Operations Team: Chris Wong, David Lim & Raymond Lim
L-R: Chris Wong, David Lim & Raymond Lim
The three gentlemen behind EAST Operations Team consist of alumnus Raymond Lim who graduated with a Master of Divinity in Intercultural Studies (2019), Chris Wong, Zone Pastor of Living Sanctuary Brethren Church, who joined in 2018 and David Lim who had years of experience in the manufacturing sector. All three of them were instrumental in the EAST move from Middle Road EAST Office and Dorset Road EAST Library to Joo Chiat Road campus in 2020. Shifting the library which involved curating, packing, and moving 16,000 books to its present locale was a massive project as there was no lift available at Dorset Road campus then. By God’s grace and with the help of library staff, Mala, and many other unnamed faculty, staff and students back then, the library was safely and successfully relocated. This was amidst the Covid pandemic no less!
CCCI Announced New President in David Robbins
Campus Crusade for Christ International (CCCI, also known as Cru), a worldwide evangelism and discipleship ministry and the founding organisation of East Asia School of Theology, announced on 5 June 2024 that David Robbins will be serving as its new global president from 1 July 2024.
Newly Arrived Students: Thanawat & Phichanida Wichaphon
L-R: Rev Jonathan Yao (seated), Wong Ee Yuing, Boon-Koh Aitee, Phichanida Wichaphon (Peung), Thanawat Wichaphon (Off)
Thanawat and Phichanida Wichaphons are the first couple to have arrived in Singapore from Thailand for our new semester this June. They are better known by their nicknames Off and Peung. Off has been enrolled in Master of Arts in Intercultural Studies since July 2022 and Peung has been attending online Partners-in-Ministry classes. They are thrilled to finally take the classes at EAST on-site in the upcoming semester and have face to face interactions with faculty, students and staff.
EAST News had the opportunity to ask a few questions to get to know this “cool couple” better (as some have described them) and share their journey to EAST. Read more
PIM Graduate Salaimphy: I finally had the chance to be trained!
Sailamphy Rakhangmi, EAST PIM graduate, India
Here is the story of Sailamphy Rakhangmi who graduated in May 2024 with an EAST Certificate in Partners in Ministry (PIM). PIM is a two-year Certificate Program designed to provide a learning environment to develop wives of seminary students, wives of men in full-time ministry and wives of men in bi-vocational ministry to grow in partnership with their husbands in the Lord’s ministry.
For a long time Sailamphy, 44, who shepherds a church in New Delhi with her husband Rejoyson, hungered for ministry training. Read more
Alumnus Jacob An: Global Aid Network Korea Director
EAST Alumnus Jacob An JangRyoel, currently director of Global Aid Network (GAiN) Korea, graduated from EAST with a Master of Divinity in Teaching and Exposition in May 1998. He recently visited EAST Campus at 118 Joo Chiat Road and EAST News had an opportunity to catch up with him. He had many wonderful memories of the old campus at 1 Dorset Road and he shared a few anecdotes, “In those days, the library staff would assign the library key to a student to open and close up the library in the mornings and evenings. I became the key man. I used to be the first to arrive at the library to open the door, and the last to leave who shut it up. I learned and practiced about sincerity, hard work, and responsibility during that time.”
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