Happy Teacher’s Day 2026!
Happy Teacher’s Day 2026! We Appreciate You!
As Singapore celebrates Teachers’ Day on 4 September 2026, we at East Asia School of Theology (EAST) give thanks for the teachers who faithfully invest in the lives of our students. At EAST, teaching goes beyond imparting knowledge. It is about forming the whole person—Head, Heart and Hands—equipping men and women to think biblically, grow in Christlike character, and serve faithfully wherever God calls them. But what does a good teacher look like through the eyes of a student? Three current EAST students—Joel De Vera from the Philippines, Candy from Indochina, and Themreiso Lamlang Awungshi from Manipur, India—share how their teachers have shaped not only what they know, but also how they live, serve, lead and follow Christ.
Alumna Pang Xin Xian: Joy of Seeing God’s Fingerprints
Pang Xin Xian (Singapore), MDiv ICS On September 25, 2025, the Field Education class went for a wheel-throwing formation workshop. Here is Xin Xian’s reflection.
We felt very excited as it was the first time to the pottery for everyone. Many lessons stood out for me. The first was that wheel-throwing is a slow and repetitive process, which requires many rounds of spinning. A few times, I exerted too much or too little pressure and my clay went wobbly. Thank God that the instructor was always on hand to re-center my clay. This spoke to me of God’s work in my life, and how He is always there even though it feels like I am just going around in circles.
Cross Cultural Team Internships 2026 Reflection
CCTI Teams 2026
During the recent school break, three teams of EAST students travelled overseas to minister through Cross Cultural Team Internships (CCTI). Here are their reflections as they look back on their experiences and impact made at their mission fields. As one of the teams went to a creative access country, we will only be reporting on the teams that went to Mongolia and Thailand.
New Student Rebecca Liow – A heart for Japan, Led to EAST
Rebecca (second from the left) with her EAST Mentoring Group
Below is a brief introduction of a new student Rebecca Liow, a Singaporean who has a heart for Japan. She is enrolled in Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies and she is a member of Covenant Evangelical Free Church in Singapore. She shares about being led to study at EAST, the EAST Aleph immersion experience, and her plans after her studies.
What led you to study at EAST?
The straightforward answer is that the Lord called me to study in this season and He opened the EAST door for me.🙂 I had been in discussion with my coordinator regarding the possibility and necessity of going through a minimal 2-year programme at a registered bible school and really only came to a definite conclusion on the last week of May or first week of June. I knew that the start of the new academic year will be in July and I assumed that there would not be a chance for me to get enrolled this year. So my very first email to EAST was to request for an application for January 2027 intake.
Dr Alvin Tey: Missiological Implications From The Singapore General Household Survey 2025
The post below is written by Dr Alvin Tey, an EAST Resident Faculty in Intercultural Studies. He concurrently serves with Operation Mobilisation (OM), where he leads the People and Organizational Development team in OM East Asia.
Missiological Implications From The Singapore General Household Survey 2025
The latest General Household Survey in Singapore (GHS 2025) [1] was released on 30 June 2026. It revealed that the overall percentage of Christians in Singapore declined from 18.9% in 2020 to 17.1% in 2025. This was the first quantitative decline of Christianity in Singapore since the Department of Statistics of Singapore started collating religious statistics in 1980. Of note, the percentage of Protestant Christians in Singapore declined from 11.9% in 2020 to 9.5% in 2025, while the percentage of Roman Catholic Christians in Singapore actually increased from 7.0% in 2020 to 7.6% in 2025.
There have already been good articles [2] written to examine the decline of Protestant Christianity in Singapore, and I shall not repeat the analysis of these articles. Instead, I shall suggest three learning points and implications from the missiological perspective for the wider Church in Asia.
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