W. E. > W. E.'s Quotes

“GenerationS are Not Replacements.
GenerationS are Reinforcements.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Youth are leaders TODAY, not just tomorrow!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t just invite youths to the party,
give them a seat at the table.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t use people to build the church.
Use the church to build people.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Do the Important, Not the Impressive.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“The young generation is not here to push you OUT but to push you UP!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“GenerationS is not just reaching My Generation or
even the Next Generation. But it is reaching many GenerationS.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“GenerationS is having layers and layers of leaders at the same time.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Empower the youths, Don’t Entertain them!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Instead of laying a red carpet for yourself to walk on, lay a bridge and let the young people walk over to you.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“There are Miracles in the Mundane, Beauty in the Banal and Riches in the Routine!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“If you BABYSIT the youths, you will get BABIES.
If you LEAD the youths, you will have LEADERS!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Church is not ‘Where’ but ‘Who’.
Church is not about the Place but the People.
Church is our HOME.
Church is about the People & Relationships.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Empowered Youths become Producers.
Entertained Youths become Consumers.”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“If you don’t captivate youths now for Christ,
something else will come in to carry them captive!”
― Cecilia Chan, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Youth are leaders TODAY, not just tomorrow!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“A youth church is built by youths, for youths, to reach youths!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t just think local or global, think generational.
Think GenerationS!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t just invite youths to the party,
give them a seat at the table.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t use people to build the church.
Use the church to build people.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“From your generation onwards, it will be different.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Fathers don’t just reproduce sons.
Fathers reproduce fathers.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Be a Kingmaker, Not Just a King.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Our next generation leaders should walk in our footsteps, not in our shadow.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Going beyond “Every nation in my generation”
to “Every Generation in my nation”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Traditionally: Believe → Become → Belong
This Generation: Belong → Believe → Become”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Youths need to be invited, included, involved, before they can be influenced and impacted.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Moving from “I belong to HOGC” to “HOGC belongs to me”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Strong GenerationS Churches do not fight tomorrow’s war with yesterday’s strategies.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“HOGC is the place where friends become family
and family become friends.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church