Love on Ukraine founders and Fire & Rain missionary among winners of 2025 Missions Impact Award

We worship no one but Jesus. But the Bible tells us to outdo one another in honour. (Romans 12:10) Since 2016, Salt&Light and the other websites on the Thirst Collective have published thousands of stories of believers whose obedience to God has seen lives, communities, and even nations, transformed. This year, to recognise these heroes of faith […] The post Love on Ukraine founders and Fire & Rain missionary among winners of 2025 Missions Impact Award appeared first on Salt&Light.

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Love on Ukraine founders and Fire & Rain missionary among winners of 2025 Missions Impact Award

We worship no one but Jesus. But the Bible tells us to outdo one another in honour. (Romans 12:10)

Since 2016, Salt&Light and the other websites on the Thirst Collective have published thousands of stories of believers whose obedience to God has seen lives, communities, and even nations, transformed.

This year, to recognise these heroes of faith who labour in love for God and community, and to invite support for their ministries, we are pleased to announce the inaugural 2025 Salt&Light Inspiration Awards.

The seven categories in the 2025 Salt&Light Inspiration Awards are:

Creation Care Award
Stories of Hope and hhm.sg Evangelism Award
Missions Impact Award
Marketplace Impact Award
Caleb Award (Age 65 and above)
Thir.st Youth Inspiration Award (Age 21 and below)
2025 Salt&Light Inspiration Award

The winners for the 2025 Missions Impact Award have brought transformational impact in the mission fields beyond Singapore.

The 2025 Missions Impact Award winners are: Lam Bao Yan and Rudy Taslim, Pastor Ng Zhi-Wen, Anne Deborah Ng, Chua Kim Peng and Ng Lee Keng.

(Catch the winners of the other categories on Salt&Light all this week.)

LAM BAO YAN & RUDY TASLIM, Founders, Genesis Architects

Founders of Love on Ukraine and Living Oaks, Rudy and Baoyan are core members of Antioch21 and graduates of Mozambique’s Iris Harvest School.

Starting high-impact ministries in Ukraine in 2022, they have planted more than 80 “lighthouses” or places of refuge, and built 500 emergency houses for the elderly, young and disabled. They also support women with crisis pregnancies, and carry out chaplaincy work in the frontlines. For their service, they have been given residency by Ukraine.

Through Love on Ukraine, they gifted 3,000 orphans and children with toy sheep that play audio Bibles and worship songs, to bring comfort and peace.

Before their regular trips to the war zones, they wean themselves off coffee, sugar and chocolate and cut down their daily intake by one meal to ensure they can keep functioning even without easy access to food.

How did you get started?

“We once had it all – successful careers, recognition, and comfort. Yet deep inside, our souls hungered for more. We longed to be fully used by God. When His call came, we laid everything down and went to Mozambique, among the poorest of the poor. There we learned to go low and slow, to wash feet, to weep with the broken, and to discover joy far greater than any award or accolade.

“What drives us is simple but unshakeable: A passion to see God’s Kingdom break in – to bring hope where there is despair, light where there is darkness, and love where there is none. This is why blind children in Rwanda have received sight, child soldiers in Congo have been set free, and child brides have found hope for a future.

“These are not just stories of individuals, but signs of what God is doing on a larger scale: Transforming lives, restoring families, and shaping nations through the Gospel. Each miracle and breakthrough fuels us to press further – to disciple nations and to reach those who have never heard.”

How have you seen God in the journey?

“Through the years, God has opened doors we could never imagine – from building a university in Mozambique, to carrying His love into the Middle East, and into war-torn Ukraine. Amid ruins and despair, we have seen beauty rise from ashes: Over 500 homes rebuilt, refugee children educated, centres of healing established, and tens of thousands of lives impacted. What began as relief is becoming reformation – whole communities, and even nations, being transformed by His love.

“We have decided to follow Jesus – no turning back, no matter the cost. May our lives burn as a flame that carries His light to the ends of the earth.”

