In 2025 the first Journey to Holiness Retreat was held in Singapore. Each retreatant received a handbook with the message outlines for the five sessions. Its opening welcome letter, from Noel Goh, is reproduced below.
Welcome to the inaugural Retreat for Journey to Holiness. The Lord has opened the door in 2025.
We are in much prayerful anticipation to make this retreat with you.
You have chosen to set aside time from a busy world and ministry to give God the unhurried attention needed to better hear his voice.
Even Jesus himself recognised this need and had counselled his disciples in Mark 6:31 to come apart with him to a quiet and desolate place to rest. A retreat with big numbers cannot offer the solitude and silence of a quiet and desolate place to rest. Hence, with only 8 rooms in a cosy homely setting separated from a large church, this venue offers a beautiful space to be still before God.
While I am very happy to have discovered how conducive is this exterior, I believe, our interior needs the power of silence and stillness the bible talks about. Silence is not just the absence of sound but an intentional pause to hear more clearly God's call to be holy, as he is holy.
Will you therefore, decisively and deliberately leave everything in your mind and the world to set aside this time and space wholly and solely for the Lord? Indeed, take time to be holy as this hymn goes.
May you rediscover afresh who God is and his call on your life in this next 48 hours or so.
With you — in Him and for His glory
Noel Goh
For your own retreat
You do not have to wait for a retreat to begin. Choose a quiet place, set aside the time, and leave your phone in another room. Read Mark 6:30–32 slowly. Then sit in silence before God, and listen for His call to be holy, as He is holy.
When you are ready to take the whole journey, register for the seminar. We will send you the dates and the message outlines to prepare with.