John Lim was a Singaporean businessman who became part of the inner circle of my life. He was ILI’s Asia Pacific Director and served on our Global Board of Directors. We met 12 years ago at the 2006 Nairobi Conference. A friend had nominated him to attend, although at the time, John felt too busy to give God two weeks.

At the conference, he heard great Christian leaders like Rob Frost (London), Peter Pereira (India), David Thagana (Kenya), Isaac Lim (Singapore), Norival Trindade (Brazil), Al Vom Steeg (USA), and my wife Joy (USA) teach on Christian leadership, evangelism, and spreading the Gospel.

One evening session was about “passion for the harvest". True passion comes from God, and John Lim dared to ask Him for it. As he prayed, God filled him with the Holy Spirit and gave him the gift of apostleship.

John returned to Singapore where he would work at his insurance company during the week and fly to Thailand, Myanmar, and other places on the weekends to train leaders and preach to the lost. God used him to plant churches in villages where there had never been a church and to raise up leaders who could transform whole communities.

John was a humble, winsome man with bold passion and fearless faith. He was a leader of leaders and responsible for equipping more than 7000 leaders in Asia in the last ten years.

He was a close brother and mentor to me, and an example for all of us. He can say with the apostle Paul,

“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
2 Timothy‬ 4:7‬

Brother John went home to the Lord on 28 March 2018. PLMC honours him for his dedicated service to the Lord and His people.