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Since 1971, Trinity has also offered postgraduate theological education, helping regional seminaries to develop faculty and churches to train their emerging leaders. Trinity has a close working relationship with churches in Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. Faculty from Trinity travel throughout East and Southeast Asia conducting schools for pastors and other training and consultative programs.
Trinity’s Center for Postgraduate Studies, Mission Research, and Asian Church Leadership Development offers doctoral degrees to students from around the world and has made Trinity a center where global scholars come to research developments in Christianity in East and Southeast Asia. Trinity’s library has become a research hub for masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral fellows interested in the burgeoning church in Asia.
Tom and Judy feel well suited to their home in Asia, having taught for four years in China. Judy writes of learning from her experiences in China: "We do not ‘take’ God to other places. Wherever we go, God has been there before us, preparing the way and revealing himself. He brings us to where he is already working. Although I wanted to see results, one of the lasting lessons that the Lord taught me through our time in China was that wherever it is that I am serving him, my calling is not to results, but to faithfulness: faithfulness to him and faithfulness to the relationships he has brought into my life; to give these relationships the time and patience they require; to pray and to leave the results to the Lord."
Tom has a B.A. in Christian education
and philosophy from Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, and an
M.Div. from Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He also holds an M.A. in theology from Notre Dame University in South Bend, Indiana,
and a Ph.D. in theology and ethics at Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina.
Judy
has a B.A. in psychology from the University of Kentucky,
Lexington, Kentucky.
Tom is a clergy member of New Hope Presbytery.
Tom and Judy have three children, Joseph (at Davidson College), Paul (at Wheaton College), and Emma, who attends school in Singapore.
Birthdays:
Tom - June 2
Judy - October 20
Joseph - November 3, 1986
Paul - August 13, 1988
Emma - February 1, 1993 |