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CERC welcomes Jia Ying into the Basic Ministry Trainee Programme

CERC welcomes our new Basic Ministry Trainee (BMT), Soo Jia Ying from our F4 Tertiary Growth Group.

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Posted on 8 Nov 2018

CMA – Going all out to test myself

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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Posted on 28 Oct 2018

The How, the Why

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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Posted on 10 Oct 2018

Celebrating 10 years with the 10th CMA apprentice

In the span of 10 years, CERC is blessed to have had 10 individuals join the Church Ministers’ Apprenticeship (CMA) programme. For a church that was founded in 2008 with a gathering of just 25 people during the first few months, we recognise that God has powerfully worked in CERC to raise up many passionate Christians who are willing to take up the challenge of testing out full-time paid ministry in service to Christ.

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Posted on 28 Sep 2018

A Week Off in Sydney (With Van!)

It’s my sem break now and I thought it would be a good chance to visit my fellow CMA-er (Church Ministers’ Apprenticeship) who’s now studying in Moore Theological College. It’s been a long-time desire of mine to visit Moore College, to actually see for myself the wealth of resources they

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Posted on 2 Aug 2018

Van in Sydney (with Dan!)

I’ve been told I’ve underperformed in being a proper tourist in the five months I’ve been here. (But I can only handle one kind of exploring at a time. I’ve been a ‘tourist’ in the ancient languages – SO MANY new sights and sounds with Greek and Hebrew!) But now,

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Posted on 2 Aug 2018

Beyond “Baby Steps”

“But I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Acts 20:24   Dear friends, This post is

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Posted on 23 Jun 2018

Visiting Vanessa at Moore Theological College

On a drizzly late afternoon in Sydney, Vanessa Ong, our seminarian at Moore Theological College greeted me at the college entrance. She was beaming from ear to ear, happy to meet a fellow member from her church family after being away overseas for some time.

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Posted on 6 Jun 2018

Time in seminary — Not what I expected!

Before I arrived in seminary, I imagined college would be: Learning Greek and Hebrew. Learning lots of content from lectures (e.g. New Testament, BT). Doing assignments to sharpen theology. Asking tough content questions. However, after looking back at my previous blog post, I realized how I imagined life in seminary

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Posted on 31 Mar 2018