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Caleb Caleb KGF Church

My name is Caleb and I was born in Vancouver after my parents immigrated to Canada from Hong Kong. I was blessed to have Christian parents who instilled God’s values into my life: to be polite, respectful, honest, and hardworking. Much of who I am is due to the training and disciplining I received from my parents.

At an early age, I knew my parents were Christians. I had just assumed that I too was a Christian, because my parents were Christians. I was wrong. As I grew up, getting into trouble, and not always treating others well, I realized that God only had children, not grandchildren. I wasn’t automatically a Christian just because my parents were Christians; I realized that I had to make a personal choice to be a Christian. So around the age of 8, I decided to become a Christian, to become a follower of Jesus, to become a child of God.

I grew and matured, and was a pretty good kid. However, I was not a very good Christian, because through high school, I was embarrassed to tell others that I was a Christian. But God was patient and slowly worked in my life. I learned more about Him and His character, and enough to be obedient in following His desire for me to be baptized in 1982.

The godly values my parents instilled in me kept me away from many of Satan’s traps, and I am very grateful for that. But Satan was successful in keeping me from telling others about who God was, and His love for them. It was not until I entered UBC in Vancouver, a secular institution, that God ignited my walk with Him. Through Campus Crusade for Christ, I no longer was a “closet Christian”. I became proud of my relationship with God. I desired to serve God and put Him on the throne of my life. My head knowledge began to impact my heart.

I started working with the youth and wanted to follow God wherever He would lead. He led me to Prince George where I continued to serve Him with youth and young adults. As I served Him, I experience much joy. Through serving, I met my beautiful wife Marianne who is my help mate and best friend. He also blessed me with two healthy, energetic, godly boys, swcr6hua and Robson.

I love to serve God because I have experienced the blessing of joining Him in His work around me. I want to continue to follow Him because He has proven Himself to be always faithful, taking me to places I’ve never dreamed I would enjoy. He loves me in spite of my faults and my failures, and He loves me enough not to leave me where I am; He loves me enough to discipline me and to correct me.

    
I want to serve my God and proudly proclaim to others that I am His child. I want to share with others that I am a Christian. I want to make an impact on other people’s lives, for Him. Lately, God has been taking me through a lot of changes. But I trust Him and look forward in seeing what He will do continue to do in my life, as a child of God.

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Mike Penninga

Mike Penninga is first a foremost a son of God, a husband of Michelle, a father of 3, and a pretty good tennis player. A grad of Trinity Western University and ACTS seminary with a background in broadcast journalism, Mike has a passion for sharing the life changing news of Jesus Christ in understandable and captivating ways. He has been the lead pastor at KGF since March 2009.

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