Dr. Timothy Tow is the senior Pastor of Life Bible-­Presbyterian Church, Singapore, and Principal of the Far Eastern Bible College. Over the last 35 years Dr Tow has been greatly used of God in the planting of an entire constituency of thriving churches and mission stations in Singapore, Malaysia and elsewhere in the Far East. His own very large church holds services every week in the Mandarin, Tamil, Indonesian and Korean languages, besides the principal English services. Dr. Tow continues to engage in missionary itineraries through­out the Far East wherever evangelistic groups can be planted and supported.

Dr Tow came to the Lord in 1935 during an awakening which moved through South China and other Far Eastern lands principally through the extraordinary ministry of the Chinese preacher John Sung - born Sung Chu Un. (Wang Ming Dao, who preached John Sung's funeral sermon in 1944, described John Sung as the Lord's Jeremiah to Asia. It is thought that several hundred thousand lives may have been savingly blessed through his tireless travels, preparing a great Chinese "remnant" for the coming years of repression and darkness.)

As a teenager Dr. Tow sat under John Sung's preaching for months, and has written a biography of the evangelist. Few pastors in the West are able to draw on personal experience in describing true revival. Dr. Tow will show how lessons learned in the fires of revival have brought blessing and health to the churches called to proclaim the Gospel during a different "season" of grace. Dr. Tow's Subjects:

Four lectures covering the following themes: The Asian Awakening, its character and conversions. Lessons learned in revival which have secured the doctrinal purity and health of churches subsequently. The attitude and methods of John Sung contrasted with those of present-day evangelists. How

Liberalising and charismatic influences were rebuked.  Doctrinal development since the revival.  Adapting to a different “economy” of grace.  Maintaining standards of conduct, doctrine and effort in the churches.

                                      __  from Sword and Trowel,  1986,  No. 1.