Mrs Lilian Tng has been serving in pastoral ministry for more than 30 years in churches while living in Singapore, and in Sydney where she now resides permanently.  She and her husband are the Senior Pastors of ROCK Worship Centre in Sydney. She is actively involved in pastoral care and counselling for young people in crisis and for couples with marital problems. 

Mrs Lilian Tng is the founder of GEM Ministry in Australia & Philippines and GEM New Start Centre Limited in Singapore which reach out to girls and women in crisis in these countries. She is passionate in her endeavor to help these girls and women to be set free from emotional baggages due to their failures, setbacks and despairs in life; and to receive healing to their wounded spirit. She strongly believes that every women deserves to shine like a precious gem, living a life of God’s given destiny. 

Mrs Lilian Tng is also actively involved in counselling and community work in the less developed countries.

Mrs Caroline Kwan, Executive Chairman of GEM New Start Centre (GEM NSC) is a businesswoman.

She is a woman with a big heart and holds a strong conviction that every girl/woman deserves a second chance despite their negative pasts and setbacks in life.

It was this passion to help women in crisis that moved her to partner with Mrs Lilian Tng to start GEM NSC, to be a beacon of hope for those who are seeking to turn from their wrongs to live right again!

Mrs Wendy Wong graduated from the University of Singapore with LLB (Hons) in 1978 and was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1979 and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales in 1995. Mrs Wong is a Commissioner for Oaths and a Notary Public. Mrs Wong holds the designation of a Trust and Estate Practitioner since 31 July 2006 when she was admitted as a full member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Mrs Wong is a non-executive director of GEM New Start Centre Limited, a registered charity with a mission to reach out to and assist hurting young girls and women-in-need. She is also a non-executive director of Junior Achievement (Singapore) Limited, a registered charity with a mission to inspire and prepare students from kindergarten to tertiary level for their future through life skill courses on entrepreneurship, work-readiness and financial literacy.

Mrs Wong is a Trustee of the Crescent Girls’ School Alumnae Association Trust Fund which is also a registered charity. Mrs Wong has served as a member of the Crescent Girls’ School Advisory Committee since 1986 and was the said committee’s Chairperson from June 2008 to June 2018. She was honoured with the Ministry of Education Service to Education Award (0-19 years) in 1998 and the Ministry of Education Service to Education Award (20 years & Above) in 2008.

Ms Jesslyn Ng was first introduced to GEM’s work back in 2013 and started serving as a volunteer befriender with GEM.  Her encounters with the women in need had significantly impacted her life as she witnessed the transformation of individual lives and saw how they overcome their difficult past through GEM’s restorative programme.  She is glad to be a part of this life transforming mission and to witness these young lives embracing their future with faith and hope.

Ms Jesslyn Ng had worked in the corporate sector for 30 years before moving on to her present job as a South Asia Strategic and Operation Facilitator with Trans World Radio (TWR), a non-for-profit organization which uses FM radio stations to globally transmit messages of hope in over 275 languages. Her current position has broadened her horizon to see that this message of hope, such as what the work of GEM New Start Centre brings, is indeed what the world needs!

Mr Tan Beng Wee is a full-time music instructor in wind instruments, working mainly in primary and secondary schools as well as tertiary institution. He holds a Specialist Diploma in Band Directing (NTU/NIE).

He has been a music instructor since 1982, after his National Service serving as a regular in the Singapore Armoured Regiment Band and the Republic of Singapore Air Force Band. An experienced music instructor, Mr Tan Beng Wee had also performed for many years as a French horn player with the Singapore Youth Orchestra and the Singapore Philharmonic Orchestra. He also conducts community bands and the school bands that he coaches, in concerts as well as in music competitions.

He had also served in music associations such as the Band Directors’ Association of Singapore (BDAS) and the Wind Bands Association of Singapore (WBAS).