by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 9, 2024 | 2024, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
They were the dynamic duo of Bible teaching. OMF missionary Dr Lucille Ramish had a PhD and brought big-picture, academic rigour to the teaching. Another OMF missionary, Mrs June Lane who hadn't had the privilege of graduate studies, brought home the...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 2, 2024 | 2024, Discipleship, Mentoring
“Spiritual mentoring is an intentional, relational process for helping people grow in Christlikeness by which one person becomes a spiritual guide for one or several others.” Two Saturdays ago I did a three-hour seminar on spiritual mentoring for a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 27, 2023 | 2023, Discipleship, Intergenerational, Mentoring, Young Adult Ministry
I have been teaching ministry to young adults for many years. One thing I always mention is that young adulthood is a time to revisit the big questions of life. . . . it is my conviction that the central work of young, emerging adulthood in the cycle of human life . ....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 29, 2023 | 2023, Discipleship, Intergenerational, Mentoring, Young Adult Ministry
One of the ministries that Graceworks has been committed to is equipping churches to mentor their young adults. These requests came because many churches were losing their young adults and wanted help to connect with them in such a way that helped them to navigate...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 20, 2023 | 2023, Discipleship, Mentoring
The best mentoring literature has consistently pointed out that good mentoring is always a mutual experience — both mentor and mentee grow as they journey together. This has definitely been my experience. I had suggested in an earlier article that this mutual...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 9, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Discipleship, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan, Spiritual Friendship
Have you heard of the term “reverse mentoring”? I first encountered it recently in a BBC article. Traditional notions of mentoring are top down: senior leaders guiding lower-level staff. But the tides are changing — and younger workers are now teaching up. Senior...
