Charles & Hoong Yen Ho
Missions Personnel Code: "CHH"

 

Involvement: Community Development & Literacy

 

Organization: Wycliffe Singapore

 

Serving in: A Creative Access Nation (CAN)

 

Both Charles and Hoong Yen came to know the Lord through Brighton Youth Fellowship. They have been active members of the church, serving in various ministries over the years and coordinated the MISSIONS Outward Bound (MOB) program and the Missions Education portfolio. They were married in 2000.

 

In preparation for the field, they completed their theological studies at Singapore Bible College. In 2005, they were commissioned as missionaries to Thailand, where they served for 7 years. They served many minority groups in the Mekong Region through literacy, leadership, and national development. Hoong Yen graduated with M.A Linguistics at Payap University, Chiang Mai (Thailand). In time, the Lord called them away from Thailand to work in a Creative Access Nation, where they were stationed for four years. There, they engaged in community engagement, literacy, and some leadership roles.

 

Since returning to Singapore, Charles have served as BCC’s Missions Director from 2018 to 2021. And presently is the executive director of Wycliffe Singapore, leading Wycliffe to "establish a strong partnership with churches so as to raise the next generation of young people for the harvest field. Through strategic partnerships, we will together explore new ways in which the Gospel can reach the last frontiers and [for] communities [to] be transformed through His Word in their heart languages.”

Hoong Yen is still heavily involved with the work in the field, working remotely with the B3 people group, as well as coordinating Wycliffe Singapore’s mission trips programme. Hoong Yen believes in the importance of a holistic ministry: We “cannot just focus on the spiritual aspect of people and neglect their physical wellbeing.”

 

Their vision: Mobilising and partnering with believers to reach the Unreached People Groups in the Mekong region, trusting God for an indigenous, biblical church planting movement in each people group.