Pastoral Leadership (Online) – Evening Course
Pastoral Leadership (Online)
LD522, 3 Credits
9 January – 8 May 2026, Thursdays, 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Examines the calling, roles, and function of a disciple-making church leader. The shepherding roles of leading, care, and feeding the congregation are explored. Church ministries and common issues are examined. Students develop the foundations for an integrated philosophy of church ministry.
Bobby Lee Oon Chai, DMin, held many leadership positions. He was a pastor for 11 years, a Pastor Advisor for 2 churches, Executive Director for Singapore Baptist Convention for 8 years and was a Board Member of Singapore Baptist Convention and is a Board Member of Bible Society Singapore, Hope Initiative Alliance and Evangelical Alliance Singapore. Bobby is an adjunct lecturer at BTS (Baptist Theological Seminary) and he authored a few books and essays. His research and teaching interests are leadership, preaching, missions, business as missions. His interests are music, environmental conservation, arts, hiking, cycling, and travel.
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Culture and Transformation (Online) – Evening Course
Culture and Transformation (Online)
IS530, 3 Credits
9 January – 8 May 2026, Wednesdays, 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
This course examines how cultures change, the dynamics and processes of change, the place of change agents, and the speed and intensity of change. The implications of such processes are examined in the social, political, economic and religious aspects of society. This aims for students to examine how their own cultures, societies and communities may be effectively transformed for God’s Kingdom purposes.
Alvin Tey, PhD, serves as Resident Faculty (Intercultural Studies) in EAST. He concurrently serves with Operation Mobilisation (OM), where he is currently involved in the training, equipping and care of missionaries sent to serve across East Asia. He previously served in OM’s transformational development ministries among poor and marginalized least-reached peoples and communities in Southeast Asia. Alvin is married to Kalene and they have three children, Natalie, Charlotte and Josiah. In his free time, Alvin enjoys history and sports.
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Transforming Leadership (Online) – Evening Course
Transforming Leadership (Online)
LF511, 3 Credits
9 January – 8 May 2026, Tuesdays, 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
Seeks to equip leaders to commit to authentic personal transformation and the passion to serve the world around them for Jesus’ sake. This course examines the underlying theology, leadership theory, and skill set of a transforming leader in today’s world. Leadership is not a job nor a position. It is a passion and a calling. A transformational servant-leader seeks to bring about change in organisations and individuals.
Jonathan Yao, EdD Candidate, has been on staff with Cru Singapore for 37 years. He has served with high school, university, evangelism and mission mobilisation, church-planting, theological and leadership development ministries in Singapore and East Asia. He is married to Eng Meng, and they have three young adult children.
Chan Chong Hiok, DD, has been a Cru Singapore staff since 1975 and has served in the Philippines and more than ten years as Country Director of Cru Singapore. For eighteen years, he served in East Asia as the National Campus Director and then as the Area Team Leader. He served as President of EAST since 2011. He has an MDiv and DD (Transformational Leadership) from the International Graduate School of Leadership (Philippines).
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 31 December 2025
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Enjoy the promotional rate of $80 for each EAST course taken for audit held during January – May 2026. Usually up to $285 school fees for an audit course. Join a course or two to be equipped and transformed in your life and ministry.
Registration deadline: Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Contextualisation & Worldview (Onsite) – Day Course
Contextualisation & Worldview (Onsite)
IS520, 3 Credits
Fridays, 9.00 am – 12.00 pm
This course introduces what is worldview, its relation to culture, and what it means to contextualise the Christian gospel and theology. Students will learn about different forms of worldviews and cultures, and biblical principles of contextualising Christian theology and the gospel. This course will also identify themes, issues and methods of contextualisation, especially for the Asian context. This aims to help students develop strategies to contextualise the Christian gospel and theology meaningfully in their own church and ministry contexts. Prerequisite: AD500 Orientation to Theological Studies.
Alvin Tey, PhD, serves as Resident Faculty (Intercultural Studies) in EAST. He concurrently serves with Operation Mobilisation (OM), where he is currently involved in the training, equipping and care of missionaries sent to serve across East Asia. He previously served in OM’s transformational development ministries among poor and marginalized least-reached peoples and communities in Southeast Asia. Alvin is married to Kalene and they have three children, Natalie, Charlotte and Josiah. In his free time, Alvin enjoys history and sports.
Jarred Jung, PhD, joined Cru in 2006 and ministers in Asian contexts. He has worked in campus ministry and most recently has lectured in developing seminaries. His passion is for teaching students how to apply theology to every square inch of their life through the lens of the Bible. He enjoys talking with students about theology, hosting people for dinners, and most of all living life with his wife Shelley and his three children.
Registration deadline: Monday, 7 July 2025
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