Upon overcoming the virus, Pastor Wilson spoke at the Summit to share s o me of the lessons that the Lord has shown him through the ordeal so that others may navigate the post-pandemic world with God’s strength, wisdom and direction. The Summit is an annual affair for pastors and Christian leaders in Singapore to gather together and unite as one in serving the Church at large and seeking the welfare of Singapore through prayer and other platforms.įor the first time since 1996, the Summit was held in Singapore instead of overseas, via a mix of in-person meetings at Victory Family Centre in Tampines and Sembawang, as well as Zoom sessions online. The three-day conference brought participants from 107 churches and 36 Christian organisations together. There was so much uncertainty and fear,” said Pastor Teo who gave the opening message at this year’s Pastors’ Summit. We were in the same hospital gowns and had the same Zoom background. Half of the leadership team from my church were in NCID with me. “This happened only one month after I took over Grace Assembly as its Senior Pastor. His family was split three ways – he was in National Centre for Infectious Diseases (NCID), his wife and second daughter at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital (KKH) because they had a higher than normal temperature and his eldest daughter and youngest son had to be isolated at home. Not only did he face a personal health crisis and a family crisis, he also faced a leadership crisis.īack then, little was known about the virus and, being one of the first few to come down with it, it felt like a death sentence to him, he said.
“It was the toughest year of my life … no seminary can prepare you for that,” he told the audience of pastors and leaders on the first day of the Pastors’ Summit 2021. Together with 17 other staff members from his church who were also infected with the coronavirus, Grace Assembly of God became the largest religious cluster for the virus in Singapore and was promptly shut down to contain any possible spread of the disease. Pastor Teo had tested positive for Covid-19 in February last year. It is permanent and will take us down another path of doing things.” Three crises at once “It is not temporary and things will not go back to how it was before once the pandemic is over. “This pandemic is not an interruption but a disruption,” said Senior Pastor Wilson Teo from Grace Assembly of God, who was speaking at the LoveSingapore Pastors’ Summit today (Jan 12). Now he has one word for marketplace leaders and pastors who want to lead well in our rapidly changing, post-pandemic world: Agility. Pastor Wilson Teo has learnt a thing or two about surviving and adapting, having been one of the earliest survivors of Covid-19 in Singapore.
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