It was at this time that the parish priest, Fr. Thomas Chin, saw the need to build a new church for worship because of the communist insurgency. Thus, in 1957 the land which was bought by Fr. Teng became the site of the church (fondly called "new" church) which had a capacity of about seven hundred seats. It took about 2 years to complete and this church was used by the parish for the next 46 years, until September 2002 when the parish moved back to Sanctuary grounds. Fr. Michael Cheah built the present new church, the construction of which began towards the end of 1998 and was completed in middle of 2002.