About Urban Wheat Singapore
Who We Are · What We Do · Who We Serve · Values · Board · Partners
Who We Are
Urban Wheat Singapore is a team of Jesus followers — drawn from a range of churches, organisations, and backgrounds — who share a vision for discipleship to spread across the cities of Asia in ways that are organic, relational, and genuinely replicable.
The vision did not start with us.
It begins with a promise: the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea (Hab 2:14). And a commission: go and make disciples of all nations (Mt 28:16–20). What captivates us is not a programme to run but a movement to join — the Father drawing people to Himself, city by city, community by community, one surrendered life at a time.
Thirty years of working in Asian cities — learning what it means to make disciples in dense, complex urban settings, and watching movement dynamics take root in other parts of the world with a hunger to see the same become possible here — brought our team to Singapore.
Not through a strategic plan, but through a clear sense of God's leading.
We arrived not knowing exactly what He was doing, or how our fish and loaves connected with it. We began in prayer, gathered a few others who carried a similar hunger, and started asking the question together.
The cities of Asia carry a weight of both lostness and brokenness that existing wineskins — however good — are not reaching. We are here because we believe God has more in mind.
Discipleship, as we understand it, is not a course or a programme. It is a posture: being present in community, listening to what God is saying by His Word and through His Spirit, trusting His goodness and Father-heart, obeying what He asks, and empowering others to do the same in their own relationships and spaces. That last step — the empowering — is where multiplication begins.
Our dream is movements of disciples throughout Asia's cities: serving their communities, listening to God, responding to Him in wholeness and freedom, and helping others to discover that same invitation and pass it on.
What We Do
We work with a network of teams, disciple-makers, churches, and marketplace leaders in Asian cities who carry a burden for the lostness and brokenness around them. What we offer belongs to three areas — training, coaching, and peer learning. They are distinct, but they work together.
Training
Our training is designed for practitioners, not classrooms. The goal is never to hand you a blueprint — there are no silver bullets for what we are all navigating. Instead we aim to create space for fresh encounters with Word and Spirit, frameworks that unlock new possibilities in your context, and honest group conversation with others who are wrestling with the same questions.
Training is offered across three areas:
Exploring God Movements and Building Teams — Introduction to God Movements, Invitation to God Movements, Movement Coaching Pathways
Discipleship and Outreach — Disciple-Making Team Training, Serving Lostness & Brokenness in Urban Villages, Urban Mission Workshop, EV Boleh / Abiding Evangelism Workshop
Leadership Development — Leadership Focus, Surrender, Communities of Practice
Training is offered in multiple formats: in-person, online, hybrid, and through written and app-based resources — so that leaders can access what they need and equip their own teams without us becoming a bottleneck.
Coaching
Coaching is one-on-one and group support for leaders as they move towards the vision God has given them and towards the lostness and brokenness of their cities. This is not consulting — we are not coming in with answers. It is listening well, asking questions that help you surface what God has already placed in you, and walking alongside you as you discern your next steps in trusting obedience.
Coaching is offered in-person and online.
Peer Learning
The long-term fuel for this kind of work is rarely a training module — it is the companionship of others who are asking the same questions in different contexts. We create spaces where leaders and teams from different churches, organisations, and cities can journey together: sharing what is working and what isn't, learning from each other's contexts, and carrying one another's burdens.
Local and regional Communities of Practice are one expression of this — a learning space for leaders and teams who are leaning into disciple-making in their cities. In addition, we are part of a global community of practitioners learning with and from each other: a network of teams across Asia and beyond, each focused on their own harvest spaces, no longer carrying the weight alone.
Everything we offer is freely given. No expectation or compulsion, but an open invitation to pay it forward.
Who We Serve
We serve disciple-makers, teams, churches, marketplace communities, and mission organisations in Asian cities — people who love God and are already moving towards the lostness and brokenness around them, but who are finding that what's in their heart is larger than what existing structures can hold.
