Long before her last class this May, Bay Wa Jee (second from right)already knows she will miss EAST.Top on her “miss” list is “the nurturing community of faculty and fellow class-mates”. “I enjoy their encouragement as well as courageous rebukes,” she says.
Before she came to EAST, Wan Jee attended a workshop by “Ministry Matters” on “Choosing A Bible College”. She discovered that, for her, a key criterion is an environment that would nurture her passion for the mission field. For the former stinter with Overseas Missionary Fellowship in Tokyo, that field is Japan.
“My Japanese classmates, namely Taka, Eri and Shinji, and former missionary to Japan, Casey Lok, helped to keep my vision—and Japanese language—alive,” says Wan Jee.
“And the diversity of culture—we often have six or seven nationalities in any one class—has given me the cross-cultural training I need when I serve in Japan [with OMF] later this year.” (In the above picture, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Myanmar, Taiwan ROC, and Japan are represented.)
Aside from the cross-cultural community, Wan Jee knows she will also miss the soaking into God’s Word, and mental and spiritual sparring with her classmates every day.
“Here we all know one another by name,” she says.
“We share the same love for the Lord and the harvest field.
“It’s a great environment for learning.”
“My Japanese classmates, namely Taka, Eri and Shinji, and former missionary to Japan, Casey Lok, helped to keep my vision—and Japanese language—alive,” says Wan Jee.
“And the diversity of culture—we often have six or seven nationalities in any one class—has given me the cross-cultural training I need when I serve in Japan [with OMF] later this year.” (In the above picture, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Myanmar, Taiwan ROC, and Japan are represented.)
Aside from the cross-cultural community, Wan Jee knows she will also miss the soaking into God’s Word, and mental and spiritual sparring with her classmates every day.
“Here we all know one another by name,” she says.
“We share the same love for the Lord and the harvest field.
“It’s a great environment for learning.”
