Wanted: ESL Teacher/Coach for International Students
We are asking if you might be interested to help with our school’s English for Seminarians (EFS) program. You may help by being an English language coach or teaching English as Second Language (ESL) classes to our international students. Or, you may recommend someone you know to us who can teach or coach others in English as per above. You can read more about our EFS here.
We are starting the next EFS cohort in January 2025. Please email our EFS Program Director, Rev Derek Atkins (derekatkins [at] east.edu.sg) if you are interested to help or know of contacts who may be willing to help.
Any leads or assistance would be highly appreciated. Shalom.
THANK YOU for considering to help in our equipping servant leaders for the spiritual harvest in Asia and beyond.
English for Seminarian Program
East Asia School of Theology
MG Ministry Weekend Reflections – Part 2
Last week we shared part one of reflections from three Mentoring Groups (MG) on their EAST MG Ministry Weekend trips. We now present more reports from three other MGs who visited an Indochina country and a neighbouring country where Singaporeans love to go for weekend trips. To find out more, read the reflections by Dr Justine Han, Dr Raymond Go & Rev Derek Atkins, and Dr Lewis Winkler who are MG leaders.
4. Teaching and Outreach in Ho Chi Minh City – Dr Justine Han
Our MG experienced a great unity as a team in serving one another personally and while doing ministry. We had great fun and bonding times to get to know each other better. Although almost all of our ten student team members were new in going for the ministry weekend, we thoroughly enjoyed serving the hosting church members through presenting four seminars and two children outreach programs.
MG Ministry Weekend Reflections – Part 1
Praying for the needy in Cambodia, September 2024
This past September over a period of three to five days, various EAST Mentoring Groups (MG) fanned out to neighbouring countries for cross-cultural ministry in partnership with local agencies and churches. The purpose of EAST MG Ministry Weekend is to engage our faculty and students in ministering to the field needs of EAST local partners located within those countries. Below are three reflections shared by Dr Mona Bias, Dr Alvin Tey and Ms Su Panum from their experiences in leading three of these groups.
1. Ministry Among the Refugees – Dr Mona Bias
Imagine for a moment that you are without citizenship in any country. There is no chance for a good education, employment, or even of a promising future. On a daily basis, there is no certainty of food for the next meal. Along with being considered illegal, there is a constant fear of repatriation to the country that you have deliberately left behind.
Hopeless and helpless. That is exactly how one father felt over their situation. His family has been waiting for 25 years to be relocated to the USA. The same feeling of displacement and uncertainty enveloped the other refugees.
Alumni: Glimpses of Seoul Lausanne Congress 2024
Thanks to EAST alumni Guia Karla Gonzales (Team Lead), Mikeel Araña, Johanna Sampan and their team members, we get glimpses of The Fourth Lausanne Congress held in Seoul-Incheon, South Korea, 22-28 September 2024. They served as part of the Daily Highlights Video Team for the congress (see below).
L-R: Mikeel, Johanna, Guia and other members of the video team
Climate Change: A Theological Primer
Climate Change: A Theological Primer, by Rev Dr Jarred Jung
Why are we concerned with climate change? I think that a large part of climate change today is man-made climate change as our planet is warming too fast as a result of greenhouse gases. Now, I see the results are coming to fruition and do not think the correlation is just a coincidence.
With the rise of carbon dioxide omitting from things such as vehicles, cars, factories and airplanes, we have more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which leads to rising temperatures. I am not a science or climate change denier. I believe it is a big issue, which is one that Christians, in particular, need to take seriously.
How did we get to this place to where climate change is an issue? By this, I do not mean “why is there global warming?” What is at the root of this need to deal with an issue like man-made climate change? To discuss this, we are going to look at the Bible.
EAST Library Catalogue
EAST Populi
National Library Board eResources
The Digital Theological Library
