SAYONARA

Yesterday Taka and Eri, and their two-year-old, Komoki, came to say good bye.
"The past three years had been wonderful for us," says Taka.
He is headed for Tokyo to join the HR department of Japan Campus Crusade.
Among the many blessing the couple received in Singapore - "good friends at the local church we attended", "professors who taught us", "building convictions from God's Word" - is of course their made-in-Singapore son.
"We told Komoki many times we're leaving," says Eri. "And today he said goodbye to his friends at the nursery."
"But we're not sure if he understands."

By now, most of the foreign students have gone home.
Some, like Steve Cole, wrote to say they are still readjusting to life back home.
Others like Sharon Hwang are raising support before getting into full ministry gear.
Check out their latest happenings in the blogs below and pray for them.

Sayonara.

more requests for Myanmar

Here's a new update from the Sets:

"We thank God for answering our prayers in opening doors.

"Our relief team is now faced with many requests from various contacts to come to their villages. It’s going to be difficult to have to turn down some of them as they have limited supplies and manpower. . . .

"Besides supplying basic needs such as rice, beans and salt, we are hoping to supply the villagers with two-man boats and fishing nets for them to start catching crabs (crab season now). In the days to come, we also hope to help build some of the houses as well. Most villages in that area have been destroyed, and some have been totally wiped-out.

"Please also remember to pray for another team of eleven Burmese going in this Monday 23rd June. They are from the Myanmar Judson Baptist Church in Singapore. They too are hoping to get their medicines in with them."

UPDATES FROM MYANMAR

TOE SET (EAST faculty) and his wife Mag returned to Myanmar for more relief ministry.

Here's some news from their latest email:

"After praying and fasting, our team members decided to reach out to villages further in another region that have not yet received much help.

"These are villages that can only be reached by boat. The plan was to leave this week, bringing in medical and food supplies sufficient to reach several villages in the area.

"In preparation for this, we flew out four of our team members to Singapore to bring back medical supplies to Yangon. We arranged for them to leave in pairs on two separate days, carrying a total of 400 kg of medicines.

"Thank you for praying!
After two days of running around town from one government department to another our team finally got the approval for the release of ALL our medicines. Please continue to pray for future relief efforts. . . . "

Toe & Mag

I WILL BLESS YOUR GOING OUT AND COMING IN

RIGHT after our commencement ceremony, various ones left immediately for ministry overseas.
Tunji (Nigeria) and Siew Kim (Singapore) went to Cambodia to serve with a church.
Barnabas Jung (Korea) and his family joined a church-planting ministry in Mongolia.
Also in Mongolia was Ying Kheng (Singapore) to conduct communications and team building workshops for Mongolia Campus Crusade workers.
Anita (Singapore) led a team to the Philippines to reach out to a poverty stricken community.
Toe Set (Myanmar) returned home to help with relief ministry.
Siew Hong (Singapore) also went on relief mission, with a team to China.
This is really what EAST is about, isn't it?
All those studies, class work, exams are meant to build up to this:
giving our students values, convictions and practical skills that will be of use to God's work on earth.
Equipping people to better reach and touch people.
Developing Christlike leaders for the Great Commission.