Facilitating Small Groups Online – Workshop for Sisters
As part of the “Sisters in Ministry Toolbox” series of workshops, Mrs Josephine Li will be conducting the session on “How to facilitate an engaging small group online.” This FREE ONLINE workshop will cover practical tips to engage learners through inviting physical and technical set-up and facilitation techniques specifically for an online setting.
This is a great training opportunity for yourself and/or other small group leaders in your church! ALL SISTERS are warmly invited to join the workshop!
Date/Time: 11 September 2021, Saturday, 3.00 PM – 6.00 PM (SG Time).
Registration deadline: 3 September 2021.
Chapel Services and Community Building
A few weeks back when the numbers of Singapore’s community cases of COVID-19 were rising, the whole country went back into Phase 2 of Heightened Alert with enhanced safe management measures. As a result, all our classes went back fully online, along with our weekly chapel services. How did it impact our community building?
Singapore National Day Parade 2021
The theme for Singapore National Day Parade 2021 (NDP2021) is “Together Our Singapore Spirit.” It was postponed this year due to COVID-19 “Heightened Alert” restrictions to 21 August 2021 (traditionally it was held on the National Day, 9th August). It was very well done even with the constraints of the parade’s rehearsals and performance being executed with safe management measures in place. We pray for a Singapore spirit that reflects the righteous compassion of Psalm 33:12 and practice the merciful justice of Micah 6:8.
According to the “live” broadcast blurb, NDP2021 is about the “Singapore Spirit.” Through three locally produced animated short films, “the show captures the pain of isolation and hardship experienced by several individuals, the struggles they faced to survive and the friends they made that helped them triumph.” The NDP is thus a reflection on Singapore’s past and a review of the way ahead.
Dean of Students: “God, my life belongs to you.”
L to R: Lazary (17), Lisbeth (21), Siew Leng, Casey Lok, Latricia (14), Lemuel (25)
Rev Dr Casey Lok and his wife Siew Leng are no strangers to EAST. Even before Casey joined EAST as a resident faculty in 2015, Casey was with EAST as a student and graduated in 2007 with a Master of Divinity in Teaching and Exposition. He went on to obtain a Doctor of Ministry in Pastoral Theology in Practice from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 2017, and was ordained as a Minister by the Association of Mission Practising Churches in 2019. In 2018, he was appointed Associate Dean of Students to assist the then Dean of Students Dr Roland Tan. In July 2021, Casey stepped up to be the new Dean of Students.
Prayer Pointers – 19 August 2021
“Rejoice always,pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18; Philippians 4:7, ESV)
How can we as a people of God “give thanks” amid an ongoing global pandemic with 208 million cases and which has claimed 4.4 million lives? While we grieve for each death, we are also quietly grateful for the 188 million who have fully recovered, and the 4.5 million vaccine doses administered. How can we “rejoice” over the violence and fear gripping Afghanistan especially among the followers of Christ? Our response is to “pray without ceasing” whereupon he promised a shalom peace “which surpasses all understanding” as a guard over the hearts and minds of those who do so (Philippians 4:7).
Source: WHO Coronavirus Dashboard (covid19.who.int), 17 August 2021 (CEST).
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