PASTOR NG ZHI-WEN, Strategic Coordinator, Antioch 21

A Pastor at Zion Bishan Bible-Presbyterian Church, Zhi-Wen was seconded to Singapore Centre for Global Mission (SCGM), where he served in missions research and mobilisation.

He is also the Strategic Coordinator of Antioch21, a movement that builds bridges between businesses, social enterprises and churches to fulfil the Great Commission. It is a role he is called to, as one who believes in “integral mission”, where platforms are created for people from different churches, ages and experiences to share Christian tenets and collaborate on missional issues.

How did you get started?

“I left my full-time job in public service with a sense of a call to serve the Lord in the Church. I didn’t know what I was to do. But five years later, at a Jakarta prayer meeting, the Lord impressed upon me my purpose: Connector.

“I was to help the Church be united for God’s global mission. Shortly after that, I signed up with the Singapore Centre for Global Missions, and then got involved with various initiatives including Micah Singapore, Habibi Singapore, GoForth 2018, and the Lausanne Movement.

How have you seen God in the journey?

“God has shown time and again how He is at work, bringing His Church closer in the spirit of unity, so that together we may be an Antioch Church, and play our part in hastening the coming of our Lord – at the very least for this Decade of Missions! Soli Deo Gloria!”

ANNE DEBORAH NG, Missionary, Fire & Rain International Ministries

Anne joined full-time missions with Christ for All Nations right after graduating from polytechnic.

She and her husband, Reuben, are helping to build up the Singapore branch of Fire & Rain International Ministries. Her eagerness to share the Gospel to the ends of the earth have inspired others to boldness in witnessing.

How did you get started?

“At 16, I was looking everywhere for meaning, and Christ was the answer I didn’t know I needed. When my eyes opened, I saw others still searching in the dark – friends, neighbours, people I loved. I couldn’t stay silent.

“One day in prayer, He said: ‘I have called you to the nations. It wasn’t a suggestion. It was a commissioning.’

“His love has gripped my heart – and now it moves my hands and feet.”

How have you seen God in the journey?

“I have watched God open deaf ears, restore blind eyes and give strength to lame legs. Greater still is witnessing someone truly receive Jesus. You can see the transformation in their eyes – a new peace, a new purpose. Only He can transform a heart like that.

“This is the same power that moved in the Book of Acts – alive and active today!

“My hope is to equip local believers in the nations to reach their own. They know their culture, their people. I want to train disciples who make disciples. I want to see nations transformed and His Church multiply in ways only He can get credit for.”

CHUA KIM PENG & NG LEE KENG, Missio Dei Harvest, City Harvest Church

In 2012, the couple went on their first mission trip to Indonesia. They ministered deliverance, prayed for the sick and saw salvations.

“Through that trip, God lit a holy fire in us to preach the Gospel to the ends of the earth,” said Kim Peng.

In 2014, they formed Missio Dei. By 2019, the group was sending out missions teams every week.

During COVID, they conducted “Zoom missions”, conducting rallies in various countries, praying for the sick through Zoom where God healed the sick and many were saved.

Over 11 years, they have served thousands and trained dozens of missions leaders.

How have you seen God on your journey?

“We have seen the blind see, the lame walk, the deaf hear, and even a baby who stopped breathing revived. We have engaged in spiritual warfare over oppressed lands; after years of prayer, the atmosphere shifted and communities flourished with new growth and hope.

“Time and again, God provided interpreters, resources, and labourers – always just in time. Our impact to date: More than 4,000 missionaries sent, 3,000 services conducted, 100,000 prayed for, 35,000 decisions for Christ, and 2,700 healings and deliverances – all through volunteers. Truly, this is God’s miracle.

“Every transformed life fuels our conviction. We have witnessed debts cancelled, marriages restored, bodies healed, and the homeless cared for. Our own members have been radically changed as they serve. As we water others, we ourselves are watered.

“We hope for an end-time harvest for His glory.”