Mid 1980s to Late 1990s
Then the late Rev Lowell and Edna Ashbrook came on December 1984 until December 1988. On August 8, a second morning service was started. A third service started about a year later. Meanwhile, the Filipino Fellowship continued to grow under the direction of Moira MacPherson.
Rev Ken and Linda Benintendi became the interim pastor from December 1988 to March 1989 until Rev Jack and Mildred Ellsworth arrived on May 1989. One month after their arrival, a fourth Sunday service began at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The first service was on June 4, a date ever to be remembered by the people of Hong Kong. Under the Ellsworths’ leadership, the Family Worship Service expanded to include the Vietnamese Ministry, started by Keith Holcombe. In March 1991, Monit Brion assumed responsibility for the Filipino Fellowship and the Thai Ministry was started by Rev Wiphawan Thirasetmanakul, who arrived from Bangkok in April 1992.
Rev Leroy and Janice Cloud came in January 1992. It was at this time that ICA planted many new churches in this region; Mongolia and India. The language ministries continued to expand; Cantonese, Sri Lankan and Indonesian, In May 1993, the church bought a cinema in Chai Wan for the Filipino Congregation. The Family worship services continued to be held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre until 1997 when the congregation moved to a cinema on 483 King’s Road in North Point and was fully paid off by June 30, 1998, after 24 months of fund-raising activities. The Clouds left in 2001 but returned to Asia again to pastor ICA, Cambodia.