Stories of Hope

14/09/2025

Yolanda Lee was diagnosed with breast cancer at 28. She was healthy, thriving at work, and planning her wedding.

"Why me? What if I d*e?" Fear and anxiety filled her mind ... until one day, a reassuring voice told her that she would live.

10/09/2025

Alvin Kong was a temple medium. For years, he channelled spirits, believing it was the only way to save his soul.

He never expected to fall in love with a Christian – the one type of people he despised.

This is the story of how Alvin fell in love. Not just with Dawn, but also with her God. In Him, Alvin found healing, love, and the freedom to finally let go.

From the time he was in kindergarten, Alvin Kong, was able to see things from the spiritual realm. "One night, I saw a real figure of an effigy that is usually placed next to the joss stick urn," Alvin, now 36, recalled.

27/08/2025

Given up for adoption at birth, Raymond Mooi was taken in by a priestess and raised in a temple surrounded by strict rituals and rites. Unable to fit in with his peers, he grew up rebellious – until he encountered the love of a Father he never knew he had.

Today, the 66-year-old is a minister who has spent the last 30 years bringing God's healing to the sick. Blind eyes have been opened, the crippled have walked, deaf people with no eardrums have heard, bones have been reconstructed, and the mute have spoken.

Rev Raymond will be in Singapore on September 7 for HEAL SG, a national healing rally. Admission is free. For more details, visit: heal.sg

When Raymond Mooi was born in Ipoh, Malaysia in 1959, he was put up for adoption. A temple priestess, who had taken a vow...

24/08/2025

Three times, Johnny Lim came this close to d*ath. But each time, he was saved miraculously.

He soon realised these were not coincidences – Someone's hand was on him, ready to use his life for a greater purpose.

20/08/2025

Dawn Lim grew up feeling like “nobody wanted to look after me”.

She was two when her parents divorced. She hardly saw her father, and did not meet her mother again till she was 11.

In her teens, Dawn drank, smoked, partied and would get drunk in the company of friends.

She got married at the age of 25, became a mother and got divorced.

But in her 40s, something shifted. The tough-talking, tattooed party girl began to lose interest in drinking and going out.

"I found them bo liao (meaningless) and didn’t find happiness in them anymore."

Instead, she found meaning in Something else.

When Dawn Lim was two years old, her parents divorced. She never saw her mother until she was 11 years old. Too busy working, her father got his own mother to raise Dawn. When she passed on, her father’s sister took over.

10/08/2025

What is the meaning of life? After a bad breakup, Swasti Wonowidjojo was desperate for answers. Despite trying everything from partying to feng shui and New Age rituals, nothing worked.

Instead, she ended up plagued by hallucinations. In one terrifying episode, she even experienced her head turning on its own.

How did Swasti find the answer she was looking for?

06/08/2025

Neny Budiawan, 61, bears the scars of a fire that took place in her home 20 years ago.

The fire caused 60% of her body – down to her feet – to suffer third degree burns, but her face was spared.

That was just one miracle in a series that carried her through an intense time of painful recovery. Another miracle was a supernatural encounter she had while in hospital.

“Even today, when I am depressed or down, I remember Jesus coming to take my hand,” said Neny.

“It brings down my heart rate and gives me peace. I will never forget that feeling of peace, happiness and most of all joy, with no worries about what happens tomorrow.

“I want to tell you: D3ath is nothing to be afraid of."

Neny Budiaman was refilling their aromatherapy lamp – an exotic, beautiful deep blue glass bottle – with a special oil, as she had done many times before. As she lit the wick with a lighter, the bottle exploded.

30/07/2025

Wong Yuan Sy was expected to win gold at the national schools track and field competition in her Secondary 4 year.

The high-performing GEP (Gifted Education Programme) student was used to excelling academically and on the sports field.

But she injured her ankle, and completely crashed out of the finals.

“Did you get the gold?” one teammate asked. “Silver? Bronze?”

She never replied, because she could not hold back her tears.

