his PhD with a concentration in Apologetics and Systematic Theology at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He also completed his Master of Theology at Southwestern Seminary and his Master of Christian Studies at Seminari Theoloji Malaysia. Samuel has debated a variety of debaters such as David Wood, Matt Dillahunty and David B. Ramsey.

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Boyce

Dr. Boyce is a director at Explain International based in Asheville, North Carolina. He completed his PhD in Theology with a concentration in Canonicity and Textual Criticism at Louisiana Baptist Theological Seminary. He also completed a Doctor of Theological Studies at Andersonville Theological Seminary. Dr. Boyce has participated in debates and dialogues with scholars such as Leighton Flowers, Richard Carrier and Josh Bowen.

Speaker: Jonathan Beazley

Jonathan is a director of Explain International and the founder of CityLight in Seattle, Washington. He completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Bible and Evangelism from Ambassador Baptist College. He was an itinerate evangelist for five years prior to founding CityLight and is passionate about training church leaders to defend the gospel in a post-Christian culture.

Partner: Flatfish Media

Flatfish Media is a creative content studio founded in Malaysia that produces original and responsible content mainly for community development and nation building especially amongst the youths. We believe no story is too small to bring it on the table for masses.

By focusing on telling the right stories, you will be surprised at the lives that you can touch and impact. Media has been a powerful influence for generations. Thus, we want to use media as a positive tool to steer society to have good strong values, especially within the uprising champs. We also believe that we can be entertaining without having to promote any vices as to what’s typical in media today. Our flagship series that we are very proud of Breathe: Suicide Prevention is a documentary series that has received widespread interest from government and community leaders alike in Malaysia for its groundbreaking insight into raising awareness for suicide prevention.

Speaker: Alvin Keng

With over a decade of experience under his ever-expanding belt, Alvin has covered the whole shebang of video production – directing, producing, post production and everything in between. He’s worked with and trained many beginners in the world of video and many of his ex-students are now successful filmmakers themselves and credit their sifu for kickstarting their filmmaking careers. He’s almost equally well-known for his prowess in the kitchen, where he swaps film for fryer to whip up unforgettable culinary treats.

Speaker: Steven Soon

“Every frame a painting” – inspired by Yasujirō Ozu, this is the mantra Steven holds when it comes to visual storytelling. Beautiful shots make him happy, but beautiful shots carrying meaning excite him. He’s a strong believer that stories carry power, and he drives that using a combination of images and sound to draw people into the different realities existing within the stories. His aptitude towards filmmaking, whether in writing, shooting, directing or editing is recognised through different awards and nominations, but he believes that this is just the beginning with many more stories to be told. When he’s not meddling with his camera, he can be found in his cave making music.

Speaker: Julie Goh

Julie is awesome. Nuff said.

Partner: Focus on the Family (FOTF)

Focus on the Family (FOTF) Malaysia, the Malaysian Associate Office of the parent company in the USA is a not-for-profit organisation established in 1997 dedicated to helping families thrive. FOTF vision is to enrich families and communities nationwide and to nurture, support and protect traditional values and institution of the family. Helping Families Thrive is our promise, and we are committed to help families nationwide navigate an ever-changing world and prosper for a lifetime.

Speaker: Agnes Chin

Agnes started her sales and business development career in Singapore delivering IT-based products and services to legal firms and advertising companies. In 1998, she returned to Malaysia to pursue her career and establish her family life. With four children between the ages of 15 and 20, she believes in raising them to be steadfast in their life principles, certain of their worth and inter-dependent between friends and family as they strive to pursue their unique life purposes. As a full- time homemaker, she home–schooled her two younger children till they were ready for high school. Agnes resonates well with the life challenges of college students and young working adults as she has been journeying with them through their struggles and milestones for the past 10 years as a volunteer at the local community centre. With Focus on the Family Malaysia, she delivers the No Apologies workshops to the local and privateinstitutions, sharing the truths on love, life and sex with the teenagers. She also brings her experiences as a parent to speak in the Parental Guidance programme on sex and sexuality to parents who are keen to start the conversations with their children.

Speaker: Dorothy Tan

Dorothy has served as a full-time staff in the No Apologies® (Youth) department of Focus on the Family Malaysia since 2017. She is currently the Master Trainer for No Apologies® (Malaysia)—a series of programmes that equip individuals with the truth about Life, Love and Sex. With over 16 years of experience from working with teenagers in her local community service centre, Dorothy has a passion to equip and educate youth in making informed choices for their lives. As of 2020, Dorothy is a licensed counsellor under Lembaga Kaunselor Malaysia (No. KB09185). Having a Master’s degree in counselling from Help University and five years of work experience in Human Resources, Dorothy uses the broad array of experience she has acquired to serve the younger generation in Malaysia.

Partner: Four Forty Records

Four Forty Records was established in 2006 by a group of friends with a passion to produce great, positive music. The Four Forty Family, as we fondly call it, has released over 70 tracks in studio albums, EPs, singles and live sessions in a variety of genres including pop, rock, urban, R&B, gospel, worship and world music. Our Mission “To inspire and connect communities through music and the creative arts” has brought us to perform and conduct workshops throughout Malaysia as well as in Singapore and Australia.

