Dr. Paul Choo

Dr. Paul Choo was born in Singapore in 1947. He graduated as a Medical Doctor from the National University of Singapore (1971) and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity (honoris causa) from Bob Jones University (1998).

He started the Shenton Medical Group which became Singapore‘s largest medical group in the 80s. In 1995 he sold the medical group to Singapore’s largest hospital group to focus on pastoring the Gospel Light Christian Church (which he had started in 1987). Today GLCC is a growing church with a weekly (pre-pandemic) attendance of about 3000.
In 1995 he founded the Asia-Pacific Institute of Biblical Studies (APIBS) which was given permission by Bob Jones University to use their videotaped lectures and study materials. In 2008 APIBS changed its name to Asia-Pacific Institute of International Studies (APIIS) to reflect its expansion into other fields of practical ministry and leadership. So far APIBS/APIIS has trained over 4000 Asian leaders.
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In 2009, he founded Goducate (a non-profit organization that serves 8 Asian countries and employs about 250 full-time staff ) to help “needy Asians help themselves.”
He has taught/preached in hundreds of universities, bible schools, organizations, and churches in America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and Asia. His passion is to train leaders in Asia for the 21st century. For his contribution to Asia, he was selected by Channel News Asia in 2011 as one of the "Asians of the Year".