Last week, we heard about the Polar Story – an amazing story of how a family business can last 94 years!

Kate managed the business for about 20 years. On business and personal trips overseas, she would have divine appointments. Now, these are not prearranged, pre-planned trips. Instead, the occurrences seem to coincidental, except they happened so frequently they cannot be mere chance.

Re-tyrement

The Polar Café’s very existence from 1926 till the present – through 94 years – is a testament of God’s faithfulness. Many unexpected things happened, but the business was kept going – from its early beginnings, through the Japanese Occupation, its founder’s death, economic turbulence. The business experienced God’s protection and provision through them  all.

Beginnings

Last week, we heard how true love developed only after Dick and Kate got married.

Their two sons, Jonathan and David Cheah now in their forties, are testament of God’s favour and grace.

For Kate, the possibility of bearing children was slim. Medical tests showed that she had only 1 ovary. She also had severe endometriosis – a condition when the tissue lining of the womb which is supposed to grow inside the womb, grows outside it. This can cause trouble to conceive. These 2 conditions made her more than 90% barren.

Everyone loves a good love story! I am sure you do, too!

Boy Meets Girl, Boy and Girl Fall in Love, Get Married, Live Happily Ever After ….    

Or was it? Kate’s marriage to Dick Cheah was different.

Kate first met Dick Cheah when she was 13 years old. Being neighbours, Kate’s brother and sisters were friends with Dick. But Kate, though acquainted with him, hardly talked with him.

Every Monday morning at the Melbourne Bible Institute, missionaries from Australia spoke about their work in places that was out of their comfort zones. Kate heard their stories of how they worked among the poor and with lepers, how they walked for miles through jungle, wading through swamps, battling fierce sandstorms, through sickness and pain, being thrown into prisons, encountering life-threatening situations. They were willing to go through all this to share the gospel with people living in faraway places and in harsh conditions.

In the last episode, we heard how the Friday Bible Class impacted Kate during her secondary school years.

After the ‘O’ Level Cambridge examinations at Secondary Four, Kate went on to a three-year Teachers’ Training Course. About 6 months before graduation, her friend, Hian Mee, from the Friday Bible Class, asked her, “Kate, would you like to go with me to study Theology in Melbourne?” Kate was surprised but she answered, “If it is God’s will, I will go with you.” Kate didn’t mean it – and couldn’t have realised how prophetic her words were.

Hello friends, thank you for staying with us on Sweet Memories, Sweet Success, an autobiography by Mrs Kate Cheah.

Last week, we heard about the faith of Kate’s parents, especially that of her mother. Today, let’s listen to how Kate spent her younger years.

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A Christian version of old English nursery rhyme goes like this:

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,

She had so many children and loved them all, too.

Introduction

Today, we begin a new series, Sweet Memories, Sweet Success. It is based on an autobiography by Mrs Kate Cheah.

Dear listeners, we have come to the final talk of our series of twelve on Old Testament Survey. We began with the emphasis that the Old and the New Testament together form one Bible as the written Word of God. We went on to cover each category and every book of the Old Testament from Genesis to Malachi.

Welcome to talk eleven of our series of twelve. Today we shall complete our coverage of Old Testament prophecy by looking into the twelve books of the minor prophets. These are Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi. These are the twenty eighth to the thirty ninth books of the Old Testament. Malachi is the last book of the Old Testament.