All Souls’ Church (Abbreviation: ASC) is located in the Cameron Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia.
[1] The then committee members were Captain Hugh Fitzherbert Bloxham (Police Force, Tanah Rata), Mr. E.G. Waller (District Officer), Major Raymond Thomas (Commander, OC Troops), Major W.R. Stokes (Headmaster, Slim School), Mr. Hogarth (Chefoo School), Mr. Whitelaw (District Engineer), Rev.
The history of ASC dates back to the 1950s when the Vicar of St. John’s Church in Perak and other expatriate clergy held regular services at the Cameron Highlands Hotel (now the Cameron Highlands Resort), the Eastern Hotel (which is the present site of the Century Pines Resort), Slim School (currently the home of the Malaysian Commando Unit) and Tanglin Boarding School (which is now Bala’s Holiday Chalet).
Anthony Charles Dumper[3] visited the congregation at Slim School in early 1950.
The first confirmation service was held in 1952 During the Malayan Emergency (1948–1960) there was a rapid increase in the number of British troops stationed in the Cameron Highlands.
Army chaplains visited the “Camerons” to hold weekly services at either the Eastern Hotel or Slim School.
In early 1958, Miss Anne L.P. Griffith-Jones, OBE (1890–1973) transferred a piece of land near the Slim School grounds to the diocese on the understanding that a church would be built on it.
The British Armed Forces provided a dismantled Nissen hut for erection as a church and also donated a sum of RM$1,000 towards the total erection costs of RM$4,643.
[1] Part of this money also came from the European planter families from Kampong Kuantan and Kuala Selangor.
A small church is being erected in Cameron Highlands for inter-denominational Christian worship on land which was formerly a part of Tanglin School playground.
Donations will be appreciated from Tanglin Old Boys and Girls who would like to be associated with the church and from past and present Slim School pupils, and from those who have happy memories of holidays spent in the Highlands.
At the outset, ASC was ministered to by chaplains of the British Armed Forces and the expatriate clergy from the Overseas Missionary Fellowship who were seconded to the Diocese of West Malaysia.
K. Kalaimuthu who was licensed by the late Bishop Tan Sri John G. Savarimuthu on 21 August 1994.
On 30 August 1998 the Bishop Tan Sri Datuk Dr. Lim Cheng Ean inaugurated ASC as a Missionary District, with Rev.
The mid-week Holy Communion Service is conducted on Wednesday, the Kg.