Event Type Missions Breakfast Fellowship
april
06apr9:00 am10:30 amWHEN TRUTH WITHOUT LOVE BACKFIRESMissions Conversations 2024
Event Details
Our (Chinese) relatives and neighbours will be commemorating Qing Ming on the 4th of April and our Malay friends will be celebrating Eid al-Fitr on the 10th of April. How might Christians better appreciate these time-honoured traditions and engage with our family members and friends more meaningfully? What lessons can we learn from Jesus as He engaged with the traditional practices in His days?
Come and be part of the missions conversation in April as we learn to practise Truth with love and grace. Join us also for breakfast and fellowship at 8:30am before diving into the conversation with Bro W and Ps Keith!
SPEAKERS
Brother W has been serving Jesus full-time since 2018, since he was 25 years old. He leads a prayer group to pray for an unreached people group in this region and journeys with persecuted believers. He is also involved in mobilising and encouraging churches to engage the unreached people group.
Rev Dr Keith Lai is Senior Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church and has been with his church since his conversion in 1974. He served as a missionary with Operation Mobilisation onboard the LOGOS for 4 years. Later he returned to serve as Youth Pastor, before becoming the Senior Pastor in 1992. He has served as the Synod Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Singapore (2019-2021) and the President of the National Council of Churches of Singapore (2020-2021). Rev Lai is a graduate of Singapore Bible College and Regent College in Vancouver, and is a candidate for a Doctorate in Ministry with TELEO University. He is married to Mui Fong who serves alongside him as the Pastor of Family Life Ministries in Covenant Presbyterian Church, and together they have 2 young adult sons.
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Singapore Centre for Global Missions+65 87980235 485 Bedok South Ave 2, Singapore 469315
may
11may9:00 am12:30 pmWHEN JOHN 3:16 DOES NOT MAKE SENSEMissions Forum 2024
Event Details
How do we share the Gospel? Do we just ‘download’ a formulaic message? Have we ever thought how our listeners are hearing and understanding what we say? And that many things might actually not be comprehensible and meaningful? At this SCGM Missions Forum, we will learn how to converse with others in terms and through ideas that they can better relate with.
We will also consider other more contextualised missions approaches, including worshipping through culturally-meaningful ways, befriending others through their love languages, discipling oral learners through embodied approaches, and what all these mean for the way we do short-term mission trips.
Come, listen, learn and interact with others who are all exploring new ways to re-gear ourselves for missions in the decade ahead.
SPEAKERS
Mary spent 17 years in church ministry in the areas of missions training, discipleship and outreach mobilisation. Personally, she has been serving the Bangladeshi migrant community in Singapore for the past nine years.
She is currently the coordinator of Al Massira in SE Asia and Bangladesh, traveling and sharing with churches and field workers training programs that equip believers to dialogue and journey well with friends who want know how the Old Testament prophets related with God, and understand the signs pointing to the Messiah.
Mary enjoys community building in cross-cultural friendships, board games, music and swimming.
Seng Chuan was a pastor for some 15 years (1977-1993), before returning to secular work as a speech teacher (1997-2013). In 2006, he embarked on a program of academic study in Buddhism that led to an MA in Buddhist studies. In addition, he also attended the Buddhist Sunday School at the Mangala Vihara (Temple), did Pali language studies at the Ruwan Buddhist Society, and a post-graduate diploma at The Buddhist Library. Seng Chuan has also been an adjunct lecturer at the BGST (1995-2021), having taught classes in pastoral ministry, speech education, and Asian religions. In his retirement years, his time is mostly spent between playing table tennis, and doing some voluntary work with EOL (end of life) patients.
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Singapore Centre for Global Missions+65 87980235 485 Bedok South Ave 2, Singapore 469315
