In Memory of Alumna Lim-Bay Wan Jee

 

In Memory of Lim-Bay Wan Jee (1973-2025), EAST Alumna 2007, MDiv ICS 

Over the past weekend, EAST Community has lost one of our best and brightest students who graduated in 2007 with a Master of Divinity in Intercultural Studies – Bay Wan Jee. The Lord has called her home. All who know her and have been touched by her gentleness and warmth will cherish our memories with her in our hearts. She graduated from EAST with an Academic Excellence Award, earned by those who are top of their MDiv cohort academically. Wan Jee has also served as a missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) for 15 years from 2008 after her graduation from EAST. Her ministry was with the elderly in Japan. But when she was undergoing cancer herself and had to go through pain, hers was also a ministry of pain among cancer patients whom she could relate to and empathise with.

Below are eulogies by her teachers and friends about “whose” and “who” she is with the resultant impact on others. Hers was a life well lived for Christ. Aptly, her theme verse for her obituary was, “For to me, to live is Christ, to die is gain” Phil 1:21 (NIV). Her life quote came from Jim Elliott: “He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.”

“Wan Jee was a joy to have as a student. All of papers were excellent, exceeding the highest standards and more importantly she was specific and clear how she would be applying or was already applying the lessons in her life. She had a wonderful spirit combining head, heart and hands. She was the kind of student who blessed her teachers and classmates with a burning heart to serve the Lord as a missionary!”

– Dr Rick Langston (former EAST resident faculty who taught Wan Jee on missions-related classes)

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