Now a second year PhD student in Old Testament, Hiu Yan Mak began her journey with Wycliffe College right after receiving her MA from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and becoming a first-time mother.
Already armed with a BA in Religious Studies and an MDiv from universities and seminaries in Hong Kong, Hiu Yan found it fruitful to enter a graduate school of theology like Wycliffe that offers students chances, in and out of class, to encounter diversity in background and denominational traditions. “I’m eager to have conversations with different disciplines and traditions,” she says. “At Wycliffe, we can support each other and respond to God’s call together. Our aim is not only to achieve excellence in theology; we contribute and share our experiences and traditions to see how God has guided us. God can do everything in everyone’s journey. He works in our diversity.”
Hiu Yan feels God is calling her to work in theological education when she returns to Hong Kong, perhaps Old Testament studies at a seminary. And even though she has only been at Wycliffe for a year, her professors have become her role models: “I want to be a person who introduces a bigger world to my students while also being pastoral in the classroom and seminary setting.”d
