Celebrating Mongolian New Year in Singapore
Mongolian Community celebrating Tsagaan Sar “White Moon” (Mongolian Lunar New Year) on 18 February 2026 in Singapore.
Chinese all over the world, including Singapore, ushered in Chinese New Year on 17 February with most families gathering on the eve of the New Year for Reunion Dinners. The Mongolian Community at EAST ushered in their Lunar New Year a day later on 18 February, celebrating Tsagaan Sar “White Moon” together by making beef dumplings called Buuz. Traditionally, each family back home will make 1000 to 1200 Buuz to last for three to four days of their Mongolian New Year.
AGSTA-EAST Doctor of Ministry Inaugural Graduation
Asia Graduate School of Theology Alliance (AGST Alliance) and East Asia School of Theology (EAST) partnered to offer the Doctor of Ministry in Leadership (DMin) program. While the program was opened to all EAST alumni, it was primarily alumni serving with Korea Campus Crusade for Christ (KCCC) who finally enrolled on the program.
The DMin graduation ceremony of the inaugural cohort (that began in 2018) was conducted at Seoul, South Korea on 15 October 2025. Heartiest congratulations to all the five graduates! We are so proud of your faithful dedication to complete the program despite your busy schedule as leaders of the ministry. Read more
Alumna Worchuirin Horam: Bringing Food to the Needy
Worchuirin “Achui” Horam, Manipur (NE India)
Achui has graduated with an EAST Master of Arts in Leadership (MALD) in May 2025.
At the height of Covid-19 in 2021, a group of ladies raised some funds for pandemic-victims in India. Among those who hand-delivered rice, flour and oil to needy families in Delhi was Achui.
A year later, the ten-year high school teacher felt God’s call to enter full-time ministry. “And so I came to EAST,” says Achui. “But God’s curriculum was nothing I’d imagined.”
In April 2024, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. Read more
Alumnus Amos Chew: Let Others Feed Us
Amos is doing pottery as part of his FIRM (Formation, Integration, Reflection and Ministry) class.
Amos, 34, believes that as a leader, he must let others feed him.
“We cannot stop learning,” says the UK-trained sports coach who served on missions in the Philippines, and was trained by GLO in Australia.
The former teacher among students with learning difficulties finds meeting people from diverse ministries and denominations at EAST enriching. Read more
In Memory of Alumna Lim-Bay Wan Jee
In Memory of Lim-Bay Wan Jee (1973-2025), EAST Alumna 2007, MDiv ICS
On 8 March 2025, EAST Community lost one of our best and brightest students who graduated in 2007 with a Master of Divinity in Intercultural Studies – Bay Wan Jee. The Lord has called her home. All who know her and have been touched by her gentleness and warmth will cherish our memories with her in our hearts. She graduated from EAST with an Academic Excellence Award, earned by those who are top of their MDiv cohort academically. Wan Jee has also served as a missionary with Overseas Missionary Fellowship (OMF) for 15 years after her graduation from EAST. Her ministry was with the elderly in Japan. But when she was undergoing cancer herself and had to go through pain, hers was also a ministry of pain among cancer patients whom she could relate to and empathise with.
Wan Jee married later in life with Siah Chuan on 31 December 2021 and though the Lord had only granted them over three years together, they loved each other deeply. Below is Siah Chuan’s heartfelt tribute of Wan Jee:
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