I had the privilege of sitting through a book talk at our TEDS library given by Dr Craig Ott, our PhD ICS director and program advisor. He was speaking on a newly written/launched book “The Church on Mission,” based on part of the EFCA’s mission statement – “To glorify God by multiplying transformational churches among all people.”
A big part of my enrolling and coming to TEDS and the PhD ICS program here is because of scholars like himself, who has spent time as a missionary, church-planter and seminary professor both in the States and Germany. He had also preached and consulted with Covenant EFC in Singapore, and advised and taught previous Singaporeans or related others like How Chuang and Clive Chin, who have also had a deep influence on my decision towards TEDS.
Of course, you have the big faculty names like D.A. Carson, the Feinberg brothers, Wayne Grudem, Norman Geisler, Grant Osborne, even John Stott taught preaching courses here in 1972. But it’s truly a blend of all these different persons and factors that have contributed to the success, growth and vision of TEDS, which I was and continue to be drawn to.
