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change in the air in class reunion

May 28th, 2008

We are probably the only alumni class from Trinity Theological College that still meets regularly, even if annually, twenty years after we graduated. What keeps us together? This is a real rojak class. In terms of race, nationality and denominations. Now there is only Presbyterian, Pentecostal, Anglican though on graduation we had MarThoma, Lutheran, Catholic, Methodist, and Baptist included. What glues us together when other classes hardly meet to fellowship?

Bolivian Beat, the archdeacon Raphael Samuel has returned to Singapore as Vicar of Christchurch, and his wife Michelle(far right) is actively involved in dance and arts ministry in COOS. However Dr Yak Hwee (second from right) is leaving for Taipei, Taiwan, in late August, to teach in one of the main seminaries there. I guess she is the New Testament lecturer that Dr Tony Siew, of Revelation is Real, is replacing. Rev. Benedict Muthusamy will finish his MTh next year, and it seemed like last month when he first begun.

We are all in our fifties, that stage of life when we are surprisingly game for all kinds of changes and new challenges. The fifties seems to be a season when our experience and propulsion towards convergence combines with family circumstances to give us a high degree of confidence, mobility and intolerance of aggravation. It is a journey of self-actualization and therefore change. We see it in others around us too: some divorce and change spouses. Some change jobs or line of work. Some change churches after being members for decades. Some change leisure pursuits. Some become health evangelists.

So here we were at IMM talking about changes, and of course the nostalgic good ole days!

And I heard Peter Tan of K.L.’s now defunct Tabernacle of Glory, will be moving from Canberra and pastoring in Singapore. Hmmm….

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