(at Toe and Mag's house)Toe and Mag Set were our main contacts in Singapore. Not pictured are their two children, Gus and Annie. They are on staff with Campus Crusade for Christ and are currently assigned to East Asia School of Theology, where Toe is teaching Hebrew and Old Testament and Mag, who among other things, tutors students with English deficiencies. The Sets drove us around to lots of places and helped to make most of our arrangements.
Payton took a real liking to uncle Toe, which came as a surprise to him since he said that kids normally don't like him.
This is the front of the house that we stayed in. This house belongs to a woman in Toe's church. She split the house in two and the other half is occupied by a couple (Patrick and Betty Flynn) also with CCC teaching at EAST. Land comes at a premium in Singapore so these houses are very expensive ($1-2 million). Most people live in high rises called HDB's (Singapore's housing and development board), which citizens and permanent residents can acquire with the help of significant government subsidies.
In a small garden (another luxury) of our rented house...
Payton playing with an umbrella (which he deformed) inside the house...
We also spent a significant amount of time with Florence Tan, who teaches and performs various administrative duties at Singapore Bible College, one of the largest seminaries in Singapore. Florence drove us around to various places and even cooked for us. Here we are at Ikea, in order to escape the heat and humidity and find an indoor place for Payton to play.
I also had the opportunity to teach several times at EAST. Pictured above is Lewis Winkler and his class. Lewis is also on staff with CCC and is just finishing up his PhD in Systematic Theology from Fuller Seminary. What excited me about the class was the diversity of the class and their anticipated place of ministry. Among other places, there were students from/going to Korea, Vietnam, China, Japan, and Africa. Singapore is truly a social and educational hub for neighboring Asian countries. That in addition to English being an official language makes it an appealing place to be.
I taught two session in the area of Eschatology (study of the culmination of God's redemptive plan for creation) and two in Toe class on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament (particularly Matthew's use of the OT in his prophetic formulas).
Other folks that are not pictured but were nonetheless very helpful to us were Kuen and Karen, our main contacts in Hong Kong, and Kok Hiang and Sharon in Singapore. We are also grateful for the many professors from various schools (they call them lecturers over there) who met with us.
Payton took a real liking to uncle Toe, which came as a surprise to him since he said that kids normally don't like him.
This is the front of the house that we stayed in. This house belongs to a woman in Toe's church. She split the house in two and the other half is occupied by a couple (Patrick and Betty Flynn) also with CCC teaching at EAST. Land comes at a premium in Singapore so these houses are very expensive ($1-2 million). Most people live in high rises called HDB's (Singapore's housing and development board), which citizens and permanent residents can acquire with the help of significant government subsidies.
In a small garden (another luxury) of our rented house...
Payton playing with an umbrella (which he deformed) inside the house...
We also spent a significant amount of time with Florence Tan, who teaches and performs various administrative duties at Singapore Bible College, one of the largest seminaries in Singapore. Florence drove us around to various places and even cooked for us. Here we are at Ikea, in order to escape the heat and humidity and find an indoor place for Payton to play.
I also had the opportunity to teach several times at EAST. Pictured above is Lewis Winkler and his class. Lewis is also on staff with CCC and is just finishing up his PhD in Systematic Theology from Fuller Seminary. What excited me about the class was the diversity of the class and their anticipated place of ministry. Among other places, there were students from/going to Korea, Vietnam, China, Japan, and Africa. Singapore is truly a social and educational hub for neighboring Asian countries. That in addition to English being an official language makes it an appealing place to be.
I taught two session in the area of Eschatology (study of the culmination of God's redemptive plan for creation) and two in Toe class on the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament (particularly Matthew's use of the OT in his prophetic formulas).
Other folks that are not pictured but were nonetheless very helpful to us were Kuen and Karen, our main contacts in Hong Kong, and Kok Hiang and Sharon in Singapore. We are also grateful for the many professors from various schools (they call them lecturers over there) who met with us.
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