History
New Horizons was started by Justin and Maxene Kuek when they were sent to Malaysia to start a church in 1983. The work grew so fast that within a year, three churches had started. Recoginising God's hand at work, they set up a training school that was speciallydesigned to train church planters. They decided to take an unusual approach in setting up a relocatable school that emphasied appropriate training for the workers needed rather than a system of teaching, teachers, buildings and organisation. In the years that the school was run in Malaysia, over 80 church planters were trained and over 350 churches were started in Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, and Nigeria.
Despite the a high degree of "success", they felt that something was amiss. Even at this rate of church planting, the challenge of getting the good news out to the ends of the earth was just simply too big a task to complete. One of the greatest challenges was to see the work left behind by traditional missions efforts. One of the biggest problems was the fact that most of these church groups/denominations remined dependent upon the organisations that were responsible for their origins. This problem of DEPENDENCY causes the church to be weak, as it is unable to spontaneously develop without outside intervention. Many have sought to address this problem by teaching the indigenious churches to "trust God" for the provision of the resources needed for effective ministry. At NHM-i, we feel that this is the wrong approach. The problem is far deeper. What if the methods and structures we have come to rely upon for missions and church ministry are not divinely mandated? Can we then expect God to answer our pleas for the resources we think that are needed but not mandated by scripture? The obvious answer is "NO!"
So, after 20 years of "effective" church planting, we have taken a major shift in direction... we invite you to browse this site to find out more....