“Until this point, I had never failed at anything I had put so much effort into. It crushed me. I felt worthless and condemned," Yuan Sy, now 49, writes.

Devastated, Yuan Sy was unable to focus on studying for her prelims.

“What if I failed to do well? What would be left of me?”

How did she bounce back to get 8 A1s in her “O” Levels?

And how did she discover that her worth was not in her achievements?

At the end of my Secondary Three year in 1991, my father told me I had to make time to study for my “O” Levels the following year. I was to give up all my beloved activities except one – and I had to choose.

27/07/2025

Brandon Ho resented his father for failing at his business and not providing for their family. At the age of 14, Brandon had to work multiple jobs to pay off his father's debts. His anger and disrespect towards his father went on for years until Brandon's fiancée urged him to reconcile before their wedding.

Was there hope for such a broken relationship?

23/07/2025

Linda’s grandmother was a nightclub dancer in the 1930s. She met a British soldier and they had a baby: Linda's mother. But when the Japanese Occupation began, he abandoned his family and returned home to the UK.

Desperate for money, Linda's grandmother sold her 9-year-old daughter into prost*tution and lived off her earnings for decades.

Linda was the fifth child her mother had, each with a different man. She never knew who her father was. She grew up in a one-room flat in Geylang, shunned, shamed and called "Monster from England" in school.

What seemed like a tragic family story was suddenly turned upside down when her "wicked Granny" had an encounter with God and became a totally different person.

Linda's mother also found God, and peace. Linda, also a Christian, married and had two children.

Two years ago she took a DNA test to try to trace her father. Did she succeed?

This isn’t just a story of trauma. It’s a story of transformation – across three generations.

Catch the story of Linda’s life in “I am a Murphy” a Mandarin-language stage drama which will be held on Friday August 1, 2025.

In the 1930s, my grandmother worked as a “socialite” – what we now call a nightclub dancer. She was 100% Chinese and very beautiful. She met a British soldier and they had a daughter: My mum.

09/07/2025

When the COVID pandemic struck, Jack Chu – then 23 – hatched a brilliant idea to support his family: Selling his mother's kimchi from home and naming it Jin Kimchi after her.

Soon, Jack was easily selling 200 to 300kg of kimchi a day, and making up to S$60,000 a month.

Within a span of two years, he opened a total of 11 Jin Kimchi Express stalls in hawker centres islandwide. His kimchi was also sold in supermarkets.

He thought success would make him happy. But it didn’t. “The burnout was real. I felt hopeless and alone.”

On his 28th birthday, Jack found himself sitting on the floor, exhausted and overwhelmed. His thoughts turned to the higher power he grew up believing in.

"Why not just pray to the God I am familiar with and maybe I would find the calmness that I was seeking?" he thought.

When the COVID-19 pandemic swept through the world in 2020 and Singapore went into lockdown, Jack Chu, then 23, was in a spot. His family’s two Korean hair salons had to stop operations, and money was tight. But instead of giving up, he turned to something closer to home – quite literally.

02/07/2025

Growing up in Geylang, Singapore’s notorious red-light district, Chua Seng Lee started a “s*x club” to distribute p**n tapes and magazines to his schoolmates. He was just in Secondary 1 at that time.

He was also interested in becoming a dr*g dealer. But funny enough, his gangster friends didn’t allow him to, and encouraged him to study.

“They also told me that if you take dr*gs, you’ll have a messed-up s*x life,” Seng Lee, now 58, said.

“To be honest, I was more interested in s*x than dr*gs.”

But something always stopped him from crossing certain lines – like joining a gang, doing dr*gs, or having s*x before marriage.

Seng Lee tried hard to be bad – he partied hard, drank, smoked and gambled – but failed.

What did destiny have in store for someone like him?

Growing up in Geylang, Singapore’s notorious red-light district, Chua Seng Lee was surrounded by vice from a young age. He was often left to his own devices as his father worked long hours as a storeman for the British army, while his mother worked from home as a seamstress to supplement the famil...