Speaker: Juwita Suwito

Juwita Suwito is a singer-songwriter, performer and vocal coach with a heart for worship. Her well-loved songs include You in Me, Satu Suara, Belle of the Ball, and most recently, Doa ‘Bapa Kami’ that was released by the Malaysian Worship Collective in 2020. She is also one of the founding directors of Four Forty Records.

Partner: Gateway Sports Network

Gateway Sports Network (GSN) believes sports is one of the many paragons of communicators. GSN sees the potential sports has to empower and to impact the masses. As far as their tag line goes – Building Champions! – we want to see individuals tapping into their respective potential, to be the Champions that they are meant to be in every possible area of their lives.

Speaker: Pr. Edward Lim

Pr. Edward Lim pioneered Gateway City Church in Penang Island beginning of 2008. He was a Youth Pastor for more than 15 years before that and has a vision and passion for sports ministry since his younger days. Trained as a swimming instructor and coach, he has been involved in various kinds of sports and was also the founder and President of the floorball association in Penang. He has also served as the head coach for the states of Penang and Sabah; as well as the Malaysian National team. He is currently heavily involved in the development of sport climbing in Penang and is currently the President of the Penang Climbing Association. He also serves in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).

He is very passionate about growing and developing youth leaders as he is involved in conducting training sessions, experiential learning activities and camps yearly for the youth.

Pr. Edward is married to Selina with 3 beautiful daughters, Ashlynn, Nathalynn, Chrisalynn and a son named Ashton. Both Pr. Edward and Selina are gifted in helping young people unleashing their potential for the glory of God!

Speaker: Penny Khoo

Penny Khoo is one of the pioneers of Gateway City Church. She has been working with young people for more than 20 years. Stepping into sports ministry in 2003, she works very closely with students in the schools through coaching floorball and running leadership workshops within the schools. She has a passion to see young people realizing and pursuing their God-given potential and dreams. Her heart is to see an emerging generation of young people who will possess the spirit of excellence and courage in their pursuit for God and His kingdom. Also one of the pioneers of floorball in Penang, she sees the potential of sports ministry as a platform for bridging and building lives of young people. Apart from floorball, she is also involved in sport climbing. Her vision is to build young people who will be champions both in sports and in life, and ultimately be the voice of God in the sports arena in the nation. Currently, she also serves as the Penang State Director for Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA).

Partner: GENNOW Creative Team

Speaker: Jeremy Ong

After several years of wading his way through the legal profession, Jeremy has responded to his calling in his pursuit as a destination wedding photographer and has not looked back since. Operating under the handle @momentsbyjeremy, he has been featured in several editorials including The Wedding Notebook and Pursuit of Portraits. He has shot in several destinations around the world including the United Kingdom, and Australia, and continues to service editorial clients, and enjoys collaborating with the best creative minds in KL.

Jeremy worships in HTBB and is a firm believer of the pivotal role of the church plays in the ever-evolving needs of society.

Speaker: Chris Yap

What started as an internship in the company behind YouTube channel ‘TheMingThing’ at the age of 20 grew into a lifelong passion for Chris. He founded the fashion brand, Highborn, and is currently leading the media team in SIBKL’s youth ministry as a full-time staff. He continues to lead the production and media team of Generation Now KL Conference.

Speaker: Josh Wong

Deciding between a career in engineering or law, 18 year old Josh chose to take a turn and pursue a career in creativity after serving in his church’s media team for years. 10 years on, he’s delved into the radio, television and even corporate freelance work to create videos. Now he is the founder of a video production company called Stride, aiming to do creativity with a purpose.

Partner: Grace Rehab Centre

A scourge in our society, drugs and substance abuse cause havoc to individuals, their families and the community at large. These individuals are unable to break the chain of their addiction and are often despised. Pusat Grace, a rehabilitation centre that provides shelter, food and counseling for those who are determined to fight their addiction through a comprehensive proven programme.

Since its founding in 1988, more than 1,000 addicts have passed through Pusat Grace with about one-third restored to their families. The programme includes withdrawal and total detoxification, simple responsibilities and finally, upon successful completion, securing jobs – all of which leads to their restoration with their families and community.

Speaker: Pr. Ignatius

Pr. Ignatius survived through extreme circumstances of 21 years in drug addiction since the age of 14. In 2003, he went through a program in a Christian rehabilitation, The Vineyard Keeper Centre, Ipoh where he accepted Christ the following year. Upon completing the two- year rehabilitative programme in 2005, he accepted God’s call to serve in the centre, providing biblical teaching and counselling support. Pr. Ignatius has been involved in drug rehabilitation ministry and support since then.

Partner: Heartcore

Heartcore is a movement of Christ-centred artistes who make positive influences in our generation through their art. Our mission is to discover, support and raise these artistes to make the love of Christ famous by using their gift of music and culture to make a positive, life- transforming impact especially amongst the youth.

Speakers: Jeff Kumar, Edmond, Alex

Jeff, Alex and Edmond are part of a local christian rock band called Army of Three. They’ve been active in the local scene for more than a decade. Their last album is entitled Heartcore, a rock themed worship anthem.

Together, they’re looking to share their experience in recording, producing music, especially from home and provide relevant tips on how to get your music out on all major platforms.