Motherhood is a sacred calling, yet it is also a season filled with weariness, spiritual battles, emotional strain, and moments when home life feels overwhelming. Many godly women quietly carry burdens that were never meant to be carried alone.
The testimonies published below from some of our young mothers remind us that the Lord has been pleased to strengthen mothers and care for their peculiar spiritual needs, through the ministry of Gethsemane Young Mothers’ Fellowship.
Spiritual growth is not always a straight upward line. Yet the Lord is faithful to keep His people when they gather under His truth, and submit their hearts afresh to Him. We are grateful that God preserves and blesses families through wise counsel and encouragement through the regular ministry of His Word in their fellowship meetings.
That is why, young mothers, your monthly gathering matters. It is not merely a social meeting. It is a small but precious means of grace—an opportunity to be reminded that you are not alone, and that the counsels of His Word taught are much needed for the home, your marriage, and the raising of children. In a world that pressures mothers to be self-reliant, God calls His daughters to be mutually strengthened in love, prayer, and truth.
Come with your burdens, your weariness, your questions, and your desire to grow. The Lord is able to use our faithful gathering each month to preserve a mother’s heart, and through her, an entire home.
Let us come together and be strengthened. As Isaiah 40:11 exhorts, “He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.”
Jenice Chee
I want to thank God for the Young Mothers’ Fellowship which has been a great blessing to me, especially so in the year 2025, where we learnt precious lessons on the series of “Motherhood—A Christlike Ministry”.
One lesson that impressed deeply on my heart was how Pastor explained that as a mother, I must be my child’s cultivator of holiness. This means that I must study God’s Word so that I may impart it to my children. And this is not only for a season, but that the truths will remain with them and guide them beyond my lifetime.
I also learnt that I must be like Christ at home. Like Jesus who is so patient and compassionate with me, I must be likewise with my children. Like Jesus who endured rejections, I too must be firm and steadfast on the truth.
Thank God for Pastor and Aunty Carolyn, the GYM committee advisors, and other mothers (young and old) that have been good examples for me to emulate. I am excited to learn about common current-day challenges in parenting through this year 2026. May God help us!
Isabel Ng
“That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed” (Titus 2:4-5).
I want to thank God for the Gethsemane Young Mothers (GYM). This was the first fellowship I attended with my daughter Annabelle (then 3 years old) when we began with Gethsemane BPC as regular visitors in Jan 2017. Truly, GYM was a blessing to my personal and family life, where I learnt timely truths from God’s Word through Pastor Koshy. It teaches me about godly submission to one’s own husband, and being a sober-minded wife and mother so that I would not jeopardise my testimony at home and destroy my family life with ungodly decisions.
To me, GYM has been a true lifeline. Time and again, God has used it to confront me with His Word and bring me into surrender to His truth, especially in seasons when family relationships grow volatile and I’m carrying the weight of raising my children full-time (children who are as sinful as I am, and in constant need of grace). Without God’s Word—and GYM—my family life would probably end up as one of those tragic, bitter stories you read about, marked by heated arguments, divorce, and children left neglected.
It was also through GYM that I became convinced that staying home full-time was the only faithful response to God, after coming to understand His heart for Christian wives and mothers through His Word. Though my children’s and my spiritual growth has not always been linear upward, and though there were many dark moments along the way, the Lord was gracious to preserve us as one family. Through many years of admonition and uplifting through GYM, He kept us intact. May God help us to “…continue in faith and charity and holiness with sobriety” (1 Timothy 2:15).
Thank God for the labours of Pastor and preachers through the years. My prayer is for more Christian sisters, especially young mothers, to come to GYM and be blessed by God for the sake of our families’ and children’s spiritually well-being. All glory be to God.
Sophia Zhang
The Gethsemane Young Mothers’ Fellowship has been a great blessing throughout my years of motherhood. I am deeply thankful for the faithful preaching of God’s Word during our meetings; it has consistently rebuked, corrected, instructed, and encouraged me. Without the guidance of God’s Word, it is so easy to be influenced by worldly parenting advice and pressures that often run contrary to biblical counsel.
I have learnt that motherhood is a Christlike ministry where I must set a godly example for my children, both through my words and actions. Even during testing moments, such as facing disobedience from the children, I am reminded to reflect God’s compassion and tender care, while leaning on His wisdom to correct and instruct my children. While motherhood comes with many challenges, I draw strength and joy from knowing that God grants the grace and wisdom required to fulfil this higher calling. I am also thankful for the prayer sessions, where we can share testimonies of God’s goodness to our families, bring our burdens before the Lord, and encourage one another through prayer. These times of fellowship have been a great source of comfort and strengthening.
As Psalm 127:1 reminds us, “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it”. We truly need to labour with the Lord to raise our children according to His ways and for His purposes. It is my prayer that more mothers with young children, and even mothers-to-be, will join us to learn God’s counsel and receive the many blessings He has promised.
Joey Peh
“He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD” (Psalm 113:9).
I praise the Lord for the Gethsemane Young Mothers’ Fellowship, which has been a constant fountain of blessing in my motherhood journey. How wonderful it is to gather, month after month, with like-minded sisters and their children — to hear God’s Word, as well as seek Him in prayer together!
In a culture saturated with parenting philosophies that contradict Scripture, the messages preached by Pastor Koshy anchor me in biblical truth. I have also been challenged to see motherhood not merely as a role I perform, but as a Christlike ministry where I must daily die to self. May God give me much grace and wisdom each day to point my son to Christ.
