Are People Feeling Lonely in Church?
Are you lonely? If you are, you are not alone. Rev Dr Tan Soo Inn, a panellist at the upcoming The Silent Pandemic: Loneliness in the Churches seminar, writes about the danger of loneliness found in today’s churches.
Rev Tan cites studies of urban church worshippers who found friendly believers in churches but not friends. This is coupled with the negative effect of loneliness being like that of obesity and smoking. Churches are gospel communities of those reconciled to God and to fellow man. How then do churches get their “relational act together” in addressing the issue of loneliness?
Chapels, Start.
We have started Chapel on campus this semester with everyone gathering as a community to pray, worship, be encouraged by testimonies and be built up by the sharing of the Word.
We were glad to have our Dean of Academics, Rev Liong Kwok Wai encourage everyone about being a light unto the world as the opening message at the first Chapel. We were also glad to participate in Communion together as community at the start of this semester.
There will be several more sessions of Chapel to come, and we pray that they will continue to be fruitful, refreshing and encouraging to the EAST community and beyond.
North Indian Student: Worchuirin Horam
Worchuirin Horam at EAST Mission Hub, July 2022
Introducing Worchirin Horam, a new student from North India, who is pursuing Master of Arts in Leadership. Her brother is an Alumnus Haimi Horam who graduated with a Master of Arts in Christian Ministry. We chatted with this petite lady with a big heart for God:
1. What were you doing before you came to EAST?
My last posting was a teacher at a mission school in North India before I came to EAST. I had worked as a missionary teacher for more than a decade in different schools. Besides that, I was a part-time women counsellor in a women hostel from 2018-2021. I taught Sunday school from 2017-2019. I also served as a outreach and evangelism leader, the discipleship task group leader from 2012-2015 in North India. I lived in an orphanage and spend a couple of years (2011-2013) sharing my life with those living there. I helped and counselled them, prayed with them during my stay there.
Prayer pointer 28 July 2022
Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?” – Galatians 3:3 -ESV
Having been born of the Spirit, are you walking in the Spirit? Or are you still pivoting on your own effort that is not born of the Spirit?
Praise God:
– That our new life in Christ begins and continues in the power of the Holy Spirit which our Lord freely bestows upon us.
Pray for:
– God to stir within us an insatiable hunger for Christ, an intense thirst to be continually filled with His Spirit.
– All at EAST to have a deep longing to be constantly harnessed, directed, and empowered by the Spirit as a way of life in the EAST community.
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EAST Community Gathers @ Aleph 2022
As we start a new academic year, EAST Aleph was held from July 1-15 for the cohort of new students. Aleph – the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet signifies a new start and more to come for our new students. This two-week immersion program aims to orientate the new students in several aspects – helping our international students to have a better understanding of cross-cultural living in Singapore, gain a better grasp of the various programs offered at EAST, and begin to experience and live out EAST values, etc.
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