by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 25, 2025 | 2025, Discipleship, God's Love, Mentoring, Young Adult Ministry
What are some principles for ministering to young people? Recently I have been clearing out my books and of course I rediscovered some gems that I had forgotten about. One was Hear My Story (2003) by Dean Borgman. Although a bit dated it still contains much...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 25, 2024 | 2024, Discipleship, Intergenerational, Mentoring, Young Adult Ministry
Do you or someone you know need training in how to mentor young adults? Graceworks will be running an event to do this on November 23. (Details below.) There has been a chorus of calls to mentor the upcoming generations. But what is the best way to empower them? Large...
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 | Jan 5, 2024 | 2024, Christian Living, Discernment, Discipleship, Growth
A new year! Another opportunity to revisit the 4 Cs of life: Communion — our walk with God Community — our walk with others Co-labour — our participation in God's purposes Cadence — our commitment to live with a work-sabbath...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 1, 2023 | 2023, Discipleship, God's Will, Obedience & Faithfulness, Prayer, Rest & Busyness
The past four mornings I have had the joy and privilege of sharing the morning devotion for the Compassion International Asia leadership gathering. Yesterday morning was my last one and I shared about the Mary and Martha story (Luke 10:38–42 ). Rereading...
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 . ....
