Wife of a Leader
Rev Liong Kwok Wai and wife Award Recipient Agnes Lim Chiao Minn
Agnes Lim, 48, is passionate about winning, building and developing women, especially wives of Christian leaders.
The Singapore Cru staff’s convictions grew from more than 20 years of ministry experience on the National University of Singapore, her alma mater, and the mission field.
As a missionary for ten years with her husband, Rev Liong Kwok Wai (EAST’S Academic Dean), Agnes has ministered to singles, wives of pastors and leaders, professionals as well as homemakers. As a member of the regional women’s team, she helped organize conferences to minister to women missionaries, church-planters, and lay leaders.
Thanksgiving for EMH Facilities
In June 2019, EAST leadership found a five-storey building at 118 Joo Chiat Road that seemed tailormade for EAST. It could house our offices, library and classrooms under one roof and purchased this building together with CRU Singapore’s partnership and help. The building, now affectionately called our EAST Mission Hub cost $17.8m. EAST has to raise $8m for the use of the third, fourth and fifth storey of the building. By God’s grace, $6m has been raised to date with a current shortfall of about $2m. From being founded in a meeting room at CRU’s Great Commission Training Center, then moving to Parish of Christ Church’s rented facilities at 1 Dorset Road, EAST has not had a permanent home since 1992.
EAST 27th Commencement
This year, EAST held our 27th Commencement at EAST Mission Hub and livestreamed it to over 100 viewers on Youtube and Zoom. It was a celebration of the graduation of both 2020 and 2021’s cohorts of graduates from EAST’s resident school in Singapore and a cohort of East Extension Centre’s (EEC) graduates from East Asia. We had 23 graduates from 2020, 11 graduates from 2021 and 18 graduates from EEC, in total 52 graduates at the commencement. 4 graduated from Partners-in-Ministry Certificate, 3 from Graduate Diploma, 22 from Bachelor of Arts in Christian Ministry, 11 from Master of Arts, and 12 from Master of Divinity. The graduates come from East Asia, Central Asia, Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mongolia, Myanmar and the Philippines.
Want to catch a glimpse of 27th Commencement Service? See below for the video and click here to view the Commencement 2021 magazine.
Locked down for good
Thomas Kwok Chuek Hang (Hong Kong), MDiv Teaching & Exposition
When Singapore went into ‘Circuit Breaker’ on 7th April 2020 to curb the spread of COVID-19, Thomas Kwok’s world was turned upside down and inside out.
“All schools, offices, and eating places were closed,” says the Information Engineering graduate from Chinese University of Hong Kong. “We couldn’t go out except to do basic essentials like getting groceries and doing exercises.”
So, to escape from being cooped up in the dorm, Thomas took to exercising outdoors every day. This developed into a routine that made all the difference to his final days at EAST.
Partners in Ministry eOpen House
EAST Partners-in-Ministry (PIM) Program headed by Mrs Margaret Chan and supported by PIM Faculty like Mrs Agnes Liong, Mrs Yao Eng Meng and Mrs Josephine Li held its inaugural eOpen House on 10 May. A total of 29 participants with past PIM Alumni and potential students were in attendance. The alumni who attended shared how the PIM Program had benefitted them in their lives and ministries. The potential students were able to ask questions in a more intimate setting through 5 breakout sessions in smaller groups over Zoom and find out more details of the PIM Program.
EAST Library Catalogue
EAST Populi
National Library Board eResources
The Digital Theological Library
