Montreal Team Profile (Pei)

Pei-Sheng Hsu:


Education and work:
B.Bus (Man)(HON) & Law, Grad Dip in Law, Admitted Solicitor

Graduated from University of Queensland with double degree (Business Management and Law), Pei has been working at the Australian Taxation Office for the past 4 years, from a graduate to a graduate trainer.

Personal and ministry:
Originally from Taiwan, Pei migrated to Australia at 10 and has been in Australia ever since.

From 1999, Pei has been serving in the international students’ ministry at Hope Brisbane. Having a passion for church planting, she decided to join the Montreal team and has been preparing to go since 2006. Together with Beng and Mel, they went on a short mission trip to North America and Montreal late 2007.

Pei loves involving in the ministries of teaching principles from the bible and discipleship. Through this mission trip, she desires to step out in faith to gain experience in church planting and to learn to trust God more.

During her spare time, Pei loves to read books especially those related to history. She cannot get enough of fine chocolates and wishes that one day she would be able to visit every single country on earth and try all the chocolates in the world!

Montreal Team Profile (Mel)

Mellyana Widjaja


Education and work:
B. Eng (Mech Eng)(HON IIB), Dip Interior Design

Despite her degree in Mechanical Engineering, has been working as Décor Consultant for Victory Curtains and Blinds, and currently doing a diploma in Interior Design.

Personal and Ministry:
Mel loves coaching and helping people to fulfil the potential that God has given them, this usually involves teaching, spending quality time and a great friendship. Since coming back to God in 1999, she has been involved in International Student ministry and was exposed to people from at least 20 different nationalities.

In late 2007, she was exposed more in the area of Worship ministry and found music and creative arts to be the love of her life… next to God and Beng of course.

Through this next exciting phase of her life, she hopes to learn to trust in God more, taking some time to learn about living in a different country and getting to know new friends. Her lifelong goal is to be a good influence to people around about her, to help people to love and enjoy God, life and others.

Her other passions in life are crime TV series, cooking, shopping, doing coffees with friends, Japanese comics (reading and drawing), being involved in music and arts, I Pod Touch, cool gadgets, nice cars, project management, healthy eating, low impact exercises and everything exciting and fun.

Montreal Team Profile (Beng)

Beng Cheah:


Education and work:
B.App Sci (Medical Radiation Technology), Adv Dip (Maj in Pastoral Ministry), Assoc Dip (Elec Eng), Adv Cert (Elec Eng).

Born with an avid fascination with life, food and adventure, Beng ventured into the workforce since he was 15 years old. He has been exposed to an array of industries such as medical, hospitality, Internet marketing, movie making, food & beverages and imaging technology. He has worked as radiological technologist in Brisbane in both public and private health care industries for the past ten years.

Personal and Ministry:
In 1993 Beng moved from Penang, Malaysia to pursue his studies in Perth and then to Brisbane in 1995. He has called Brisbane his home for the past 14 years and became an Australian citizen in 2008. Through a series of fortunate or rather divinely inspired events, Beng became a part of Hope Brisbane in 1995. A seed was planted in this young lad that gradually grew & renewed his heart for God and for His church. Beng has served as a pastoral leader, church board committee, university Christian club president, service program coordinator and overseen several church wide projects in his time with Hope Brisbane.

In May 31st 2003, Beng married his best friend Mel. They lovingly spur each other to fulfill God’s call in one another's lives and tremendously enjoy empowering others fulfill their God-given potential and purpose.

Beng’s hobbies include tennis, Aikido, bushwalking, motorcycles, travelling, learning from other cultures and venturing on new God-led adventures with Mel.

From Brisbane Autumn to Montreal Spring

It will be the beginning of spring 2009 in Montreal! And we can’t wait to be a part of it for the very first time…

Over the past two years our team has been preparing to go to Montreal for church planting. We finally have the chance to do another (bigger) exploratory trip for about 1-year. The purpose of this trip is to help us understand the culture better. We aim to immerse ourselves in the bi-lingual culture of this beautiful city, while some of us are still waiting for our Canadian PR.

By the grace of God we have arrived to a time where we’ve confirmed our plane tickets and travel itineraries, ready to fly and embark on our newest adventure. Montreal, here we come!!!

We’ll be leaving on the 15th March. Please pray for us. We greatly need your support and prayers. For more information on how you could play a part or would like to support our team, feel free to contact us.

Until next time we see you again…

Love and God bless,


Beng, Mel and Pei

A can of PEPSI MAX is what it takes...

Uh oh I have finally done the 'dreaded calculation' trying to work out how long it will ACTUALLY take us to travel from Brisbane Airport to Montreal Airport, not including customs, luggage and all that jazz...

I've been trying to avoid this cause I know it's not going to be one of those short journeys that you can just switch your mind off and voila you're there... Well indeed, it will take us 35 hours and 45 minutes wooo hooo!!! (my initial response was booo hooo... sobbing)

I guess the only think I can do right now is to prepare as much entertainment and fun as much as possible... (You've got to always bring joy into every situation... right!)

So a can of PEPSI MAX later:

We're going to delegate as follows:

Beng's role is to check what inflight movies will we get during the journey...

My role is to make sure all I Pods (I Pod touch included) will have all the necessary music, videos, podcasts, games, etc (You can never be too prepared), also bring playing cards, comics, magazines and possibly books as well (I got bible in my I-Touch already)

And Pei... well, she just has to make sure we take the right plane and at the right time LOL (Someone has to do this)

Now that the travel is all sorted... let me start to think about packing and visas LOL


Praying and Thinking hard,

Mel

Montreal - One of the most beautiful cities on earth

Hi all,

We tried very hard in finding a gadget that only shows one video at a time. Well guess for the time being we have got to accept that BLOGGER doesn't have that facility just yet (unfortunately), the one that they've got, doesn't work properly. We will try again soon. If you have any suggestion please feel free to let us know.

So anyway, it will not stop us from showing you the beauty of Montreal city.

Just type in these key words in the Youtube search on this page, and it should then take you directly to the correct video:

Montreal in two minutes
Montreal minute
Tourisme Montreal Leisure


Enjoy!