
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