Full-time Faculty

John D Ting

BA, Dip Ed, M Ed (Sydney)
Dip Th, BD (London)
Th L (Australian College of Theology)
M Theol (South East Asian Graduate School of Theology)

After a period of high school teaching in Sydney, John went in 1968 as a first batch student to DTC where he met and married his classmate Frances from Hong Kong.  After further studies John returned in 1973 with his family to join the DTC faculty. He taught at DTC until 1991 serving the last five years as Assistant Dean. In this period, John and Frances visited and ministered in many of the countries of South and South East Asia from where DTC students have come and returned.

For thirty years John was also heavily involved in the drug and prison ministry in Singapore. From 1992-2000 John served in Sydney in his home church as the co-senior minister before returning to DTC as Dean.  John and Frances have three grown up children.

Eileen Poh

LLB (Singapore)
Dip Th (DTC, Singapore)
M Div (TTC, Singapore)
Ph D (University of London)

Eileen practised law for several years before doing her theological studies at Discipleship Training Centre (DTC). After DTC, she went on to do her M Div at Trinity Theological College (Singapore).

In 1991, Eileen joined the staff at DTC for 15 months after which she went to the UK for doctoral studies. She completed her Ph D in biblical studies in 1998 and is very glad to return to teach at DTC.

Eileen is married to Philip Satterthwaite, who is the Old Testament & Hebrew lecturer at Biblical Graduate School of Theology.

Jeanette Hui

BA (Hons) (U. Malaya)        DipTh, BD (London)                MA (Wheaton)                            D Min (Fuller).

After graduating with first class honours in history from the University of Malaya Dr Hui came to DTC in l968 as a first-batch student. She has had extensive experience in student work, church ministry and theological teaching in Malaysia and Singapore. Her D. Min dissertation was in the area of spirituality.

Alvin Tan

BPE (Canada)                             Dip Th (DTC, Singapore)             MA in Intercultural Studies (Fuller Theological Seminary)

After graduation Alvin planned programmes for YMCA for several years. In 1991, together with his wife, Daisy, they went to DTC for theological studies to prepare for a cross-cultural ministry. They served in Cambodia with OMF from 1995, reaching out to university students, assisted in church planting and Alvin taught at Phnom Penh Bible School. In 2006, they returned to help their children reintegrate back to Singapore schools and to teach at DTC.  Alvin also serves as Mission Pastor of Bartley Christian Church.  Alvin & Daisy have three children.

Visiting Faculty

Warren R Beattie

BSc, BD (Edinburgh)
PG Dip Lib (N London Poly)
MSc Non-Western Christianity (Edinburgh)
Ph D (Edinburgh)

Following his first degree, Warren spent two years with Operation Mobilization doing Christian work in the French-speaking part of Belgium. Eight years later, following ordination and pastoral work in the Church of Scotland, he and his wife Stroma jointed OMF International.

Since 1991 they have served in Asia. Initially they wre in South Korea from 1991-1997 where they were involved in missionary training and mobilization, leadership training and teaching at a Christian university.  Warren also did a four-uear spell as minister of an international congregation in Pusan South Korea.

From 1998 onwards, they have been in Singapore.  Warren has been a residential Faculty member of DTC teaching Missions and Biblical Studies and is now Adjunct Faculty. He was appointed as the Director for Mission Research with OMF in July 2007. Stroma is a medical doctor who is currently the International Medical Adviser for OMF.

Warren has a PhD from the University of Edinburgh relating to Missiology in Asia and has been a contributor to One world or many, the impact of globalisation on mission Pasadena, William Carey Library (2003), The challenge and impact of globalisation towards a biblical response Singapore, GCF (2002), and the IVP Dictionary of Mission Theology Leicester, IVP (2007).  He is the editor of the journal Mission Round Table:  The Occasional Bulletin of OMF Mission Research. .

Thomas John

B D (Hons) (London)                    Dip Th (London)                          Dip R E (Singapore Bible College)

Thomas John previously served as a Singapore FES staffworker and was on the faculty of the Nairobi School of Theology, Kenya. He did further research in 19th Century English Theology at Regent College under J I Packer.  Thomas is an itinerant Bible Teacher and Explositor in Brethren Assemblies in Singapore and abroad.

Peter Teo

B Appl Sc (RMIT, Melbourne) BSc (Hons) MSc (Monash, Melbourne)                              MA in Cross-cultural Ministry,     M Th (Dallas Theological Seminary)

Peter served for a term in Japan through OMF. Currently He is the Associate Pastor (serving as Pastor-in-charge of mission) at Mt Carmel Bible Presbyterian Church in Singapore.