On 10th April 2018, TTC held a public lecture by Professor John M. G. Barclay. Professor Barclay is the Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Renowned for his work on the history of the early church, he spoke on the topic, “Early Christianity and the Survival of the Poor.”
We give praise and glory to God for making the Spiritual Retreat in March yet another occasion in which he met with the retreatants in deep and profound ways. This is the eighth spiritual retreat since the College began offering it in May 2016. Held on its campus and intentionally limited to twelve retreatants, the Spiritual Retreat made available the time and space for them to commune with the Lord.
On 21 March, Principal Dr Ngoei and three senior faculty members warmly welcomed a distinguished group of visitors from Shanghai. They were Imam Musa Jin (President of Shanghai Islamic Association), Professor Yan Kejia (Director of Institute of Religious Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, SASS), Dr Huang Haibo (Institute of Religious Studies) and Dr Hei Ying (Centre for the Study of Religion and Culture).
On Friday 2 February 2018, the Presbyterian English Chaplain, Rev Dr Edmund Fong, and the Presbyterian Chinese Chaplain, Rev Yap Seok Chin held a lunch fellowship for the Presbyterian students from the English and Chinese departments at the TTC Conference Room.
TTC’s annual open house was held on 24th Jan this year. Over 80 people from various churches came to catch a glimpse of what it is like to be a student at TTC. Each of the attendees got to see, hear and feel what going through a seminary is like.
