A WORD FROM THE PRINCIPAL
 To
my students,
We warmly welcome you to FEBC. God has provided us a
campus that is second to none in this metropolis, with Beulah House our
God-given heritage across the street. God has brought us together from
many countries, so that we might learn from one another towards a wider
missionary vision.
From whatever ethnic background or station of life, do
you realise the high privilege you have as a student of this College? Do
you know that in studying God’s Word, you are entering into the realms of
the highest learning—the study of God and man? Calvin says, “To know God
and to know yourself is the true knowledge.”
Whereas Confucius says it is a pleasure to study with a
constant application, St Paul speaks more emphatically, “Study to shew
thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed,
rightly dividing the word of truth” (2 Tim 2:15). FEBC is not merely an
Eastern Academy, but a spiritual SAFTI (Singapore Armed Forces Training
Institute) for the nurture of the whole man. Head knowledge that puffs up
without heart knowledge is a great danger.
Your training in FEBC that will last three or four
years will be over in the twinkling of an eye. As we live in these
momentous hours of the last days, let us pursue our chartered course with
all diligence and application. “Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good
soldier of Jesus Christ . . . If a man therefore purge himself from these
(youthful lusts), he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet
for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work” (2 Tim 2:3, 21).
The Lord’s coming draws nigh. All the more must we
strive to accomplish all that is assigned for us to do. If we do well in
our training at FEBC there will be a place found for us in the Lord’s
Vineyard. If we do not do well here and now, how shall He send us to a
greater work hence and beyond?
“And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in
all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come”
(Matt 24:14). Onward, every FEBCian!
Your Principal,
Rev Dr Timothy Tow
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