Engineer and economist launch A Rocha Singapore

Phillip Wang and his wife Gail Lien founded A Rocha Singapore, registered in September 2026 as the 23rd national member of the global A Rocha conservation organization. Wang, who chairs the group, described a personal theological shift that led to the founding. Raised in an evangelical tradition focused on evangelism and loving one's neighbor, Wang initially found his Christian worldview silent on creation care and environmental stewardship. Confronted by environmental crises—climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, ocean health decline—he began questioning why his faith offered no response to humanity's exploitation of the natural world. Through a conversation with Peter Harris in Singapore, Wang encountered a reframed theological understanding: that Scripture calls Christians to "work and keep" creation as stewards of God's gift, not merely to enjoy nature in isolation from responsibility. Reading widely in ecological theology and returning to Scripture with new awareness, Wang discovered passages he had previously read through an anthropocentric lens. Romans 8 on creation's groaning, the Psalms, Jesus' parables about soil and seeds, and Genesis 9's covenant extending to all living creatures reshaped his understanding. This theological reorientation moved beyond intellectual agreement to motivate practical action in founding A Rocha Singapore.

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Source: A Rocha International — https://arocha.org/en/the-conception-of-a-rocha-singapore/