Rev Dr Robert Lim
Founding Chairman

Rev Dr Robert Lim Bak Mong received his theological training at the Bible Institute of Malaya and graduated with a diploma of Theology in 1966. He is presently the Founding Pastor of Evangel Family Church, the only pastorate he holds since his graduation from Bible school. Through his love for the church and able leadership, he has led Evangel Family Church to become one of the leading missions-giving churches in the world. Since 1981, he has been serving as a member of the Board of Directors of Church Growth International (CGI). In October 1989, he was conferred with an Honorary Doctor of Divinity from the Bethesda School of Theology (California, USA) by Dr David Yonggi Cho.
Pastor Robert became an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God (AG) of Singapore in 1969. He then served in the AG Executive Committee from 1977-1994 and held the post of Assistant General Superintendent for 10 years which he relinquished in May 1994 to fulfil the vision to plant 100 churches in the Philippines by the year 2000. Today, he is the Founding Chairman of Jireh Evangel Church Planting Philippines Inc.(JECPP) which have thus far planted 319 churches. JECPP has also established Evangel Centre for Missions and Evangelism(ECME), a missions school which specialises in training Filipino pastors in the area of church planting. Having witnessed and recognised the progress of JECPP, the Philippines Evangelical Council of Churches have accorded JECPP the standing of a denomination. After an absence of six years which were dedicated to fulfilling the above vision, he was once again overwhelmingly elected in the nomination ballot as the Assistant General Superintendent of AG Singapore which he served from April 2000 to 2001.
Pastor Robert is a dynamic international missions speaker who has ministered in nations like Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda and the United States. His ministry has impacted churches and organisations to raise millions of dollars for missions. With God’s help, he has led Evangel Family Church to support pastors, missionaries and Christian workers from Singapore and all over the world. For almost 36 years, Evangel Family Church had given continuously and generously despite having no permanent place of worship. On Christmas Day, 25 December 2002, Evangel had their very first service in their new six–storey building.
Pastor Robert is happily married to Marion and they have three children, Dale (married to Chui Chui), Kirk (married to Jasmine), and Dayna (married to Jeremy), and has 2 grandchildren, Joseph and Jada.

Rev Chuck Chua
Chairman

Rev Chuck Chua was installed as an Assistant Pastor of Evangel Assembly of God (now known as Evangel Family Church) in Singapore in January 1985 after his graduation from Asia Theological Centre of Evangelism and Missions (ATCEM) with a Bachelor degree in Biblical Studies. He served in the Christian Education and Missions Departments until 1987 before continuing his theological training and graduating with a Master of Divinity degree majoring in Missions from the Alliance Biblical Seminary (ABS) in Metro Manila, Philippines. He married his wife Jocelyn Chua in January 1991 and rejoined the pastoral team in Evangel Singapore as the missions pastor. In October 1993, he and his wife were sent out as missionaries to the Philippines to assume pastoral leadership over Evangel Family Church in Cebu City. The following year he received his credential paper as an ordained minister of the Assemblies of God of Singapore. Since the founding of Jireh Evangel Church Planting Philippine (JECPP), Inc in November 1993 under Rev Dr Robert Lim, Pastor Chua has served as the Regional Director of Central and Eastern Visayas. He also functions as the Vice-Chairman and the Foreign Missions Director of the church planting organization. He and his wife together with their son, ElRoy reside in Guadalupe, Cebu City.

Rev Lim Toh Nee
Vice Chairman

Rev Lim Toh Nee, a Singaporean was sent as a missionary to the Philippines in 1986 to start a pioneering work under Evangel Family Church, Singapore. In 1988 he married his dear wife, Rev Lily Lim, a Singapore, also one of the pioneering missionary. Together they remained in Iloilo City for the last 18 years and continued to nurture and build up the church he started in Iloilo City. In 1994, he was appointed Vice-Chairman of JECPP by Rev Dr Robert Lim to plant churches over the Philippines. When JECPP finally planted its 100th church in the Philippines in 1997, Rev Dr Robert Lim, passed the Chairmanship of JECPP to him. Today with the help of God he continues to build up the church planting endeavor in the Philippines.

Rev Peter Wee
Regional Director

Rev Peter Wee served as assistant pastor to Rev. Dr. Robert & Marion Lim in Evangel Family Church, Singapore for 12 years before receiving the ‘Call of God’ to become a missionary to the Philippines. Subsequently, on August 1993 he came to Davao City in Mindanao, a city considered as the largest single city in the Philippines, together with his wife, Christine Wee and their 3 year-old daughter, Ena Wee Ning.
He immediately began pioneering Evangel Family Church in the city proper and started planting outstation EFC churches in Southern Mindanao. Today, 39 churches have been planted in the 3 regions of Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Davao del Sur, among them nine are tribal churches, situated in the vast hinterlands of Davao City’s mountainous area.

Rev Andrew Kwong
Regional Director

Rev Andrew Kwong was one of the four SIngaporean missionaries sent to Iloilo City in 1986 to start Evangel's first church in the Philippines. In 1988, together with 3 other workers, he pioneered Evangel’s second church in the Philippines in Cebu City. Later he was married to his wife, Rowena Kwong and have a lovely daughter Kristy. In 1992, he was asked to become principal of the newly established Evangel Missions School. Again in 1995, they were sent to Cagayan de Oro City to pioneer a new church until the present. He is also JECPP's Regional Director of Northern Mindanao region.

Rev Jessie Yu
ECME Principal

Rev Jessie Yu was born on October 31, 1969, came to Evangel Family Church Iloilo in 1986. He was one of the first five members of Evangel Family Church Iloilo and later became a most trusted leader of Rev Toh Nee Lim and Rev Lily Lim. He was a graduate and a licensed Civil Engineer. But the call to serve God grew stronger while he was working as a civil engineer. In 1995 Rev Lily Lim approached him to come into full-time ministry serving as an assistant pastor of Evangel Family Church Iloilo. Later when JECPP was organized, Rev Robert Lim selected him to become the principal of EMS in 1995. At the same time he is also pioneering a work in Jaro. He married Rachel Susmiran, a faithful leader and also a full-time staff of Evangel Iloilo on December 30, 1995 and they have a 5-year old daughter. He is one of JECPP Spiritual leaders and is also the secretary of the organization. Today Rev Jessie Yu is Assistant Pastor of Evangel Family Church Iloilo, the pastor of Evangel Family Church Jaro and the appointed Principal of Evangel Center for Missions and Evangelism or ECME (the new training wing of JECPP)