First of all, I wish to thank all of you for your prayers and love that you have showered upon me. I am really humbled to be chosen as your Bishop. There is a gigantic task ahead for me to tackle. Without your continuous prayers and supports, I will not be able to get anything done well.

My Consecration Service and Thanksgiving Dinner went superbly well under the chairmanship of Mr. Marcus Sundram and the Chief Marshall Dean Jason Selvaraj. I praise God for the friends of the Diocese both locals and abroad. They have added colour and variety to the Consecration Service. Someone remarked to me that even my wedding day was not so grand.

I praise God for entrusting to me such a big task. I do wish to speak frankly and honestly about my impression for my first 100 days in office. In one phrase, I can say that I am “like a fish out of water”. I am so used to running around in the field and now confined from 9 to 5 in the office am awful. Administration is not my ‘cup of tea’.

I am planning to revamp the whole system so that I can have time to be in the field. We, as a Diocese, have great potential and assets to launch into the deep. Much work needs attention and focus before we can see greater results in the Diocese. The greatest assets we have are the clergy, laity and the properties we have been left with.

Meanwhile, all my days in the office have been employed for the studies of goals setting, vision casting, strategic planning, and deployment of resources. I will need everyone in the Diocese junior or senior, young or old, men or ladies, children or adults to work, share and serve together.

I wish to record a vote of thanks to my predecessors Bishop Roland Koh, Bishop John Savarimuthu, Bishop Lim Cheng Ean, Bishop M. E. Ponniah and many clergy and lay leaders who have toiled, sacrificed and loved the church over these last 37 years of our formation.

Motto: THY KINGDOM COME ---- to my life, family, career, contacts, church, community and nation.