Pastor Kim Hock, 1973-2023, A Hero of Faith
Our beloved pastor, bible teacher and brother-in-Christ, Ps Kim Hock, has gone home to be with the Lord on 26 Sep‘23. No words can describe the grief and loss we all feel in our hearts right now. Yet, we have the assurance that Ps Kim Hock is in God’s presence and we will all see him again when the Lord returns.
We want to honour this man of God for exemplifying faith and surrender to all of us in spite of his challenging circumstances. He showed us what it truly means to have a child-like trust in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Ps Kim Hock started his full-time ministry as a Zone Supervisor in the year 1999. He took a zone for 8 years and became active in missions during this period. He was appointed the Academic Dean of SOT in 2008, and also became Missions Pastor in 2010. He was effectively bilingual in both English and Mandarin, and preached in China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Vietnam and Taiwan. He was involved in humanitarian endeavours such as the Tsunami relief effort in Banda Aceh in 2004. He also served on the Board of CHCSA for 11 years. He was someone who served the Lord wholeheartedly, with ALL of his talents and abilities.
Ps Kim Hock’s love for the Word of God was evidently seen during the course of his life. Though he graduated in 2010 with a Master of Divinity from Trinity Theological College, Singapore, he continued to pursue his second masters degree in Theology with the aim of further developing the Christian educational curriculum in our church and SOT. He was still trying to complete his Master of Theology course despite his very ill health in the first quarter of 2023. Even during his most challenging and painful seasons, he constantly encouraged all who met up with him face to face or through his personal reflections via his social media account @pskimhock. Many of us will remember Ps Kim Hock fondly for his joyful demeanour and his perfect faith in God.
1 Peter 1:6-7 says “In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” We salute Ps Kim Hock for his faith, which has been proven greater than gold. He has definitely revealed Christ through his life well-lived. He was not only a pastor, but CHC’s theologian, missionary and a dear friend to many of us.
With this, we sign off with one of Ps Kim Hock’s familiar exhortations: “Let’s be about our Father’s business!”.
Here are some of the inspiring and faith-filled articles from Ps Kim Hock published by City News:
• God’s Solution For All – The Word Made Flesh: Reflections From Pastor Tan Kim Hock, 1 July 2021:
God’s Solution For All – The Word Made Flesh: Reflections From Pastor Tan Kim Hock
• About The Father’s Business: Reflections From Pastor Tan Kim Hock, 9 February 2021:
About The Father’s Business: Reflections From Pastor Tan Kim Hock
• Bliss And Blister: Pastors Kim Hock and Lily In Sickness, In Health, In Faith, 19 November 2020:
Bliss And Blister: Pastors Kim Hock and Lily In Sickness, In Health, In Faith