<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Thank you Dharma </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Mary Kurian D'Souza via OE <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>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. </div><div id="m_-6142559227550832780AppleMailSignature">May their tribe increase </div><div id="m_-6142559227550832780AppleMailSignature">Mary<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 16-Nov-2017, at 2:26 PM, Dharmalingam Vinasithamby via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net" target="_blank">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><p class="m_-6142559227550832780ydp5f2cd77eMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear
Colleagues, </span></p>
<p class="m_-6142559227550832780ydp5f2cd77eMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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. </span></p>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Paula <div><br><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">"The meaning of life is to find your gift, the purpose of life is to give it away."</font></div><div style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="verdana, sans-serif">Pablo Picasso</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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