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 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.
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.
4Twelve Academy Introductory Workshops
East Asia School of Theology‘s heritage as an interdenominational theological graduate school of Campus Crusade for Christ International with over 34 years of experience in field education and ministry in Singapore has given us the privilege of working with churches and missions agencies in their ministry equipping needs. 4Twelve Academy is a new initiative of EAST that seeks to provide relevant micro-credential trainings for the laity and pastors of local churches in Singapore. In the last few months, the Academy had rolled out free introductory workshops. Designed to fit into the busy lives of marketplace believers, these sessions were aimed to give participants a taste of how practical, bite-sized biblical training could benefit them.
We gathered the feedback from our participants across three distinct modules: The Skilled Helper, Strategic Leadership in Church Operations, and Theology of Work. Here is a look at what went well, what resonated most, and how we are moving forward.
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