The leaders and teams we work best with are carrying a vision for their city or community that outgrows what they can personally reach. They have a burden not just for individual conversion but for wholeness — healing where there is woundedness, reconciliation where relationships are broken, peace where there is fracture. They are hungry to explore ways of making disciples that go deeper and spread further than existing programmes and wineskins allow. And they are often doing this across organisational and denominational lines, because they have realised that the harvest doesn't respect institutional boundaries.
If you are wrestling with the gap between the size of God's vision for your city and the reality in front of you — if you keep hitting obstacles that a better programme won't solve — that is exactly the conversation we want to have.
What we have found is that the obstacles rarely yield to new methods alone.
They yield to better questions brought to Word and Spirit, to honest conversation with others carrying the same burden in different contexts, and to exposure to what God is already doing in other parts of the world. We won't hand you a blueprint. We will help you discern what God has already placed in you and in the people around you.
One framework we work with distinguishes three roles in how God's people engage a city: the disciple-maker, the champion (or team-builder), and the catalyst. Each carries a different kind of ministry and needs a different kind of support. Click here for an article that will help you to explore which role resonates best for you.
Our Values
We are committed to embodying these values — not as a list to display, but as a posture to keep returning to.
Sonship & Daughterhood
Everything begins here. We are sons and daughters of a holy, righteous, loving, and patient Father-King who leads us by His Word and Spirit. Discipleship — for us and for everyone we serve — is fundamentally about learning to listen, trust, and obey Him. Not performing for Him. Not building something to impress Him. Walking with Him.
Loving Servanthood
We seek relationships that assume and seek the best in others — marked by humility, simplicity, and godly sincerity. We are not here to be platforms or experts. We are here to serve, and we want to do it in a way that reflects the character of the King we follow.
Empowering Replication
We measure success not by how many people depend on us but by how many no longer need to. Our goal is to serve the first generation of disciple-makers in ways that empower the second, down to the third and fourth. Multiplication, not accumulation.
Teamwork
We believe healthy teams go further and sustain longer than lone leaders. We are committed to doing this work together — across organisational lines, across cultures, across the silos that so often keep God's people from learning from one another.
Continuous Learning
We are fellow travellers, not experts with finished answers. There is always more to learn — from Scripture, from the Holy Spirit, from the cities we work in, and from brothers and sisters in contexts very different from our own. We want to stay genuinely open to all of it.
Our Board
Winston Chong — Chair
Winston brings more than 35 years in finance and financial planning to his role as Board Chair. As CEO of Life Planning Associates, he has built a team-centred practice focused on helping clients make clear, informed decisions about their financial future. His earlier career spanned UBS, Maybank, JP Morgan, and the major accounting firms. He also serves on the board of Mission Resources Network. Winston and his wife Hong Ngee have three adult children.
Jane has spent more than two decades as a mental health practitioner and clinician, and currently leads a mental health non-profit. She has pioneered community-based services that integrate expressive arts, sport, and outdoor activity — bringing creative and holistic approaches to spaces where brokenness is real and present. That instinct for wholeness, and for meeting people where they are, is part of what she brings to the Urban Wheat board. Outside her professional work, Jane volunteers in coaching and in outreach to seniors in her community.
Daisy's career spans more than 30 years in finance across multinational corporations, most recently as Director of Treasury and Tax Asia at PerkinElmer Singapore before retiring in 2021. She has served as church treasurer and supported the finance function of MSI Professional Services for over 20 years — consistently choosing to bring her expertise to organisations whose mission she believes in. Daisy also serves on the Urban Wheat team, keeping our accounts in order and our operations grounded. She and her husband Albert have been married for 25 years.
Jane Goh
Daisy Auyeung
Our Partners
We have always believed that what God is doing in the cities of Asia is bigger than any one organisation can carry. Collaboration is not a strategy for us — it is a conviction. The Kingdom grows as God's people learn to work across the boundaries that so often keep us separate.
We are grateful to partner with organisations that share this vision, including:
Praxeis — https://www.praxeis.org/
TwoFourEight — https://www.twofoureight.org/
SG500 — https://www.instagram.com/sg500asiacities/
This network continues to grow. If you are working towards similar goals in Asian cities and want to explore what collaboration might look like, we'd love to hear from you.
