Pastor Ter was led to Christ by a deacon after an evening service at Singapore Bible Baptist Church (SBBC) on the 21st of August 1977 and was baptized and added to the Church on the 6th of November that same year. Eight months later, he was accepted by SBBC as a voluntary staff. His role involved interpreting and teaching in the newly founded ministry to the hearing impaired. There he was introduced to Sister Jessie who was the pioneer of that new ministry. Not long after that both of them were blissfully wedded and in time, became parents to a tribe of eleven children. In May 1987, Pastor Ter was commissioned as a missionary by Shalom Baptist Church under the leadership of Pastor Wee. He was then sent out to start his first mission work in Penang Island, Malaysia, where it continues to this day.