Tan Seow How > Quotes

“Youth are leaders TODAY, not just tomorrow!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Traditionally: Believe → Become → Belong
This Generation: Belong → Believe → Become”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t just think local or global, think generational.
Think GenerationS!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“A youth church is built by youths, for youths, to reach youths!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Strong GenerationS Churches do not fight tomorrow’s war with yesterday’s strategies.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Going beyond “Every nation in my generation”
to “Every Generation in my nation”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Our next generation leaders should walk in our footsteps, not in our shadow.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Moving from “I belong to HOGC” to “HOGC belongs to me”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Be a Kingmaker, Not Just a King.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“From your generation onwards, it will be different.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Fathers don’t just reproduce sons.
Fathers reproduce fathers.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“HOGC is the place where friends become family
and family become friends.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Youths need to be invited, included, involved, before they can be influenced and impacted.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t use people to build the church.
Use the church to build people.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Don’t just invite youths to the party,
give them a seat at the table.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Church is not ‘Where’ but ‘Who’.
Church is not about the Place but the People.
Church is our HOME.
Church is about the People & Relationships.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Disneyland may be the happiest place on earth but nobody lives there. Disneyland is not a home. When the show is over”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“While we are “waiting for them to be older,” their hearts are being captivated by another vision. Year after year, we lose them emotionally and spiritually. By the time we deem them “old enough,” we would have lost them physically too.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“In order to build your church like a home”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“church is not about a place but about its people. Church is about who!”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“You can’t bring change until you are first changed.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Now your initial goal is just to make the youths feel that they belong so that they will keep coming back.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“When they Belong”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church

“Church is about the people and relationships.”
― Tan Seow How, How to Grow Your Church Younger and Stronger: The Story of the Kids who Built a World-Class Church