The Burning Bush - Far Eastern Bible College

The Burning Bush 16/2 (July 2010)
My Spiritual Father
Archippus Yang
Just last night (19 April 2009), I took a detour to park the car at
Beulah Land overlooking Life Bible-Presbyterian Church. A flood of
memories came over me as I recalled the moments and experiences of my
life growing up in this church under Pastor Tow for nine years. Fiona and
I were baptised and married by him on 18 October 1981 and 30 June
1984 respectively. It was a joyous moment for me to be baptised that year
because I was unsuccessful the previous year when I withdrew at the last
minute. He must have been glad for me as he understood my struggles
between obeying my parents and the Lord.
He is my spiritual father; “ ” he would affectionately call me
whenever he saw me at FEBC. I thank God that he had received me into
his care. I remember the two sermons I preached during my studies at the
Bible college, one of them was on Philippians 1:12-26 and the other 3
John 1. Strangely, today’s Our Daily Bread highlighted this passage that I
had preached at FEBC’s homiletics class when Rev Tow was my
Principal. The Lord somehow caused me to remember all those years.
Last night’s trip to Life Church together with Fiona and Natalia and this
morning’s message spoke to me. It is like when Jesus looked into the eyes
of Peter. Peter knew. The Holy Spirit speaks. Rev Tow, may you remain
always “the beloved” Gaius whom John loved “in truth”. Thank you for
your love for me.
A Rich Heritage
Dohar Santoso Siregar
My wife, my children and I will miss Rev Timothy Tow. Now he has
found rest with the Lord. I am personally indebted to him, for through
him my father Rev Wesley Siregar and my mother came to be assured of
their salvation. He has brought revival to the Siregar family in Medan. I
am thankful to the Lord because my sons Febian and Jeremy, both of
them, learnt theology under Rev Timothy Tow at the Far Eastern Bible
College (FEBC).
We feel sad over the homegoing of Rev Timothy Tow, the father of
the Bible-Presbyterian Church Movement in the Far East, the founder of
FEBC and Life Bible-Presbyterian Church, and in his late evening years
he founded True Life Bible-Presbyterian Church.
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