Expat Income: Singapore tops global list. Survey of cities within 25 countries shows it has the largest ratio of high earners... 45% of expats are earning more than $2oo,000 a year. Elsewhere I read that Singapore has the fourth highest average per capita income in the world. How different from Birmingham's Companion Link with Malawi - one of the world's 20 poorest countries. I look forward to the challenges and oppotrun ities of developing further our links with Matlosane Diocese in South Africa.
The Singapore Grand Prix is taking place. This is the Church Poster in the Prsbyterian church just beside the YMCA where we were staying.
We are collected by Boon Ann who took us to Archbishop Chew's favourite restaurant with some of the Deans of the Missionary Deaneries..... before making our way to St Andrew's Diocesan Offices for further discussion.
Boon Ann very kindly drives us across Singapore (!) to see dock area where David was based back in 1965/66. We have the opportunity to meet Revd Timothy Keng-Hoi Chong, vicar of Yishun Christian Church who leads a church with multilingual services and diverse ministries. He is the Associate Dean of Indonesia where he supervises the Anglican churches and auxiliary services in Indonesia. He has a staff team of about a dozen working for him...... which does not seem to be that uncommon. He passes on an interesting book which he has written: 'Paul's Theology of Church Discipline in 1 Corinthians: A Holistic Model of Discipline for the Church in Singapore'.
We are held up in more Grand Prix traffic as we head for Discipleship Training sessions with George and Eunice Tay at St Andrew's City Church. They are using the Sa'rang Community Church material from Korea and kindly give us the work books and folders. Whilst I am completely convinced of the importance of Discipleship training I think the material would need quite a significant degree of rewriting in terms of educational methods before it could be used in our Lichfield context.
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