Gospel Tool for Honour-Shame Cultures
There is a new contextualized gospel tract which targets cultures where honour and shame predominates (such as African, Asian, Middle-Eastern, etc.). It was developed by Cru based on the HonorShame Reference Bookmark. The Honor Restored gospel tract is found within the God Tools mobile app and available in multiple languages. A third-party review of the Honor Restored tract is found here.
According to the Honor-Shame Network, “about 90% of unreached people groups and 65% of the world’s population lives in honor-shame contexts.” There are additional gospel resources for reaching honour-shame cultures on the HonorShame.com website.
Picture courtesy of HonorShame.com
Sacred Parenting with EAST PIM
The EAST Partners in Ministry (PIM) program is designed for wives of seminary students, or whose husbands are ministers or in vocational Christian ministry. PIM seeks to develop wives as they grow in partnership with their husbands and in their own circle of influence.
The above photo is the PIM group who went through the fruitful 6-week course on “Sacred Parenting” with resources from Gary Thomas. The PIM ladies are so blessed by the biblically-based material and group interactions. They learnt how God uses the challenges and struggles in parenting as God’s spiritual formation curriculum to shape each parent to be more like the Heavenly Father.
Photo courtesy of Josephine Lam. A portion of text originated from Josephine Lam and Margaret Chan.
New Testament Found in the Old
The study of Genesis to Esther, through the Old Testament Narratives course, highlights that the God of the Old Testament is the same God we worship today. It has been said that “The New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New.” Many themes we find in the New Testament have their roots in the history of Israel.
The students in the class appreciated the unfolding drama of God’s redemptive plan for man. Dr Jeremy Chew, the class teacher, taught how each book advances God’s plan to raise up a chosen people and a holy nation. Indeed the New is found in the Old.
Photo courtesy of Michael Tien.
Mentoring Group’s “Band of Brothers”
The Mentoring Group (or MG) is part of the student experience at EAST. Here is one such MG that has seen its members graduating over the past couple of years with the alumni spread out over more than one continent in ministry. Read what one such upcoming graduate has to say about his “band of brothers.”
Dr Michael Tien, MDiv class of 2018, (extreme right in the photo above) shared:
This is what EAST is about. Not just equipping and shaping of the mind but transformation of the heart through ministry. Bringing together intercultural experiences gripped by the love of the Lord and for one another. We are lifted higher as we stand on one another’s shoulders. Our reach extended as we clasp our hands together to work for a common purpose. This is my band of brothers, our motto “we meet, we eat”. After our time together in Singapore, we leave for other destinations of ministry. We join this mentoring group but we never leave! To God be all Glory as we press on.
Praise God!
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