[Oe List ...] Death of Yap Kim Hao

[Paula Philbrook]

Thank you Dharma

On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Mary Kurian D'Souza via OE <
oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:

> Thank you Dharma for sharing the story of Bishop Yap Kim Hao's support of
> the Institute. We depended and still depend on people who were and are
> clearly "the establishment" to hold the space for us.
> May their tribe increase
> Mary
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 16-Nov-2017, at 2:26 PM, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via OE <
> oe at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Yap Kim Hao, the man who provided the Ecumenical Institute the umbrella
> for its activities in Malaysia in the 60s and 70s , died at the age of 88
> in Singapore this morning. He became the first Asian bishop of the
> Methodist church in Malaysia and Singapore in 1968.Those of us who worked
> in Malaysia and Singapore in those years will know how important his
> support was to us. Thanks to him, we were able to use Rev Kjell Knutsen’s
> residence as the KL Religious House. He was a progressive thinker in a
> denomination stuck in the two-storey universe. He spent the last few
> decades of his retirement in Singapore where he worked with various groups
> such as the Inter Religious Organisation and those fighting for gay rights.
> Dharmalingam
>
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Paula

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