To build a community of God’s people who bears the presence of God to fulfill the Great Commission through discipleship, church planting and missions.
To grow to be a Tabernacle Church denomination in Asia with a biblical distinctive as "kerygmatic". Kerygmatics are defined as Spirit-filled believing Christians whose principles, practice and persons are consonant, at both the individual and corporate levels of exercise, in proclaiming the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
To school, train and equip every believer to be kerygmatic so that each one will fulfill the following goals:
- To demonstrate the strong presence of God through the disciplined exercise of the fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit
- To evidence spiritual growth by doing every good work that He has commanded us, being careful not to adopt a privatised approach to holiness that lacks a meaningful sense of belonging to a community
- To prove discipleship through the winning of souls and in enfolding them as responsible members of our church
Dr. David Jeremiah
SEAH Hok Heng
Founder, Senior Pastor
The Tabernacle Church and Missions (TCM) was founded by Senior Pastor Dr. David Jeremiah Seah Hok Heng and started its first worship service at Bible House Chapel in 1975. It was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 1977. TCM started to send missionaries to Philippines and Thailand, and trained overseas church workers in Singapore in the 1980s. To date, we have two overseas churches, Tabernacle of Philippines in Davao, Philippines (incorporated as The Tabernacle Church & Missions Philippines Inc.) and Thai Tabernacle Church in Chiang Mai, Thailand. God has also richly blessed TCM with four properties in Singapore located at 51 Windsor Park Road, 357 Pasir Panjang Road, 64 Tanjong Katong Road and 20 Aljunied Road (renamed as Asian Pastoral Institute).
A significant milestone achieved by TCM was the inauguration of Asian Pastoral Institute (API) in 1999 as a training school with a cross-disciplinary and Asian spirituality perspective. Asian Pastoral Institute Limited (a subsidiary of TCM) was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 2015 and was registered as a charity in 2022. Currently, API’s Diploma in Pastoral Studies, Graduate Diploma in Pastoral Studies, Bachelor of Arts in Pastoral Studies, Master of Arts in Pastoral Studies, Master of Divinity, Graduate Diploma in Counselling, and Master of Arts in Counselling and Community Work are accredited by the Asia Theological Association. The Doctorate in Counselling programme was introduced in September 2021. The core modules of the Graduate Diploma in Counselling, the Master of Arts in Counselling and Community Work, and the Doctorate in Counselling meet the requirements of Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC) and the International Registry of Counsellor Education Programmes (IRCEP). API also launched the Adult Christian Education (ACE), a structured modular Christian education programme for pre-believers and believers in 2012. In addition, it started the API Care & Counselling (APICC), the counselling and community service arm of API in 2018.
The Bible is the inspired Word of God, the written record of His supernatural revelation of Himself to humankind, absolute in its authority, complete in its revelation, final in its content, and without any error in its teachings.
God, the Creator of heaven and earth, is One God. This eternal God exists eternally in three Persons – the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. These three Persons are One God, having precisely the same nature, attributes, and perfection, and are worthy of the same homage and obedience.
Jesus Christ the eternal Son became incarnate by virgin birth. He is truly God and truly human. By His sinless human life, suffering, divine miracles, death, resurrection and ascension, He provided the only way of salvation. Presently He intercedes for us before God the Father awaiting the day when He will come again to earth the second time, personally, bodily and visibly to establish His eternal kingdom.
The Holy Spirit has come into the world to reveal and glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to humankind. He convicts and draws sinners to Christ, imparts new life to them, continually indwells them from the moment of spiritual birth and seals them until the day of redemption. By the present power of the indwelling Holy Spirit, every believer who puts faith in Jesus Christ is empowered to live life abundantly and fully to worship, witness and work for God, having been endued with the fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
All humankind in their natural state are lost, alienated from God, and spiritually dead. Salvation is only by grace, a free gift of God, through faith in the Lord Jesus who died for our sins according to the Bible. Those who thus receive Christ by faith have their sins forgiven, their hearts cleansed, are born of the Holy Spirit, become children of God, and are made new creatures in Christ.
Jesus Christ is the Head of the Church, His Body, which is composed of all humankind, living and dead, who have been joined to Him through saving faith. God admonishes His people to assemble together regularly for worship, for participation in ordinances, for edification through the Scriptures and for mutual encouragement.
At physical death, the believer enters immediately into eternal, conscious fellowship with the Lord and awaits the resurrection of the body to everlasting glory and blessing. At physical death, the unbeliever enters immediately into eternal, conscious separation from the Lord and awaits the resurrection of the body to everlasting judgment and condemnation.
It is the duty and privilege of every believer of every church of the Lord Jesus Christ to endeavour to make disciples of all nations. In carrying out this work there is needed the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit as expressed in the gifts of the Spirit. Every believer must therefore be empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Crystal Tabernacle
Senior Pastor
Associate Senior Pastor
Associate Senior Pastor
Centre Pastor
Associate Pastor (Lay)
Associate Pastor (Lay)
Assistant Pastor
Assistant Pastor
Assistant Pastor
Assistant Pastor
* away on overseas missions
** away on overseas study
Charis Tabernacle
Centre Pastor
Associate Pastor
Associate Pastor (Lay)
Assistant Pastor
Assistant Pastor
Assistant Pastor
* away on overseas missions
Mizpah Tabernacle
Senior Pastor
Associate Senior Pastor
Centre Pastor
Assistant Pastor (Lay)
Shekinah Tabernacle
Associate Senior Pastor
Centre Pastor
Associate Pastor (Lay)
Assistant Pastor (Lay)
Senior Pastor