About Us
Amazing Grace Presbyterian Church
More than a title, leadership in AGPC centres on shepherding, serving and engaging our church community to grow in wisdom in the Lord. The Bible is explicit in its call for church leaders to lead by good example and exercise oversight, not under compulsion, but willingly as God would have them to shepherd the flock of God among them (1 Peter 5:2-3). While desiring a noble task (1 Tim 3:1), our Pastors and Elders are charged with the responsibility of preserving and upholding sound doctrines while remaining right before God and the church (Titus 1:7-9). Our Deacons are also called to be godly, wise and faithful servants who have stood the test of faith (1 Tim 3:8-13), enabling them to undertake responsibility of managing the Church.
The appointment of our church leaders, who aspire to live their lives accordingly to the fruit of the Spirit (Gal 5:22-23), stands as a testimony of our commitment and faith in proclaiming God, warning and teaching everyone with all wisdom and presenting everyone mature in Christ (Col 1:28).
Our Vision
HIM we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in CHRIST.
Colossians 1:28
Our Mission
Worship
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.
1 Peter 2:9-10A
Equipping
So that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
Ephesians 4:14-16
Fellowship
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Outreach
Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.
Matthew 28:19-20
But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
1 John 3:17-18
Support
Yet I will appoint them to keep charge of the temple, to do all its service and all that is to be done in it.
Ezekiel 44:14
Our Statement of Faith
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We believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God in Three Persons, as the only true and living God.
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We believe in the sovereignty of God in election, creation, revelation, redemption, judgment and the establishment of His kingdom.
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We believe in the deity of Jesus Christ, who is God’s only begotten Son, born of a virgin, lived a sinless life, died an atoning death, rose with bodily resurrection and ascended to the right hand of the heavenly Father. Jesus Christ is both fully God and fully man, He is the Head of the Church, the only Saviour, Redeemer and Mediator between God and man.
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We believe in the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of Truth who is from the Father and the Son. The Holy Spirit applies the saving work of Christ to individual sinners, through effectual calling, regeneration, justification and sanctification. The Holy Spirit indwells the believers from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption.
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We believe and accept the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be the only true, inspired, holy and infallible Word of God, and they are the supreme authority and standard in all matters of faith and conduct.
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We believe that salvation is wholly by God’s grace, through faith in Jesus Christ apart from human merits or works. Jesus Christ made a complete atonement by His substitutionary death on the cross to redeem His people. He imputes His righteousness to all believers who repent and trust in Him alone for salvation. All true believers, once saved, are secured in Jesus Christ forever.
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We believe in Jesus Christ as the Head of the holy universal Church, to which all true believers belong. All powers and functions in the Church are subject to Jesus Christ’s authority. The Church throughout the world and of all ages is His Body, of which AGPC is a member.
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We believe in the personal and glorious return of the Lord Jesus Christ to save the Church and to judge the world.
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We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost. All the saved believers will enter into eternal union with God to enjoy everlasting glory and blessing; all the lost unbelievers will enter into eternal separation from God to suffer everlasting judgment and condemnation.
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We acknowledge the Apostle’s Creed and the Westminster Confession of Faith as worthily expressing the fundamental and traditional faith commonly held by the Church.
Meet Our Team
REV Dr Steven Gan
Senior Pastor
Preacher Joseph Tan
Associate Pastor (YA/Adults)
Preacher Amos Yeo
Associate Pastor (Youth/YA)
Preacher Elena Yeo
Associate Pastor (Children)
Ms Joyce Koh
Admin Staff
Ms Audrey Foo
Admin Staff
Our History
Amazing Grace Presbyterian Church began as an English Service of Holy Grace Presbyterian Church, a predominantly Hainanese-speaking church. Our humble beginnings can be traced back to 1978 when Holy Grace Presbyterian Church observed a “Year of Dedication” and set apart about 20 people who met weekly as an English service.
In Oct 1992, Preacher Steven Gan joined us as a Pastor while Sister Joyce Koh became our Church Administrator in Oct 1993. Soon after, the church partnered Myanmar Youth for Christ and embarked upon our first mission outreach. This would later develop into an on-going bible training (using DLTP materials) for pastors and church leaders in Myanmar with other partnering churches (known as MMPC). Our work in mission also expanded into China, Indonesia and Cambodia.
We ordained Rev Steven Gan as our first minister on 1st May 1995. Then in 1996, Holy Grace Presbyterian Church encouraged us to register as a separate accountable entity with the English Presbytery. Amazing Grace Presbyterian Church was born on 24 Aug 1996. The following year, Preacher Carrie Chan joined the pastoral team and Elder Yong Teck Meng was installed as our lay preacher. In 1999, Yong Pin Yoon and his wife Susie left for Davao, Philippines, sent by the church as support staff of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
In 2001, the leadership made a joint decision with Holy Grace Presbyterian Church to rebuild the bungalow premises we had outgrown. Rebuilding would take 18 months and $5 million, with our congregation bearing half the cost ($2.5 million). In the meantime, we relocated to Changi Bethany Presbyterian Church at Upper Changi Road East and rescheduled our worship services to 4 p.m. on Sundays. Membership dropped to an all time low of about 160 people from 250. As we could also no longer send our children to Holy Grace’s Children’s Sunday School, we started our own Children’s Ministry.
By God’s grace, our dedicated team of Pastors, Elders, Deacons and lay leaders worked hard and steered the congregation through the 18 months in the ‘wilderness’. In May 2003, we moved into a new church building with two sanctuaries, a multi-purpose hall and over 20 rooms to accommodate staff and kindergarten operations.
In obedience to Jesus’ command that we be the salt and the light of the world, we formed Filos Community Services in July 2004. Filos would serve as the local social service arm of the church working directly with community partners, schools, families, elderly, children and needy youths.
God continued to lead and bless His church by adding more staff to our team: Mrs. Maggie Gan as our Choir Director; Elder Rocky Lim as our Pastoral Assistant, and Sister Audrey Foo as our second Administrative Staff.
Today, we have about 600 members and we stand together as ‘His people, living for His purpose to bring Him greater glory’. We want to remain anchored in God’s Word and to be faithful to our calling as witnesses of Jesus Christ. May God continue to use us as His instruments to make disciples of Jesus Christ.
It is our privilege to belong to the universal church of our Lord Jesus Christ and to play our part in the larger Presbyterian Church in Singapore. Indeed, may all who trust in Christ stand on that last day to hear our Lord saying “Well done, good and faithful servants”.
