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New beginnings

Hi guys! I’m David, the 11th and latest apprentice of CERC’s Church Ministers’ Apprenticeship (CMA) programme. I just joined the CMA programme in December 2018 and a lot has already happened in my life in the past months: I left my job as a pharmacist in a private hospital after

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Posted on 29 Mar 2019

Crazy little thing called love

I grew up as your typical girl next door whose idea of love was very much centered around romance, passion and ‘happily ever after’s. I hate to admit it, but yes, I was (and probably still am) one of those hopeless romantics who loved love. Or the idea of love.

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Posted on 14 Feb 2019

Goodbye Again (I’m jealous)

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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Posted on 9 Feb 2019

Home Sweet Home but Bye Bye Van

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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Posted on 9 Feb 2019

A Year in Review (2018)

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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Posted on 1 Jan 2019

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