Alumnus: Japanese TCK Tak
Takashi (Tak) Funatogawa (japan) came to Singapore through the encouragement of Rev Edmund Chan to serve as an intern in Covenant EFC, and, a year later, to study in EAST. While studying, he and his wife, Suzuko, worked with a team of locals and Japanese to reach out to 32,000 Japanese expatriates and their families, through outreach and informal home meetings.
The former EAST Student Council President (2015) spent most of his formative years in the UK, and the USA. “As a third-culture-kid,” he says, “I know what it feels like to be an outsider.”
Missions Foundations (Day Course)
#IS409 Missions Foundations (3 credits)
Tuesdays, 9.00 am – 12.30 pm
This course focuses on God’s missions agenda throughout the Bible. In addition examples from various historical and contemporary contexts will be discussed. Participants will consider their personal role in missions today. Class is limited to BACM students.
*This course may be taken under the #FREE8ONLINE promotion.
Samuel Too, DMin,
is the Missions Head of Cru Singapore of which he has been on staff for over 25 years. He has worked with university students, pastors, and church workers. He and his wife, Agnes Kao, has served as missionaries in East Asia for 10 years. Samuel is passionate about mentoring, equipping and sending out workers for the global harvest and currently oversees missions mobilisation for Cru. His doctorate is in Leadership Development from Singapore Bible College. Samuel and Agnes have three children, ages 8-15.
This class is for the semester of 20 July to 20 November 2020. It may be conducted fully online or a combination of online and in-person depending on situation. Registration deadline is Monday, 13 July 2020. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
Building Spiritual Movements (Day Course)
#IS501 Building Spiritual Movements (3 credits)
Thursdays, 9.00 am-12.30 pm
This course provides an effective and practical approach to equip you to build communities of Spirit-filled multipliers by following Jesus’ example and strategy.
Pre-requisite: IS401 Evangelism and Follow-Up Seminar
*This course may be taken under the #FREE8ONLINE promotion.
Liong Kwok Wai, MDiv, joined Cru Singapore over 20 years ago. He has served as a leader on the campuses, and among church-planters and community leaders in Singapore and East Asia. He was also involved in training full-time Christian workers and leadership development.
This class is for the semester of 20 July to 20 November 2020. It may be conducted fully online or a combination of online and in-person depending on situation. Registration deadline is Monday, 13 July 2020. You may register online or contact us for registration form.
EAST Aleph: Welcome, New Students!
Photo by Chan Chong Hiok. Design by Tan Eng Kwang.
We welcome our new program students who have recently began their learning journey with us through EAST Aleph! How do we help new students transition well into a multicultural community of learners while physically in multiple locations due to COVID-19 restrictions? By creating multiple opportunities for interactive activities with and among the new students using online means.
The EAST Aleph two-week immersion program orientate students to the cultural and academic norms, provide spiritual and relational connections, and begin building the personal and ministry foundations for lasting transformation in their study life. For this year, online exercises are conducted to familiarise participants with effective collaborative learning and community-building platforms.
Above photo shows EAST President, Rev Dr Chan Chong Hiok, on an online Zoom session with the new students.
Contextualisation (Day Course)
#IS520/TS570 Contextualisation (2 credits)*
Wednesdays, 9.00 am-11.15 am
This class will give you tools to critically contextualise both the gospel message and ministry methods and strategies so that the gospel will be planted deeply in Asian soil.
*This course may be taken under the #FREE8ONLINE promotion.
Song Tae Suk Raymond, PhD, served with Cru for 15 years in the USA and Japan (Tokyo and Osaka), and in pastoral ministry among Korean-American churches for 19 years. He and his wife, Justine Han, also served with the Distance Education program at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (USA).
This class registration is CLOSED for new audit students (Free8Online) due to class size limit reached
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