Rev.
Chee Ping Hwang (or Bro. Ping), Founder and Global Mission Coordinator of
Asia-Pacific Missions & Evangelism Network, Inc. (AMEN).
Rev. Chee Ping Hwang, a Singaporean Chinese, popularly known as Bro. Ping
Hwang, or simply Bro. Ping, to his Filipino co-workers and friends, founded
AMEN and incorporated it in
the Philippines on June 16, 2000. He is currently based in Singapore and
coordinates AMEN international network of ministries from there.
Since April 1990,
Bro. Ping has been visiting
the Philippines regularly for missions. In Singapore, the Lord gave Bro. Ping
the burden to train Filipino Contract Workers and turn them into Kingdom workers for His harvest field.
Between 1994 and
1998, Bro. Ping served as the Academic Dean of the School of Missions &
Evangelism (SOME) under Asia Evangelical Fellowship (AEF). More than a hundred
Filipino Contract Workers benefited from the training under SOME. Many went
home for good to serve the Lord after they have finished their contract. During the
same period, Bro. Ping also served as the Vice-Chairman and Treasurer of the Filipino
Outreach for Christ, which is also a ministry under AEF (Singapore).
Between 1993 to
1998, Bro. Ping led mission teams from Singapore to the Philippines.
Majority of the team members were Filipino domestic helpers trained by Bro.
Ping through SOME. They had used their home vacation for mission work.
In the Philippines, Bro. Ping speaks in
crusades, conferences and camps, as well as involved in church-planting work
in the mountains of Tublay in Benguet Province and in Kiangan of Ifugao. In
1997, he also brought the training programs of SOME to the Philippines. From
1997 to 2000, more than 300 courses or modules were completed by those who
took them in the Philippines.
In October
1998, Bro. Ping left SOME due to personal reasons. It was then the Lord
spoke to him about incorporating a mission organization in the Philippines. Bro.
Ping obeyed and after a period of preparation and gathering of pastors
in the Philippines to serve as incorporators of the new organization, AMEN was
finally incorporated on June 16, 2000.
In 1999, SOME
ceased to operate in Singapore. Bro. Ping then brought those who were doing
their SOME training in the Philippines under a new mission school – Ephesus
School of Missions & Evangelism (E-SOME), the equipping arm of AMEN. Since
the incorporation of AMEN in 2000, the Lord has blessed the ministry of E-SOME
with students in the provinces of Pangasinan, Tarlac, Isabela, Nueva Ecija,
Nueva Viscaya, Bulacan, Oriental Mindoro, Romblon and North Cotabato.
Since 1994, the
Lord has given Bro. Ping a vision and burden to reach the lost in the 10-40 Window. Since then, Bro. Ping has been asking the Lord to open doors for
him to reach the unreached in the 10-40 Window. In December 2001, after Dr.
Dante Veluz had prophesied over Bro. Ping regarding his missionary calling,
the Lord revealed to him the message of the “Prophetic Destiny of the
Philippines in Missions;” i.e. it is through the Filipino Church that the 10-40
Window will be reached with the Gospel for Jesus Christ. In December
2003, Bro. Ping began speaking on the “Prophetic Destiny of the
Philippines in Missions,” beginning in Malolos of Bulacan, which the Lord
has designated as the spiritual Jerusalem of the Philippines, the chosen place
for the launching of a mega-missionary movement from the Philippines into the 10-40
Window. Plans are now underway to publish the message of the
“Prophetic Destiny of the Philippines in Missions” as a book.
The year 2004
marks another turning point for AMEN. Doors are now opened for AMEN to be
involved in the equipping of national Christians in Myanmar (Burma) and Indonesia in the
10-40 Window. The following year 2005, AMEN established
networking ministries in India and Bangladesh, as well as Sierra Leone and
Nigeria in Africa. Last year 2006, the Lord continued to bless AMEN with
networking ministries in Thailand in Southeast Asia and Guinea in West
Africa. Indeed, the best is yet to come. To God be the glory!
Note: Besides
being the Founder and Global Mission Coordinator of AMEN, Bro. Ping is also a
member of Holy Spirit Revival Movement International (Philippines), as well as
Kingsway Fellowship International, where he obtains his missionary credentials
and license. Bro. Ping had his
seminary training at Theological Center for Asia (Singapore) where he did his
Master’s Degree in Bible and Missions.
Email Address: pinghwang@amen21.net
Mailing & Location Address: 103 Bishan Street 12, #24-276, Singapore 570103.
Rev.
Annabella U. Sison (or Sis. Annie), Administrative Manager of the Head Office of
Asia-Pacific Missions & Evangelism Network, Inc. (AMEN) in Pangasinan,
Philippines.