Dear Fellow Alumni,
The recent Alumni Retreat was a historic moment where over 250 alumni from 21 countries met at the YMCA and the YWCA for 3 days and 2 nights. This was possible because of a generous SBC Board Director whose desire was to bless alumni to come together for a time of physical refreshment and spiritual renewal.
It was a blessed time! The word that kept ringing in my mind and heart was GRATITUDE! I am truly grateful to God for this event and the reunion of alumni with their alma mater!
Graduates from decades past, from SOTC, SOTE, SCM & SOC, gathered together and declared with one voice, the goodness of the Lord in making this event possible. The faculty in charge, Dr Grace Tan, alumnus from SOTC, together with the staff, worked tirelessly for many months, to put together a wonderful programme to interface it with the 70th anniversary of SBC!
The dinner on the first night, with alumni, the current and retired faculty of SBC, 2 former principals with the current principal and administration, was a wonderful sight to behold as the hundreds mingled, took photographs, sang, laughed, ate together, almost like the good old days of yore! What a magnificent and glorious homecoming this was! For those of you who missed out, you will have to wait another 6 years for the next one!
Even if you did not manage to attend the retreat this time, all of us, by the very fact that we are graduates of SBC, and automatically alumni, are truly blessed because it was in SBC that we first received our biblical and theological foundation, and it was here that we were equipped for pastoral & marketplace ministries.
As alumni who have been blessed by SBC our alma mater, how can we in turn bless SBC? Let me suggest a couple of ways:
- Pray for the ongoing work of SBC “to train faithful servants of Jesus Christ for the edification of the church and the urgent evangelization of the unreached.”
- Volunteer your services to pray, encourage and perhaps even mentor younger alumni and the current students.
- Support the college financially as it takes hundreds of thousands of dollars each month to support the work of the college. You are the best testimony to the churches as you serve faithfully and impact lives in the communities, so may your leaders, with your encouragement, support the ongoing ministry of SBC.
- Campaign for enrollment of prospective students to SBC so that many more can be trained to serve the Lord in the Church and marketplace.
- Register for enrichment classes and on-going education to further equip yourselves both as audit students and even in the Advanced Studies Programmes!
We are blessed to be a blessing! Let us intentionally think of how we as alumni of SBC can impact the college and through the college impact the wider communities for Christ and His kingdom!
