by Soo-Inn Tan | May 8, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Church, Community, COVID-19, World Issues
This past Lunar New Year was special and will remain in my heart for a long, long time. Everyone was back — family from Canada, Australia, Malaysia and Singapore. Over great food we swapped stories, teased each other, and shared our struggles — we were family. One...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 1, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Soo-Inn Tan
Dear friends, I have decided to use the first ecommentary of each month to update folks about the work of Graceworks. This was supposed to be a breakout year for Graceworks. We had new staff joining us. And we were embarking on a major fund-raising programme to...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 24, 2020 | 2020, Articles, COVID-19, Death & Grief, Dependence on God, God, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, World Issues
A recent article in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) suggests that the discomfort we are feeling in the midst of the present Covid virus pandemic is grief. This makes sense since grief is our response to loss and we have lost so much. I am aware that different people...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 10, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Obedience & Faithfulness, Remembrance, Sacrifice, Soo-Inn Tan
Screengrab from YouTube Super spoilers ahead! Don’t read this if you plan to watch the last episode of Picard and haven’t done so. GEORGE TOWN: Former director of the Third World Network and The Star columnist Martin Khor Kok Peng has died. He had been ill for...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Mar 27, 2020 | 2020, Articles, Church, Corporate Worship, COVID-19, Small Groups, World Issues
Those of you who know me will know how I have long championed small groups meeting in homes as the preferred platform to do church. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I encountered this article in mainstream media, the Singapore Sunday Times. “Christians: Return of...
