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Mary Yeo Carpenter, Urban Mission, Jun 01, 1997, Volume 14:04, pp. 42-48. Country: Singapore. Region: Southeast Asia. Used by permission of Urban Mission. All rights to this material are reserved. Materials are not to be distributed to other web locations for retrieval, published in other media, printed for distribution or mirrored at other sites without written permission from the copyright owner(s). Viewed 849 times, 16 this month.



Church and parachurch; Church planting; Contextualization; Holistic mission; Power encounters; Social classes; Social structures; Urban mission



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Bethesda Bedok-Tampines Church straddles two new towns in Singapore, Bedok and Tampines, with their combined population of 550,000. Big and modern, the church has tripled its numbers since it opened its doors for its first worship service in Christmas 1986. While impressive, the growth is not spectacular in a country where churches showed a decadal growth rate of between 27 to 1,000 percent in the 1980s. And the leaders, obviously expecting rapid numerical growth, have built the church so as to