by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 28, 2026 | 2026, Following Jesus, Malaysia, Mentoring
Two Saturdays ago, on the 15th of August I attended the 56th Thanksgiving Dinner of the Graduates Christian Fellowship (GCF), Malaysia. I had been on staff with them in the mid-’90s. For some reason, I had not attended a similar event all these...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 21, 2026 | 2026, Mentoring, Spiritual Friendship
“You were one of my mentors.” Someone said that to me recently. I was surprised. We had worked together about 30 years ago, at a very difficult time in my life. He and the other leaders of the organisation I worked with, tried their best to help me...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 10, 2026 | 2026, Discipleship, Mentoring, Spiritual Friendship
Last year I had the joy of publishing Growing People Relationally, a book that tried to put together my main convictions about spiritual mentoring and discipleship after 40 years of ministry. This July, 22, I will be teaching a course by the same name for Trinity...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 6, 2026 | 2026, Mentoring, Spiritual Friendship
He paid for lunch. I jokingly asked him if lunch had exhausted his entertainment budget for the year. He said “no”, that he had paid for lunch out of his own pocket, not from some church budget. He wanted me to be clear that this lunch came from his pocket...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 1, 2025 | 2025, Leadership, Mentoring, Ministry & Training
As some of you may know I have phased out taking church camps from my ministry menu for now (read about it here). But I am open to taking some retreats for those in ministry. I have a burden for those on the front lines and if I can encourage them in some way, they...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Articles, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan
I am low-key excited about the launch of my next book, Growing People Relationally. Excited because the book deals with a subject that in many ways defines my ministry — spiritual mentoring. Low-key because I still struggle about inflicting another book on the world,...
