Pastor Mark Chan, a Malaysian Chinese pastor serving across Southeast Asia shares his journey from inherited faith to a personal calling. Speaking about the spiritual challenges faced by believers in Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Indonesia, he emphasizes the urgent need to teach the full message of salvation and to call Christians into a life of true discipleship.

Prof. Sonia Wong explores how biblical trauma narratives might serve as pastoral resources for Asian contexts while emphasizing the need for critical evaluation.

Dr. O'Donnell challenges conventional Christian trauma recovery language, proposing "post-traumatic remaking" through radical spiritual practices that honor survivors' embodied experiences.

Mr. Yohanes Krismantyo Susanta presents a feminist and trauma hermeneutic reading of John 19:16-27, arguing that the stripping and humiliation of Jesus's body represent a form of sexual violence that creates solidarity with contemporary victims of trauma.

Dr. Xi Li presents a reading of Psalm 119 that interprets its co-existing lament and wisdom elements as negative and positive post-traumatic reactions to trauma experienced by the psalm's speaker.

War trauma shaped contrasting theological responses in Japan, with Kitamori developing divine suffering theology rooted in Bushido aesthetics, while Noro defended divine impassibility through relational engagement, revealing practical theology's tension between cultural contextualization and doctrinal integrity when addressing collective trauma.

Using Salim's hermeneutics and collective trauma theory, the study reinterprets biblical metaphors of "pillars," "open doors," and "trials" through the lens of Southeast Asian volcanic disasters, proposing that trauma-informed ministry must embody presence within suffering rather than escape from it.

With a clear and urgent call to renew commitment to discipleship amid a rapidly changing global landscape, the Asia Evangelical Leadership Forum (AELF) officially opened Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea.

The 2025 Singapore–Malaysia Chinese Pastors and Leaders Summit, organized by the World Chinese Christianity Alliance (WCA), a movement under the World Evangelical Alliance, and co-organized by the Singapore Chinese Christianity Alliance and the Malaysia Chinese Christianity Alliance, was held successfully from May 12–14, 2025, in Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Rev. Dr. Caleb Soo Lee Chong, associate minister of Singapore Life Church, recently delivered a seminar on breakthroughs in family relationships, drawing aspirations from the Puritan concept of the family as "little church."