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Ps Alvin Toh, SJSM’s new Vicar! Christy Or
— SOL: Share with us your conversion story. How did you come to know Christ as your Lord and Saviour? Ps Alvin: I grew up with Christian influence from my mother and my grandmother, whose example in daily Scripture reading and prayer impacted me much. It was also through her storytelling, while waiting for my school bus in my early years, that I first heard about the many heroes of our faith in the Old Testament. I ended up attending Glory Presbyterian Church where my grandmother had worshipped at, and it was during one of the Sunday School classes there as a 12-yearold that I remember raising my hand to receive Christ into my life and
committing to follow him. In a sense, you can say I’m a third-generation Christian, having seen how my grandmother (and her sisters) live out their faith. SOL: What was your working life experience like before the Lord called you into full-time ministry? Ps Alvin: I had received what I felt was God’s call into full-time ministry during my university years, and it was in the process of discerning with my church pastor and the Cru Singapore staff whom I was serving with as a student leader that I had come to ascertain God’s call for me specifically in pastoral ministry.
