Meet Our Trainers

Rev Poon has been involved in Walk thru the Bible Ministry since 1988. Rev Poon has also served in four Presbyterian churches for over 30 years. He is passionate about teaching and training, as well as coaching and mentoring emerging leaders.

Rev Nicholas Choo holds a B.A. in Psychology with Trent University, and a M.Th from Ontario Theological Seminary in Canada. He is a certified Trainer for Walk Thru the Bible programmes. Since 1992, he has been conducting Walk Thru the Bible programmes, especially Kids in the Book. He is a much sought after speaker and trainer by churches, schools, corporate companies and charitable institutions.

Elder Jeffrey Goh has been training Teaching with Style for more than six years with churches and the public. He was an Elder from Bethesda (Bedok-Tampines) Church, as well as a trained teacher and a retired Major with the Singapore Armed Forces. He is now a Management Trainer and has done trainings for the Civil Service College, Singapore Institute of Management and the Management Development Institute of Singapore and many corporations like banks, insurance and real estate companies and statutory boards.

Rev Dr John S H Tay is currently the Dean of the Faculty of Biblical Studies in the Bethany International University (also known as the Bethany School of Missions). In 2004, he retired from St Andrew’s Cathedral, where he had been Dean and Vicar since 1996.

Dr Mary W J Tay has a Ph.D. in linguistics from Edinburgh and a M.Div (with the Board of Governors’ Prize for Overall proficiency and Prize for Theology) from Regent College. In 1989, at the peak of her career as a university professor in NUS, the Lord called her into the full-time Christian ministry and she has been serving Him ever since in various capacities – as full time missionary with OMF, and in preaching, and teaching the Bible in various churches in Singapore. She is an experienced language instructor who has taught different languages to hundreds of missionaries. She currently worships at St John’s- St Margaret’s Church and is an adjunct faculty at Bethany International University (a.k.a. Bethany School of Missions) where she teaches Hebrew and Greek. She has written three books in her retirement, How to Read the Bible, The Single’s Connection, and Grace and Gratitude.