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
Class of 2024 Graduates!
On 18 May 2024, EAST held her 30th Commencement at Bethesda (Bedok-Tampines) Church with 12 graduates from the Class of 2024 and some 200 guests in attendance. These graduated with certificates in Partners-in-Ministry and degrees in Graduate Diploma, Master of Arts, and Master of Divinity. The graduates came from Cambodia, East Asia, India, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore and South Korea which reflect the diverse cultures that embodies EAST.
Brandon Chan who was the Student Council President for Academic Year 2021-2022 is the worthy recipient of President’s Leadership Award and Academic Excellence Award for taking many leadership initiatives to bless the EAST community and excelling in his studies. Mikeel Misme Arana, the Student Council President for Academic Year 2022-2023 was awarded the Christian Character Award for displaying outstanding Christlikeness in his life and ministry to the EAST community and beyond. Mikeel also represented the Class of 2024 to give the Graduate’s Reflection at the Commencement Service. Below is his speech.
From BOY to MAN
S. Zarni Pyoe Wai Saing (Myanmar) recently graduated with an MDiv in Christian Ministry at EAST 28th Commencement. He is now serving as a pastor in Little Myanmar Christian Fellowship under the All Saints Presbyterian Church.
Back in Yangon, Zarni was ‘king’ at home, pampered by his homemaker mother. Dad was a trainer of NGO workers. “But I had three big bully brothers,” he adds, laughing.
So when time came for studies in 2015, he was “shy a lot.” Compared to older brother Htike, EAST alumnus and outspoken leader, he was a frightened little boy in the Lion City of Singapore. “My greatest fear was people would laugh at my weak English,” says Zarni. “That led to problems like procrastination, missing assignment deadlines, and getting into trouble with my professors.”
But God patiently worked in his life.
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