Meet Soo Jia Ying and Choong Mun Vee. Jia Ying and Mun Vee lodge under the same roof, sometimes wear matching outfits to church, and most importantly, share the same ardour for God! In line with that spirit, the two young women have resolved to live under the Lordship of Christ, no matter what paths their lives may lead them down. In order to equip themselves for the arduous path to the outside (Heb 13:10-14), they became the two most recent trainees of our Basic Ministry Training programme (BMT), a full-time programme designed for Christians to experience serving the church as part of the staff for a period of up to one year. We recently spoke with the two of them about their experiences under BMT thus far.
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12 Feb 2019
1. Dan and Van are back! I feel sooooo far away from Australia. Even Newtown (The place I live in Sydney) sounds like…a familiar yet new[?] town… Basically, so much has happened since I got back, I have almost forgotten I am a full-time student in the middle of my
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9 Feb 2019
1. Thank you Australia It’s been a good 2 years spent in Perth and I can’t thank God enough for the friends I’ve made there and the growth I’ve had from the sharing of our lives together over there. Here’s what I’ve enjoyed about Perth: Learning how different Australian
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9 Feb 2019
CERC Camp in 2018 took the church with its family and friends east to Cherating, Pahang. The 4-day-3-night camp saw a record number of campers totalling some 400 people. In many ways, it was a special time this year in Cherating as CERC celebrated the 10th anniversary of its founding on August 31st, 2018. We were blessed to have Reverend Phillip Jensen as our guest speaker for this year’s camp topic on Relationships.
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2 Feb 2019
Dear ministry partners, I hope 2018 has been a fruitful year for you! It was the most challenging year for us in the US as we worked together to juggle school, work, ministry, and parenting. Through it all, however, we’ve tasted the goodness of our Lord as He sustained us by
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1 Jan 2019
At CERC we’re engaged in God’s great mission to gather a people for Himself through Christ (Matthew 28:18-20).
In this article, you will find individuals from our congregation that by God’s grace received the gospel through the preaching of His Word, and who are now living for this same mission as Christians serving Him. We hope you’d be encouraged by their stories!
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4 Dec 2018
CERC welcomes our new Basic Ministry Trainee (BMT), Soo Jia Ying from our F4 Tertiary Growth Group.
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8 Nov 2018
Dear all, It’s been a year and 4 months since I started in the Church Ministry Apprenticeship (CMA) programme in July 2017. This blog post has been a long time coming, but God’s harvest and work has been plenty, keeping me busy. CMA is like a bullet train that once
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28 Oct 2018
It’s been just over 7 months now in CMA, the Church Ministers’ Apprenticeship programme in CERC, and I have learnt so much during this time, more than I am able to articulate on this blog – but I will try. I often get asked these two questions below and I
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10 Oct 2018
