WORKSHOP 1: SETTING THE CAPTIVES FREE

How the Church can get involved in Prison Ministries in Singapore and Overseas.

JONATHAN CORTES serves as Asia Envoy for Prison Fellowship International. He also serves as the International Coordinator for Reaching the Remaining Unreached for Advancing Native Missions.

WORKSHOP 2: HOLE IN THE GOSPEL

This workshop will look at the why’s and how’s of helping the poor and why helping the poor is not an option for the Christian.

YONG TECK MENG is the founding chairman, and is now the National Director of Habitat for Humanity Singapore, an international Christian charity fighting poverty around the world by building affordable houses. Elder Yong also pastors the English service of the Reformed Evangelical Church (Singapore).

WORKSHOP 3: EMOTIONAL RECOVERY & SURVIVAL

In a disaster, children see things, experience things, and hear of things that children should never have to endure and bear the scars of in their tender hearts and minds. OperationSAFE teaches children five important principles to emotional recovery and survival. Learn how stories, crafts, songs, and games can help children learn, make friends, share their traumatic experiences of a disaster, and regain hope.

RIE WILSON heads the ministry of OperationSAFE, a child trauma care program which started immediately after the Japan Tsunami of 11^th March 2011. Born and raised in Japan by parents who believe in Shintoism, Rie was found by the Lord Jesus when she went to college in the U.S.A. She is married to Jonathan Wilson, and they have two beautiful children. Rie is currently taking classes at a Japanese university to be a child psychologist.

WORKSHOP 4: ALIENS IN OUR MIDST

This workshop hopes to raise our awareness of migrant workers’ issues in Singapore such as trafficking, housing, work injuries, contracts, and health issues. At the heart of the migrant ministry, we learn to see each other in the image of God and to share a common humanity. The realities on the ground should continue to keep Christians on our toes and never to be complacent where God has called us to work amongst the aliens in our midst (Lev 24:22).

TANG SHIN YONG was formerly involved with a British charity between 2003 to 2007 and is now the Executive Director of HealthServe, a home-grown charity working amongst migrant workers.