Among the latest batch of graduates from Trinity’s Ministry Internship programme, there were not one but two IT engineers! It was an unforgettable experience for both of them, but in different ways.
Trinitarian: What prompted you to join Trinity’s Ministry Internship (MI) programme? Were there obstacles and challenges you had to overcome? Tat Liong: This has been something that was on my heart even before I graduated from university in 2003. Although I felt a calling of God to the marketplace, God’s prompting was that this would be His preparation for where He would lead me in future. So after working for 3 years in a sales job at an IT engineering firm, I left in 2007 to join Trinity as a full-time Ministry Intern. The challenge was facing up to what my relatives and friends would think about what would seem
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like a foolish decision to them. Only a few people knew that God had been preparing me for this move for years. The prospect of the huge drop in finances, having to depend on my savings as well as my wife’s salary during that one year, was daunting. Now, having gone through it, I look back in wonder at how God provided and brought us through it all! Trinitarian: How would you describe your year in the MI programme? What were the life lessons you learnt? Tat Liong: My learning stint can be summed up by three words and two reminders from God. The 3 words are faith, communicate and lead. The
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