by Bernice Lee | Oct 22, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Death & Grief, Family, Loving Others
Soo Inn often quips when asked about his mum’s former role as Chairperson of the Penang Baptist Church Board, “She was the best man for the job!”. Known throughout the church as Deaconess Ho (何执事), mum was the one you would go to when you wanted to...
by Soo-Inn Tan, Wei-Hao Ho | Oct 8, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Generations Project, Mentoring, Soo-Inn Tan
The Generations Project is an endeavour that Graceworks embarked on which seeks to improve the unity within our churches by increasing the empathy that the different generations have for one another. Having concluded our research into Millennial, Gen X and Baby...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Sep 24, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Church, Discipleship, Mentoring
Recently a church asked me to teach them about mentoring. I was happy and excited to do this of course, mentoring being one of the key foci of my ministry at this stage of my life. I was particularly excited by this invitation because I was told that they have never...
by Bernice Lee | Sep 3, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Graceworks, Spiritual Friendship
This evening (3 September 2021), we’ll see the online launch of Graceworks’ video series, The Friendship Way, as part of the Biblical Graduate School of Theology’s launch of their microlearning portal, Theology for Life. It’s significant that...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 20, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Christian Living, Mentoring, Preaching & Teaching
Some of the teachers that influenced me most at Regent College had done their doctoral work at Oxford University. So, sometime in my third year at Regent, I toyed with the idea of pursuing a doctorate at Oxford too. I ran the idea by John Nolland, a New Testament...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jul 30, 2021 | 2021, Articles, Prayer
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Before we talk more about prayer, we need to look at a prior question. What is the focus of your life? We need to be clear about that first before we find...